By Lee A. Daniels
For the past few months the state of Alabama has been buffeted by an unusual force.

Call it the “day of absence” syndrome.

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.

By Lee A. Daniels
Alabama, whose Republican–dominated legislature in June enacted the nation’s most restrictive law targeting undocumented immigrants — in order, they said, to preserve those and other low-wage jobs for American citizens – is discovering: you can’t.

By Lee A. Daniels
New Mexico’s new Republican Governor Susana Martinez has drawn significant national attention not only because she’s the first Latinato hold that high office in the U.S., but also because she’s pushed a hard-line against undocumented immigrants—most of whom, of course, are from Latin America.

By The Editors
For the last decade or so, we’ve been treated to a concentrated dose of one of the grand traditions of American history: the assertion that U.S.-born black Americans are last on the pecking order of American ethnic groups who “contribute” to American society.

By The Editors
A federal appeals court Monday upheld a lower court ruling that barred the central provisions of a controversial Arizona immigration law from taking effect.

By The Editors
A new study released last week and the recent rejection by the Arizona Senate of proposed legislation as harsh as the controversial measure it enacted last year may represent a critical turn in the furious debate over illegal immigration.

By Lee A. Daniels
Now, I see the purveyors of “manufactured paranoia” think it’s much better to spread their poisonous anger – to stoke a scapegoating frenzy – among several targets at once, the better, they think, to enable them to “take back” America.

By TaRessa Stovall
“Some senators proudly put their thumbs down, and with each thumb down I felt like my heart was a tighter knot. All I could think was, ‘can I continue to live like this?’”

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.