The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether the lawsuit of female employees of Wal-Mart pressing a sex-discrimination claim against the retail giant could go to trial as a class-action.

On March 28, 2011, the nation’s premiere civil rights organizations, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the NAACP, including its Florida State Conference of Branches, and Advancement Project, together urged Florida Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to comply with the Voting Rights Act by submitting newly proposed changes to the state’s rules governing voter registration for persons with felony convictions to the federal government for approval.

By TaRessa Stovall
How is it that the folks at LifeAlways, the ultra-right-wing anti-choice militants who are attacking black women for allegedly having more abortions than anyone else, are suddenly so invested in protecting the black population of America?

The number of blacks taking academically challenging Advanced Placement courses in high school has surged over the past two decades. The bad news is that the racial scoring gap on Advanced Placement tests continues to be large and, in fact, has increased in recent years.

By The Editors
A new study released last week and the recent rejection by the Arizona Senate of proposed legislation as harsh as the controversial measure it enacted last year may represent a critical turn in the furious debate over illegal immigration.

By Lee A. Daniels
More and more, it’s become apparent that America has a double-sided criminal justice system

By Stacey Patton
In this climate, when employers can be especially choosy about whom they hire, and some major companies appear to be engaging in a discriminatory practice that hurts the unemployed, a disproportionate number of them black.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Inmates in prisons and jails, even minor offenders, are finding they not only have to do the time, but they have to pay—for booking, rent, routine medical care and even electronic monitoring once they are released

By TaRessa Stovall
Why a personal instead of an official apology for the lack of justice in a Jim Crow attack whose victim is still alive…and waiting?

By Lee Daniels
I wondered for several days what was so familiar about the verbal dust-up between two of the most prominent collegiate basketball stars of the 1990s, Jalen Rose, of the University of Michigan, and Grant Hill, of Duke University.