By Kevin Eason
Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and Illustrator from NJ. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more. Kevin’s work features include: TVOne, NABJ, WBLS_107.5FM, EURweb and various newspapers & magazines throughout the country.

By Doug Miller
Two subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. (AIG), the “ too big to fail” insurer that received one of the biggest slices of the federal financial services bailout, will pay more than $6 million to settle allegations that they discriminated against African Americans by charging them higher fees for mortgages transacted during a period from 2003 to 2006.

By Jackie Jones
Gay and lesbian couples are now able to marry legally in the nation’s capital. A large part of making that happen came from a direct campaign to win the support of the city’s African-American residents, long believed to be opposed to such a law.

By Stacey Patton
First, I’d like to thank members of the Academy for not awarding a slew of Oscars to what New York Press film critic Armond White called “the biggest con job of the year” –Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire

Although James Waller was paroled in 1993, he continued fighting to prove his innocence for the rape conviction for which he had served a decade in prison. Waller was found guilty based mainly on a single eyewitness identification from the child victim, despite having a strong alibi. After saving money for DNA testing, he was excluded as a match for hairs found at the crime scene, but it took almost five more years for further DNA tests, obtained with the assistance of the Innocence Project, to fully clear him. Waller was pardoned three years ago this week.

By The Editors
Friday, March 5, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) marked the 45th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma in the spirit the marchers of that day would have appreciated—by working with the citizens of Selma and other communities to ensure the voting rights won that day remain secure.

By Maynard Eaton
The nation’s top lawman cleared his busy schedule on March 1, to travel to Atlanta to attend the funeral of Jacob Henderson, Jr., a pioneering military attorney during the 1960s who became an expert on international travel and a leading Atlanta businessman.

By Stacey Patton
Late last month my mentor, the great Pulitzer-prize winning historian David Levering-Lewis, invited me to be his special guest at the 100th anniversary celebration of the NAACP’s Crisis Magazine. A rapt audience gathered inside the New York Hilton Hotel’s Trianon Ballroom to hear Lewis and current Crisis editor Jabari Asim have a conversation about the magazine’s early years and its first intrepid editor-in-chief, W.E.B. Du Bois.

By Jackie Jones
The Center for Responsible Lending…has laid out what the new credit card policy legislation that went into effect Feb. 21 really will and won’t do.

By John Payton
The death on February 28 of Theodore Lamont Cross deprives the world and American society and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. of an extraordinary counselor and friend.