By TaRessa Stovall
Like an embattled boxer returning to the ring, the question of whether the nation’s first black biracial president will pardon the first black heavyweight champion for the crime of interracial dating is back for another round.

By Lee A. Daniels
Determined not to let morality or the truth stand in the way of a Big Lie, the Sons of Confederate Veterans are continuing their celebration of the founding of the doomed, treasonous Confederacy 150 years ago.

By Stacey Patton
A new billboard placed in SoHo near one of three Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in New York City blared – “The most dangerous place for an African American is the womb.”

Once again, this year we look at a statistical profile comparing the first-year class at America’s historically black colleges and universities to American college freshmen generally.

By David Levering Lewis
An eminent historian maintains there would be no Obama presidency without the Du Bois legacy.

By TaRessa Stovall
A quick round-up of recent education stories offers a glimpse into the complex stew of progress, setbacks and conflicting news that represents race and learning in America today.

By Stacey Patton
Washington whipped his slaves, threatened to sell them to the West Indies where slaves were often worked to death on sugar plantations, and he had they teeth pulled from their heads to give him comfort.

In 1988, Herman Atkins was convicted of the rape and robbery of a woman in the southern California shoe store where she worked. He was released from prison in February 2000. Having served 12 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Herman Atkins has been free 11 years this week.

By Lee A. Daniels and F. Finley McRae
A deliberate refusal to acknowledge the reality right before their eyes has always been fundamental to the maintenance of white-racist thought and behavior in its many guises.

By Stacey Patton
Tonight the groundbreaking investigative documentary series “The Injustice Files” airs on the Investigative Discovery Channel at 9 pm. The first show, “Secrets of Natchez,” investigates the murder of Wharlest Jackson, a civil rights activist and devoted father of five who became a target of one of the most virulent Ku Klux Klan chapters in the South because he took a job that white racists deemed fit only for white men.