By The Editors
The bullying swagger of Michael Daragjati, once apparently his perverse badge of honor, was nowhere in evidence earlier this week as he sat in Brooklyn’s federal district court.

Donald L. Hollowell, a leading civil rights advocate in the state of Georgia during the 1950s and 1960s, died this past December of heart failure in Atlanta. He was 87 years old.

By Lee A. Daniels
Last week, during a ceremony saturated with pomp and circumstance and profound historical resonance, Carl E. Clark, a Navy veteran, was awarded a medal by the Secretary of the Navy for the kind of wartime devotion to duty – saving the lives of hundreds of his fellow sailors – Hollywood makes movies about.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
To the list of issues on which Mitt Romney has changed positions—gay rights, universal health care and abortion rights—add affirmative action, that byproduct of the civil rights movement.

By Deborah Siegel
A new study warns that a Federal proposal to require a minimum 20 percent down payment of prospective of prospective homebuyers would substantially hurt the chances of many African Americans and Latinos to get such mortgages.

By Lee A. Daniels
So, it’s clear now what really drives the crowd – or is “mob” a better word?—who show up at Republican Party debates, right?

Because black students are at least three times as likely to come from poor families as are white students, one would expect that blacks on average would be more likely than white students to attend schools closer to home. But just the opposite is true.

By The Editors
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Monday continued the Obama administration’s strong defense of voting rights and assertion that so-called voter ID laws are a threat to those rights.

By Tanea Lunsford
Having an incarcerated parent often means being part of a family where hiding the truth is a way of life.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia