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.

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 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 Tarice L.S. Gray
January’s usually the month when Americans are bombarded with tips for getting their bodies back in shape after feasting on December’s holiday fare.

January is also a time when people often wonder: are my finances in good shape?

A panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed itself to reinstate a jury’s finding that John Hithon, an African-American worker at a Tyson Foods plant in Gadsden, Alabama, was discriminated against by his employer.

By Lee A. Daniels
For the past few months the state of Alabama has been buffeted by an unusual force.

Call it the “day of absence” syndrome.

By The Editors
Barring significant reforms of the nation’s Social Security program to avert a shortfall in funds in the coming decades, a substantial number of black Americans’ golden years may be filled with dross.

By Doug Miller
The study, Lost Ground, 2011,  found that low- and moderate-income African Americans and Latino Americans have suffered a disproportionate share of losses.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
A new report for the first time determines how many African Americans and Latinos depend on Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor, to treat serious diseases or conditions.

By Ronnie Reese via the Chicago Tribune
Editor’s Note — Nearly two decades ago, nearly 6,000 black Chicagoans had sought the chance to serve their city as firefighters. Their quest dream was at first denied, and then long-delayed before being ultimately vindicated by the Supreme Court in the case of Lewis v. The City of Chicago. This week the first of those candidates were called to begin the first round of testing, as an article from the Chicago Tribune