Solid improvements in black student college completion rates have occurred at most of the nation’s highest-ranked colleges and universities and at state-operated flagship universities. This is also true at a large number of historically black colleges and universities.

Six years ago this week, Michael Anthony Williams was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. He had served over 23 years of a life sentence for a rape that post-conviction DNA testing proved he didn’t commit.

By The Editors
A Supreme Court ruling last week has made it easier for prisoners to sue for access to DNA evidence that might prove their innocence – but not by much.

By The Editors
Florida Governor Rick Scott and the state’s top Republican officials who comprise the Florida Clemency Board Wednesday voted to toughen requirements for ex-inmates who were convicted of a felony to regain their right to vote.

By Lee A. Daniels
Now, I see the purveyors of “manufactured paranoia” think it’s much better to spread their poisonous anger – to stoke a scapegoating frenzy – among several targets at once, the better, they think, to enable them to “take back” America.

By The Editors
Federal authorities have arrested a Washington state resident with an alleged long history of posting to a white-supremacist website and charged him with attempting to bomb the Martin Luther King Day Parade in Spokane, Washington on January 17.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Affirmative action is usually considered a creation of the 1960s, when the civil rights movement culminated in the enactment of a series of federal laws. But the term “affirmative action” was in common usage for at least two decades before then in the civil rights community, laying the groundwork for the systematic efforts to assure a larger place for racial-ethnic minorities and women in employment, higher education and public contracting.

By The Editors
The movement to abolish the death penalty recorded a significant advance this week when Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation abolishing capital punishment.

A new survey shows that single black women have median wealth of only $100. This is a tiny fraction of the median wealth of single white women.

Civil Rights Groups Urge Florida Board Of Executive Clemency Not To Further Restrict Voting Rights