By The Editors
A prominent association of black police officers last week endorsed the California ballot measure that would legalize marijuana in the state.

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

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) congratulates the New York State Senate for passing legislation to end prison-based gerrymandering in New York.

By Lee A. Daniels
Michael Anthony Green was released from the custody of the state of Texas last Friday – 27 years after being wrongly convicted for the rape of a woman that brought him a sentence of 75 years in prison.

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
In the wake of Oakland transit cop Johannes Mesherle’s recent involuntary manslaughter conviction for the on-duty shooting death of unarmed, 22 year-old Oscar Grant, the injury of his death and so many black men before him is as raw and bloody now as it was the day they were killed.

By The Editors
Six New Orleans police officers were indicted on federal charges for having participated in a police shooting at the city’s Danziger Bridge days after Hurricane Katrina struck which left two unarmed civilians dead and four wounded.

By Johanna Steinberg
Thousands of law-abiding New Yorkers are unfairly and unlawfully subjected to stops-and-frisks because New York City Police Department officers routinely make unfounded assumptions of criminality based on race or ethnicity

By The Editors
For the second time in two years, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled that gun-control laws cannot abridge the right to bear arms the Second Amendment grants individuals. The decision came in a case challenging the gun-control laws of Chicago and a nearby suburb, Oak Park, Illinois, McDonald v. Chicago, No. 08-1521.

By TaRessa Stovall
Thanks to changing laws, there may soon be fewer videos of police actions to post online or contribute to television news stories. The blog Gizmodo.com, reports that, “in at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer … even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.”

By The Editors
Although few in number, they are stunning incidents –“rare events that reverberate widely.”

They are the shooting deaths of police officers, killed by mistake by a fellow police officer or officers.

And, predominantly, the officers shot to death in these tragic circumstances are black or Latino.