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
With final passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of a $1.15 billion settlement bill and the expectation that it will be quickly signed by the president, Congress brought to a close a 13-year fight to rectify discrimination against black American farmers who were unfairly denied loans by the Agriculture Department (USDA).

By The Editors
Jacqueline A. Berrien, Chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has a “sense of urgency” about it’s work – and its showing.

Since taking office last April, Berrien has moved swiftly to reverse the federal agency’s reputation as inefficient in keeping track of claims individuals file with it and ineffective in safeguarding workers’ rights, according to a profile in this week’s National Law Journal.

By The Editors
Congress has yet to approve the appropriation, and it doesn’t look like, with the mid-term election looming, they’re going to this year.

By The Editors
African-American and Native American farmers, who’ve endured decades of discrimination from the federal government, rallied in Washington this week in an effort to get the Senate to finally approve payout of the billions of dollars they were awarded through the settlement of lawsuits nearly a decade

By The Editors
Black farmers’ years of litigation and political lobbying to try to right an egregious wrong endured another frustrating setback Thursday when the Senate once again refused to appropriate the funds necessary to settle their long-decided discrimination lawsuit against the federal government.

By The Editors
For more than a decade, the class-action lawsuit involving tens of thousands of the nation’s black farmers on the one side and the federal Department of Agriculture on the other stood as a dramatic symbol of the institutional racism undermining even black Americans involved in one of America’s mythic occupations.

By Doug Miller
Federal officials say the Obama administration is moving to aggressively combat discriminatory lending practices that have long undermined the ability of black and Latino Americans to become homeowners.

By Doug Miller
After a recent meeting with U.S. Senate majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and members of the Congressional Black Caucus, John W. Boyd, Jr., the head of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) said roughly 80,000 new claims have been filed under a re-energized suit to compensate black farmers for discrimination suffered at the hands of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), but funds earmarked to settle the claims apparently have been misplaced in the year-end budget shuffle.