By TaRessa Stovall
Why a personal instead of an official apology for the lack of justice in a Jim Crow attack whose victim is still alive…and waiting?

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
The growth of multi-racial people and their assertion that their Census choices should reflect their presence in the population is presenting an interesting quandary.

By The Editors
A panel of leaders who’ve worked to foster greater diversity told a public forum in Charlotte, North Carolina Thursday evening it was imperative that Americans regain their courage, their sense of community, and their faith that the country does have enough room, resources and opportunity for all.

This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the admissions program utilized by the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to assemble a diverse student body. Fisher v. Texas is the first federal appellate challenge to the use of race in university admissions since the Supreme Court’s landmark 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger. The Fifth Circuit’s unanimous decision affirms that UT Austin’s admissions plan is entirely consistent with Grutter.

By Lee A. Daniels
“You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference …”
If only Richard Nixon had kept the bitter promise he spat out to reporters the day after losing the California gubernatorial election in November, 1962.

By Doug Miller
Facing prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), national mortgage lender PrimeLending has agreed to pay $2 million to African-American home buyers who the federal agency says were unfairly charged higher interest rates because of their race.

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 The Editors
On Friday, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said he would declare April 2011 as “Civil War in Virginia Month” in keeping with the state’s effort to “remember [its] past with candor, courage and conciliation.” McDonnell’s designation last winter of April as “Confederate History Month” provoked an intense national controversy.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what does one call the ruse of pretending to imitate? By Lee A. Daniels There are roughly 38 million African Americans in America. Why did so few of them show up at the Glenn Beck- Sarah Palin “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday? Salon [...]