By The Editors
For the second time within weeks, a new study has focused attention on the central role a small number of firearms stores in supplying guns that are later used in the commission of crimes.

By Lee A. Daniels
If, by one definition, politics is the art of compromise, many of those running for office in this election aren’t politicians.

By The Editors
Because many of the articles in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education have a quality of timeless importance, TheDefendersOnline.com asked and received permission from The Journal’s editors to reprint in full an article from its pages every week .

By Theodore Cross
In August 1981, a young black student, Drew Brown, wrote in The Pittsburgh Courier, “I went to college because my daddy gave me two choices. One choice was college, the other was death.” Today, the black teenager’s hyperbole comes about as close as you can to perfect truth.

By Martin Kilson
Isabel Wilkerson’s, The Warmth of Other Suns, adds another important book to the great tradition of serious writing on the interaction between American society’s white supremacist practices, on the one hand, and, on the other, the migration of black American citizens out of the viciously racist South to the North and West.

By TaRessa Stovall
Voting is the foundation of our democracy, but barriers to this fundamental right—including burdensome, government-issued photo identification requirements, the elimination of voter names from rolls, and even blatant misinformation—disenfranchise thousands of minority voters each election cycle.

By Lee A. Daniels
Explorations of the interaction between “culture” and persistent poverty are apparently back in vogue among scholars, policy wonks and legislators looking for ways to reduce the enduring high rate of poverty – now above 26 percent – among black Americans.

John  Hithon believed his supervisor’s failure to promote him resulted from racial prejudice and filed an employment discrimination claim against Tyson Foods, Inc. in 1996. Part of the evidence backing Hithon’s claim was testimony confirming his white boss’s habit of referring to him, an African-American man, using the derogatory term “boy.”

By The Editors
The federal government will pay Native American farmers and ranchers $760 million in damages and debt relief to settle claims that they were subjected to a pervasive and enduring discrimination by agents of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

By Lee A. Daniels
The popular belief that poverty and joblessness exist only in the inner cities and not in the suburbs is being overthrown by a new reality. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, the nation’s lengthening economic crisis is expanding the reach of poverty into America ’s suburbs.