By Lee A. Daniels
Given the fresh proof that the woeful neglect of American history in the schools has helped produce an astonishing ignorance of basic details of American history, it’s clearly foolish to expect that many today would recognize the name of Richard H. Poff.

Perhaps no predominantly white institution of higher learning in the United States has a richer history of racial integration than Oberlin College in Ohio.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
Some Congressional Black Caucus members plan to tour the country as part of a job fair tour and talk back with citizens of their communities, to discuss the problems that are looming due to our economy.

By The Editors
A federal commission’s approval of new sentencing guidelines could result in significantly reduced sentences for as many as 12,000 federal inmates now serving time for crack-cocaine offenses.

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down a Michigan ballot initiative that unconstitutionally limited access to opportunity at the state’s public universities and in other contexts. Passed in 2006 and commonly known as “Proposal 2,” the initiative was a deliberate effort to prohibit precisely the types of race-conscious admissions policies that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) as constitutionally permissible approaches to ensuring pathways to leadership in our nation’s civic, political, and economic life.