By The Editors
As Norway reels, decent people across the globe are again left to ponder the same horrible question that has haunted human society for the last century: What drives sane human beings to believe their ideology justifies mass murder?

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
For the second time within weeks, a new study has focused attention on the central role a small number of firearms stores in supplying guns that are later used in the commission of crimes.

By The Editors
The momentum may be increasing for substantive reform in two areas of the criminal justice system that have fostered significant injustice.

One area involves eyewitness identification. The other involves suspects who confess to a crime during police interrogation – even though they’re innocent. Both have played a critical role in producing the crisis of mass incarceration that has overwhelmed the criminal justice system, damaged the lives of many individuals and their families, and especially undermined the stability of many individual black communities and Black America as a whole.

By Lee A. Daniels
Sweeten, a blond, white suburban Philadelphia mother of three, briefly drew national attention last week by falsely claiming she and her 9-year-old daughter had been carjacked and abducted by two black men-thus tying her pretend predicament to the most notorious obsession of America’s racist past: the hulking black brute ravishing the virginal white female.

By The Editors
More young black men are killing each other, and it’s time to stop the madness, says a recent report from Northeastern University which calls for reinvesting in prevention and crime control.