By Lee A. Daniels
They’ve discovered – again – that baseball really is just like America.
That’s the meaning I took from Thursday’s New York Times story pointing out glaring racial disparity in the game between the positions of first-base and third-base coach. At the first-base position, twenty of the thirty coaches are of African-American, Latino-American or Asian descent. Of the thirty third-base coaches, twenty-three are white, three are black and four are Latino.

Six years ago this week, Ryan Matthews was exonerated after spending five years on Louisiana’s death row for a murder he didn’t commit.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
It was five years ago this month Katrina left a historic mess in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The  destruction of the hurricane,  been called one of the worst natural disasters in American history, was documented by filmmaker Spike Lee in his 2005 Emmy-award winning film “When the Levees Broke: A requiem in four parts.”

By Doug Miller
An unexpectedly robust mail-in response from American households wound up saving the U.S. Census Bureau nearly a quarter of the money it had budgeted this fiscal year to conduct the 2010 Census, according to Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and other federal officials.

By The Editors
Has America forgotten there’s a Great recession going on? That more than 14 million workers who recently had jobs now don’t? And that more than 44 percent of them have been out of work for six months or longer – a circumstance which has laid the foundation for a permanent jobless class numbering in the millions?

By Doug Miller
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says it has concluded reinvestigations into 56 of 109 cold cases involving Civil Rights-related murders dating back to the 1940s, and acknowledges that for a variety of reasons – including the deaths of suspects and witnesses and the destruction of evidence – most of them are unlikely to result in prosecutions.

By Lee A. Daniels
The words practically leapt out of the Sunday New York Times article on the suddenly growing opposition in some cities and towns to proposals by Muslim Americans to build or expand their mosques.

By Stacey Patton
When school begins this Wednesday, 267 of Biloxi’s top-performing elementary students will be attending a new school less than a mile down the road. But some parents and city residents feel that move will threaten the student’s continued high scholastic achievement.

By The Editors
Elena Kagan, the United States Solicitor General and former Dean of Harvard Law School, was confirmed by the Senate Thursday as the nation’s newest Justice of the Supreme Court.

By The Editors
Josh Civin, an Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, delivered the oral argument supporting the University’s race-conscious admissions plan on behalf of LDF and the Black Student Alliance at UT Austin.