By Stacey Patton
Tonight the groundbreaking investigative documentary series “The Injustice Files” airs on the Investigative Discovery Channel at 9 pm. The first show, “Secrets of Natchez,” investigates the murder of Wharlest Jackson, a civil rights activist and devoted father of five who became a target of one of the most virulent Ku Klux Klan chapters in the South because he took a job that white racists deemed fit only for white men.

By The Editors
It’s deeply ironic that amidst the considerations of Black History Month and of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, some conservative pundits and legislators continue to be obsessed, at least, rhetorically speaking, with legislatively repealing the 14th Amendment.

By Michael G. Long
The surviving letters of Marshall’s work during his long tenure with the NAACP provide remarkable evidence of the breadth of his democratic vision and the depth of his commitment to making democracy work. Immediately below are three letters that represent part of Marshall’s comprehensive efforts to affect every major part of American life—business, government, civil society, and individual lives.

By Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

By Lee A. Daniels
“What kind of human being could set another man on fire?

This was the question that Stanley Nelson, a reporter for The Concordia Sentinel, a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana Delta town of Ferriday, says first spurred him to exhaustively investigate the 1964 murder of a black Delta businessman, allegedly by the Ku Klux Klan.

By The Editors
The Senate Thursday tabled legislation that would provide a clear route to citizenship for high school and college students in the U.S. illegally, raising the possibility that the push to pass it has failed.

By The Editors
The legal reconstruction of and punishment for the whirlwind of lawlessness that coursed through the New Orleans police department in the wake of Hurricane Katrina five years ago took another step forward on Thursday, December 9.

By Lee A. Daniels
It tolls for Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old black Alabamian, an “ordinary man” whose desire to gain the full measure of his American citizenship led first to tragedy and then to black Americans’ triumph.

On Thursday, November 4, 2010, LDF hosted its 24th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner. At the gala, LDF honored two extraordinary business leaders, William M. Lewis, Jr., Co-Chairman of Investment Banking at Lazard and LDF Board Co-Chair Emeritus, and William C. Weldon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Johnson & Johnson. On this special occasion, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Weldon each received LDF’s National Equal Justice Award.

By The Editors

Buoyed by an extraordinary success in fund-raising, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) held its annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner Thursday in New York City in a celebration that exemplified many of the elements of LDF’s past and present.