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

On Friday, LDF filed a “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Department of Health & Human Services v. Florida. The brief urges the Court to uphold the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the landmark health care legislation passed by Congress in 2010, which has been challenged on constitutional grounds.

By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Editor’s Note — On this weekend especially devoted to celebrating the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., it is worth re-reading the remarks he made in accepting the award and then the lecture he gave the following day nearly a half century ago. King’s identification of the “spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man’s chief expresses itself in [the] three larger problems … [of] racial injustice, poverty, and war” resound largely in our present moment. They underscore again how large and great and timeless was the mission he gave his life to.

By Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

By Lee A. Daniels
What Negro Americans faced then was a fierce discrimination that confined them literally and figuratively to a very small corner of American life. Entire categories of jobs, or levels of jobs were off-limits to blacks, and there was virtually no protection for the endemic on-the-job racism those who had jobs endured.

By George E. Curry
The Republican race to become the party’s presidential standard bearer has been increasingly characterized by candidates invoking racist stereotypes.

On January 4, 2012, Maryland’s highest court issued a unanimous ruling (PDF) in Richmond v. District Court of Maryland that guarantees the right of indigent defendants to have a lawyer present at their initial bail hearing.

In 1991 Barack Obama was the first African American to be named president of the Harvard Law Review.