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

By Tarice L. S. Gray
In 2011, there were nearly 3 million breast cancer survivors in this country. Dee Dee Ricks is one of them. She’s the subject the HBO documentary “The Education of Dee Dee Ricks” which walks us through her treatment and charges that the health care system doesn’t play fair.

By Lee A. Daniels
It’s been clear for some time that, when it comes to pursuing a harsh crackdown on undocumented immigrants, Alabama state officials are determined to ignore the lesson Arizona came to learn. That is, that the economic consequences of such an action, in fact, indicate how integral these non-citizens are to the many states’ and communities’ viability.

The September/October newsletter of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council presents a vitally important exchange of views on the much-discussed issue of implicit bias.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
This time it wasn’t even close. After the back-and-forth over who won the June election for principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, a do-over vote has ousted recent incumbent Chad Smith, who led the campaign to expel nearly all black citizens from the tribe.

By The Editors
Hero.

The word is overused. But if one accepts its true definition, then certainly Derrick Bell and the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth did enough during their lives to qualify several times over.

By Lee A. Daniels
“Niggerhead” was far from being the only place in Texas or many other states in the South and North that whites felt driven to dishonor with slurs against black Americans. What that compulsion signified – how profoundly saturated with anti-black racism America was – is the point that stands at the center of this controversy.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The evolution of multiculturalism has not just been about acceptance, but about leveling the playing field.

By Lee A. Daniels
The equality-loving – so they say – College Republican club at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday held what they described as a satirical “bake sale” on the storied campus to publicize their opposition to any change in 15-year-old ban against state institutions adopting affirmative action policies.