By The Editors
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued the Kaplan Higher Education Corporation, charging that it has used credit history reports to discriminate against black job applicants.

By Lee A. Daniels
“What kind of human being could set another man on fire?

This was the question that Stanley Nelson, a reporter for The Concordia Sentinel, a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana Delta town of Ferriday, says first spurred him to exhaustively investigate the 1964 murder of a black Delta businessman, allegedly by the Ku Klux Klan.

This week marks the third anniversary of Joseph White’s exoneration in Nebraska.

He served 19 years of a life sentence in Nebraska for a crime in which he had no involvement.

Project Vote and NAACP Legal Defense Fund put Secretary of State Tom Schedler on notice of Voting Rights violations

By The Editors
Have you noticed that it’s getting difficult to keep up with whom to blame for America’s ills?

By The Editors
These are the Americans who are disappearing. Their jobs have ceased to exist, and so – because work anchors most people to the civic life of their local communities and the larger society – they, too, are effectively ceasing to exist, vanishing like dust in the wind.

White families with lower levels of education tend to have smaller families than their white counterparts with higher levels of education. For blacks, the opposite is true. Black families with higher levels of education tend to have smaller families than blacks with low levels of education.

By Lee A. Daniels
Two high profile events of this week underscore the wisdom of the warning the great historian Barbara W. Tuchman gave in 1982 to those who would “practice” the craft of writing history.

“Leaving things out because they do not fit,” she wrote in her book, Practicing History: Selected Essays, “is writing fiction, not history.”

By The Editors
On January 6, 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first African Americans to enroll at the University of Georgia, one of the significant milestones on the road to the climactic civil rights victories of the mid-1960s.

By The Editors
Amid the surprising display last month of productive bipartisan cooperation between the Obama administration and the Democrats and Republicans in Congress, there was one glaring failure: The Senate rejected the DREAM Act, legislation which proposed to grant citizenship at the end of a ten-year period to children of undocumented immigrants who successfully earned post-secondary degrees or entered military service.