Zero-tolerance rules, once hailed as the panacea to an explosion of serious student misbehavior in schools, are now recognized more and more as part of the problem, not the solution.

By George E. Curry
Although African-Americans represent only 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, they represent almost half of all new HIV infections and nearly 50 percent of AIDS-related deaths.

By The Editors
Black alumni of Yale’s Class of 1970 are dying at a starkly disproportionate rate. What’s race got to do with it?

Today there are more than 33,000 African Americans teaching full-time at colleges and universities in the United States. But the progress into faculty ranks is so slow that, at the current rate, it will take about a century and a half for the percentage of African-American faculty to reach parity with the percentage of blacks in the nation’s population.