By Stacey Patton
The St. James Dispensary Riot of 1897 has been given no attention in the history books and most people have probably never heard anything about it.

By Lee A. Daniels
Black America has pneumonia, and the fact that it’s winter has nothing to do with it.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Despite an unusual state law requiring judges to consider racial disparity when deciding whether to try juveniles as adults, Missouri prosecutes a disproportionate number of black youth accused of serious crimes in regular courts, where they can be sentenced to prison alongside hardened criminals.

By TaRessa Stovall
The growth of multi-racial people and their assertion that their Census choices should reflect their presence in the population is presenting an interesting quandary.

On January 28, 2011, Mumia Abu-Jamal retained the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) to represent him in the ongoing appeal of his capital murder conviction and death sentence.

Donte L. Booker was arrested in Ohio in 1987 in connection with an incident involving a toy gun. He served 15 years for a crime of which he was innocent.

One of the arguments used by opponents of affirmative action in college and graduate school admissions is that institutions of higher education are doing black students a big disfavor by admitting them to colleges and graduate schools where it is assumed they cannot compete.

By Stacey Patton
Analysts have said that high unemployment in Egypt, and Tunisia, which forced its president out of the country last month, has been a ticking time bomb that created this televised revolution. There have been numerous signs indicating that the U.S. is facing a similar economic Armageddon.

By TaRessa Stovall
When Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single black mother living in public housing in Akron, Ohio, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for sending her daughters to the Copley-Fairlawn school district outside of her educational jurisdiction, the issue of what parents—especially black, low-income parents—will do to get their children a better education burst into the national consciousness.

By Lee A. Daniels
How is it possible to discuss the multiple challenges to autocracy and repression elsewhere during the last half century without at least mentioning the one that had to be waged right here in “the land of the free?”