By Kenneth J. Cooper
New federal research shows that African American and Hispanic students are being shortchanged, literally, when it comes to school budgets, in most districts with diverse enrollments.

By George E. Curry Rev. Joseph Lowery is a civil rights icon. He participated in all of the epic civil rights battles of his day, including the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, the violent showdown with “Bull” Connor in Birmingham, the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the famous 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. He was [...]

By The Editors
The U.S. is facing “a silent mental health epidemic” as joblessness lengthens and deepens for millions of once-gainfully employed Americans, a new study is warning.

By Colby Hamilton of WNYC.ORG
The New York Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in the lawsuit to overturn a law passed by the 2010 Democratic legislative majority that would count prison inmates in the communities they are from, instead of in the towns and counties where they’re incarcerated.

By Lee A. Daniels
“Niggerhead” was far from being the only place in Texas or many other states in the South and North that whites felt driven to dishonor with slurs against black Americans. What that compulsion signified – how profoundly saturated with anti-black racism America was – is the point that stands at the center of this controversy.

By Lee A. Daniels
Herman Cain, fresh from his surprise victory over Texas Governor Rick Perry in the Florida Republican Party straw poll, charged on CNN Wednesday that “African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.”

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The evolution of multiculturalism has not just been about acceptance, but about leveling the playing field.