By Kenneth J. Cooper
Already, Deval Patrick is making history by being the first African American to seek reelection as a governor, in Massachusetts. His chances of setting another milestone as the first to win a second term as a state’s chief executive in November look pretty good.

By Lee A. Daniels
The Muslim-American residents of Murfreesboro, Tennessee have discovered this summer they’re not as “American” as they perhaps thought they were.
Not in the hearts and minds of some of their non-Muslim neighbors, anyway.
And so, they now find themselves on the other side – the bad side – of the “tipping point.”
In terms of [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
Today, American society is flooded with virulent, racially-driven images and rhetoric hurled against the President, saturated with the demonizing of undocumented Latino immigrants and calls for scrapping the constitutional protection all children born in America should enjoy, and degraded by cynical assertions that guilt-by-association is valid principle to apply to people who are not white

By Theodore M. Shaw
He brought an energy and commitment to his work that was rooted in his unabashed commitment to improving the lives of African-American people.

By Doug Miller
Lending institutions in California have foreclosed on African-American and Latino homeowners nearly twice as much as white property owners, according to a new study by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), indicating that banks likely targeted those ethnic groups to receive more expensive and financially toxic subprime mortgages mortgages during the decade of the housing boom.

By The Editors
Jimmie Lee Jackson died at 26 on February 18, 1965 in the melee that erupted when Alabama state police brutally set upon nonviolent protest marchers who had just come from a mass meeting on voting rights in a Marion church.

By Lee A. Daniels
What is the meaning and the scale of justice for this special group of Americans – the guilty until proven innocent?

Today a federal court in Washington, DC, prevented Louisiana from continuing to utilize a discriminatory formula as part of the federally-funded “Road Home” Program, which was designed by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) to aid homeowners in their efforts to rebuild in the wake of devastating damage resulting from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

By George E. Curry
Medical trials now underway in the very region most ravaged by the virus hold the best prospect of finally controlling the disease for which there is no known cure.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Most people are astonished when I tell them the Cherokees owned slaves. Schools don’t teach about the slaveholding of the Cherokee and four other tribes who, most ironically, became known as the “Five Civilized Tribes.”