By Erica Ferrari
The city will pay out more than $170,000 to settle with nine people who claimed they were illegally stopped and frisked by police at city housing projects.

By Doug Miller
African Americans may find themselves in the middle of a potentially devastating financial squeeze play, disproportionately pressed from one side by foreclosures tied to the ongoing U.S. mortgage crisis and constricted on the other by growing government demands for concessions from black-heavy public employee unions.

In 1991, Richard Johnson was arrested in connection to the rape and robbery of a University of Chicago graduate student. His conviction was overturned on March 8, 1996. He had spent four years in prison for a crime of which he was innocent

By Lee A. Daniels
Perhaps it’s that they can’t help themselves.

I’m referring to the continuing manifestations of some Americans’ newly-developed psychoses about the heritage and upbringing of the President of the United States – now that the President is a black American of mixed heritage.

On Tuesday, March 1, LDF filed a friend-of-court brief in the Supreme Court of the United States supporting the plaintiffs in a historic, nationwide, sex-discrimination lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Stores, Dukes v. Wal-Mart. In its brief, LDF asserted the negative consequences of accepting Wal-Mart’s position, which imposes heightened hurdles for victims of discrimination to clear before they can proceed as a class.

By George E. Curry
After listening to the governor of Wisconsin and financially illiterate journalists, it’s easy to gain the impression that city, county, state and federal employees are overpaid slouches who benefit from hefty pension and generous retirement benefits funded by unsuspecting taxpayers.

Such a conclusion, however, is grossly inaccurate.

By George E. Curry
The showdown between public unions and the governor of Wisconsin is a drama likely to be replayed in other budget-challenged states over the next few months and may determine whether American unions rebound or become a fading fixture of the past.

By Vern E. Smith
Wharlest Jackson Jr. is a big man, well over six feet tall and 200 pounds. But to listen to him speak of his namesake, Wharlest Jackson Sr., is to witness the strapping adult reduced to the weeping eight-year-old boy who rode his bicycle to the scene of a powerful car bomb in the spring of 1967 in Natchez, Miss. and discovered that the victim was his own father.

This week, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) requested leave to file a friend-of-the-court brief opposing further appellate review in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).

By Lee A. Daniels
African Americans as a group continue to be battered worse than any other Americans by the nation’s three-year-long-and-counting economic crisis. In both stand-alone and comparative terms, from the top to the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, they’ve suffered a severe loss of the little wealth they possessed and have almost no protection against a future economic shock.