By George E. Curry
Reacting to a circus-like atmosphere created by two-time presidential flirt Donald Trump and the news media acting as willing accomplices, Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate on Wednesday in an effort to end the manufactured controversy over whether he was born in Hawaii and therefore qualified to serve as president of the United States

By Stacey Patton
The fact that our President had to make such a move to prove his legitimacy illustrates once again that we are not the so-called post-racial America that some would like to claim we are.

By Lee A. Daniels
The death in February 2010 of Theodore Lamont Cross deprived the world of a man, as Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel said in tribute, “of remarkable achievements in several different careers.”

One of those careers was as the founder and publisher for 17 years of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, a gold mine of information about the status of African Americans in higher education – and, in broader terms, of their status in American society as a whole

By Kenneth J. Cooper
The rap on corner stores in low-income, minority neighborhoods is they’re high on prices at the cash register and low on variety on the shelves, except for candies, snacks and just about everything else that’s bad to eat.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence.

Few Americans know that many groups of low-income whites have a college graduation rate that is below the nationwide college graduation rate of blacks. This is strong evidence that low college completion rates of blacks is due to a host of social factors.

This week, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF), Project Vote, and New Orleans attorney Ronald Wilson filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of the state conference of the NAACP and several private individuals, alleging that Louisiana is disenfranchising minority and low-income voters by failing to offer them the opportunity to register to vote as required by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

By TaRessa Stovall
May 1961: Between May and December , 436 black and white civil rights activists, many of them students, known as Freedom Riders rode more than 60 bus rides to fight segregated travel facilities in the South and raise the nation’s consciousness about racial injustice.

The Civil War began in 1861. It didn’t end until 1965. By Lee A. Daniels “Why We’re Still Fighting the Civil War,” the cover of the April 18 issue of Time Magazine declared, marking the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter that began the conflagration. Time’s editors then posted an additional, poignant comment: [...]

By Lee A. Daniels and Stacey Patton
Another day. Another outrageous example of how deeply the election of a black American of mixed parentage has unhinged some conservative white Americans.