By George E. Curry
A widening gap between the mega-rich and the rest of society, documented in a recent congressional study, is likely to create even larger economic disparities between African-Americans and Whites.

By Lee A. Daniels
Their paths crossed for only a few moments that September day in 1957: Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan, two teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas who were supposed to be on their way to school.

By Lowanna M. Owens
We were a “Bill Cosby” family, educated blacks with class and standards. We were middle class, lived in the suburbs outside of Los Angeles, and had a loving extended family. All was good. Or so I thought.

The September/October newsletter of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council presents a vitally important exchange of views on the much-discussed issue of implicit bias.

This past July in Cincinnati, a black woman, Vashti Murphy McKenzie, knelt among a circle of nine bishops and elders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. One by one the church officials placed their hands atop her crown. This “laying of hands” is the installation ceremony for a new bishop, one of a group of 20 leaders who establish AME Church policy.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
For a long time in this country the poor have felt like they were written off.

By Lee A. Daniels
Alabama, whose Republican–dominated legislature in June enacted the nation’s most restrictive law targeting undocumented immigrants — in order, they said, to preserve those and other low-wage jobs for American citizens – is discovering: you can’t.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Only eight states publicly report the race and ethnicity of juveniles transferred to adult courts for criminal prosecution, the Justice Department has found, and it’s no wonder that more states don’t. Those that do are sending disproportionate numbers of African-American or Hispanic teenagers to face the possibility of the most serious punishment that a juvenile offender can face—getting locked up in a state prison alongside hardened adult criminals.

By John Payton
Editor’s Note: These remarks were delivered by John Payton, President and Director Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Monday to conference of the National Housing Law Project in Washington.

By Lee A. Daniels
The words allegedly spoken by a New York City police officer accused of illegally arresting a black New York City resident – “fried another nigger,” – are shocking.