Is bad news better left unsaid, or should JBHE continue to publish unfavorable data that feeds racism in the United States?

By Lee A. Daniels When is a painting not just a painting – but a mirror? That’s the question which leaps out of the current controversy over a painting that President Obama secured to hang in a well-trafficked corridor outside the Oval Office that first appeared forty-seven years ago in one of the most widely-read [...]

By The Editors
The New Jersey Supreme Court this week ordered sweeping changes in the way eyewitness identification is used and evaluated in the state’s criminal courts.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Advocates of the Cherokee Freedmen are demanding the federal government intervene after the tribe’s highest court ruled descendants of former slaves in the Cherokee Nation are not entitled to tribal citizenship under an 1866 treaty.

While serving as university preacher and professor of spiritual discipline and resources at Boston University’s School of Theology, Thurman was mentor to a young divinity student named Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Dale Ho and Peter Wagner via the LA Daily News
Prison-based gerrymandering is no trivial matter. There are more than 2 million incarcerated people in America, a total population larger than that of 15 individual states, and larger than our three smallest states combined. If they were a state, the incarcerated population would qualify for five votes in the Electoral College. Where they are counted has tremendous implications for the shape of our democracy.

Prison-based gerrymandering distorts the meaning and reality of democracy and undermines efforts to build fairness into the current redistricting process.

By Sylvester Monroe
Last week, the city’s schools reopened under a lingering cloud of controversy surrounding a state report released last month by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal charging Atlanta school teachers, principals and area superintendents with cheating on the 2009 Georgia CRCT (Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests) achievement tests.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Charter schools are moving into the suburbs, and one of the first in Illinois outside of a big city is near Chicago in a predominately black suburb, where the school’s presence has heightened class tensions and raised questions about educational equities.

By Marlon Peterson
My brother was definitely not my keeper… He was never the big brother that would give his little brother the tough love most big brothers took pride in. Hell, there was no love.