By George E. Curry
In the 1960s, we had the War on Poverty. In 2011, we’re now seeing a War on People Who Live in Poverty.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
Obesity was common in Marlia Fambrough’s family. At gatherings in their native Cleveland, sizable portions of greens mixed with pork, and beef entrees helped some members of the close-knit group maintain their girth. But in 2005, Fambrough’s 49 year old mother suffered a massive stroke.

By Stacey Patton
Last week the Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its prison population because dangerous overcrowding has created unsanitary and unsafe conditions constituting “cruel and unusual punishment.”

By Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Many of those who profess to want change “don’t care nothing about poor people … If they had poor people at heart, they could make it better.” Ethel Mae Mathews, president of the Atlanta chapter of the National Welfare Rights Organization, made this statement in 2000, after decades of community-based activism in Atlanta.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of Douglas Warney’s exoneration in New York. Warney, who suffers from mental illness, falsely confessed to murder after a 12-hour police interrogation.

By Stacey Patton My Dear Sisters, Over the past week or so I’ve read many tweets, Facebook postings, blog rants, and online petitions in response to Psychology Today’s posting of a ‘scientific’ study – “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women” by Satoshi Kanazawa. The reaction to Kanazawa’s armchair psychobabble which was [...]

Data shows that 34 percent of black civil war veterans in 1890 became business entrepreneurs after the war and 3 percent became professionals.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an order requiring a federal trial court to further review an agreement that settled an employment discrimination lawsuit against the New York City Board of Education.

This week, top civil rights organizations filed a motion in New York Supreme Court asking to intervene to help defend New York’s new law allocating people in prison to their home communities for redistricting and reapportionment.