By Kenneth J. Cooper
As a Georgia congressman, Newt Gingrich was no friend of civil rights. He voted against civil rights bills and mouthed the inflammatory arguments of conservative opponents of black progress.

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 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?

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

By Lee A. Daniels
Mike O’Neal, Speaker of the House for the state of Kansas, came to national attention this week because early in the week he forwarded from his personal e-mail account an e-mail that likened First Lady Michelle Obama to the Dr. Seuss character, the Grinch – because of a photograph of her with windblown hair – and included a sneering reference to her as “Mrs. YoMama.”

By Kenneth J. Cooper
For starters, I’ll concede Touré is right about a couple points he makes in his new book, “Who’s Afraid of Pot-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now.” There is no such thing as “authentic” or “legitimate” blackness. African Americans as a people have never empowered anyone to make those judgments.

By Kenneth J. Cooper Brown University’s daring self-examination of its historical ties to slavery has prompted a second Ivy League school, venerable Harvard University, to do the same. The 2006 report that Brown President Ruth Simmons, “Slavery and Justice,”  commissioned found deep connections between the university in Providence, R.I. and slavery and the slave trade. [...]

By George E. Curry
Herman Cain’s asinine campaign to become president of the United States is now toast. Not just toast – burnt toast. He officially flamed out Saturday on the heels – or, shall we say, high heels – of yet another woman accusing him of sexual misconduct.

New York Supreme Court Justice Eugene Devine upheld New York’s law ending prison-based gerrymandering in the Little v. LATFOR lawsuit.

By Doug Miller
Just don’t expect a lot of very much poorer minorities to join the choir.