This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of a class of over 6,000 qualified African-American firefighter applicants who were unfairly denied the opportunity to work for the Chicago Fire Department.

One explanation for the continuing earnings gap between blacks and whites appears to be the fact that whites on average graduate from college with better educational credentials than those achieved by African Americans.

By Lee A. Daniels
Why is a symbol of a treasonous undertaking, led by men who betrayed their oaths as elected officials and military officers of the United States, still honored by those who claim to pledge allegiance to the United States of America?

By Stacey Patton
On Monday, the New Jersey State Assembly approved a measure that will allow adults who were adopted as infants to get a copy of their birth certificate showing the names of their biological parents.

By George E. Curry
Whatever you plan to do next Monday night (May 16), make sure you are home in front of the television or have set your recorder to tape Freedom Riders, the excellent PBS documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. And make sure children, related or unrelated, watch the documentary with you

By Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
For nearly two decades, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. has been invited to speak at a Sunday service of the historic Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel on the campus of Howard University. Jordan, who graduated from Howard University Law School in 1960, has often described Rankin Chapel as one of the touchstones of his life. Last Sunday, his speech there concerned a different topic, black Americans’ New Talented Tenth, and, with his permission, we reprint it here.

By Stacey Patton
Our quiet response speaks to our long-held understanding of what struggle is – our domestic struggle as a marginalized community is ongoing. We know that the war is not over and that neutralizing Osama bin Laden was a goal but only as part of a war that is not over.

By: Malcolm Maclachlan
Most of the nation still operates under the system that counts prisoners as residents of the areas where they are incarcerated.

By Lee A. Daniels
If you think the Birthers have been chastened into silence, think again – and look to the past.

By George E. Curry
Judging by his critics, Obama won’t have support even when he accomplished something George W. Bush couldn’t.