By Martin Kilson
Peter Gomes was a gracious, loving, and generous soul, and the Harvard community will miss him.

By Kristen Clarke
What I appreciated most about Dr. Marable was that he rejected the presumption that academics need to maintain a social distance from activists. He was not at all interested in being a scholar who merely produced scholarship high in the ivory towers of academia.

By: Jonathan Shihadeh
The “school to prison pipeline” symposium was held at the Wayne State Law School on March 25. The event focused on a process that is used by some public schools to expel minority students by reprimanding them harshly for minor offences

By The Editors
Two New Orleans police officers were sentenced Thursday to long prison terms for their roles in the macabre September 2005 killing of an unarmed civilian, Henry Glover.

By Doug Miller
A new idea now being widely touted by conservatives as a way to help ease states’ dire fiscal problems – reducing the number of weeks the jobless can receive unemployment benefits – seems to some employment analysts to be a prescription for social disaster.

By Stacey Patton and TaRessa Stovall
The old saying, “I heard it through the grapevine” has new meaning in the age of social media and blogging.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
The Supreme Court figured it had done the right thing when it decided a decade ago that defendants accused of capital crimes could only be sentenced to death by a jury, not a judge. Did the seven justices in the majority know that death-by-jury is tainted with racism at its core? Or maybe they didn’t care.

By Lee A. Daniels
John L. Cashin, Jr., whose civil rights activism in the middle decades of the twentieth century, helped to transform the South, cannot be called a Founding Father