By George E. Curry
Judging by his critics, Obama won’t have support even when he accomplished something George W. Bush couldn’t.

By TaRessa Stovall
May 1961: Between May and December , 436 black and white civil rights activists, many of them students, known as Freedom Riders rode more than 60 bus rides to fight segregated travel facilities in the South and raise the nation’s consciousness about racial injustice.

By Lee A. Daniels and Stacey Patton
Another day. Another outrageous example of how deeply the election of a black American of mixed parentage has unhinged some conservative white Americans.

By The Editors
Last week there appeared on the website of Rick Santorum, the former conservative Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and potential candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination, a montage of photos of Santorum above the slogan, “Fighting to Make America America Again,” similar to the title of the famous poem by Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again.”

By Stacey Patton and TaRessa Stovall
The old saying, “I heard it through the grapevine” has new meaning in the age of social media and blogging.

By Stacey Patton
The American media treats all human misery like pornography.

By Vern E. Smith
Wharlest Jackson Jr. is a big man, well over six feet tall and 200 pounds. But to listen to him speak of his namesake, Wharlest Jackson Sr., is to witness the strapping adult reduced to the weeping eight-year-old boy who rode his bicycle to the scene of a powerful car bomb in the spring of 1967 in Natchez, Miss. and discovered that the victim was his own father.

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 Lee A. Daniels
A new book published last month reminds us that the power of “new media” to support democratic change isn’t new.

By Arsalan Iftikhar
I’m Arsalan Iftikhar, a civil rights attorney and frequent contributor to Tell Me More’s Barbershop segment. The black history figure who has always been a hero of mine is Thurgood Marshall.