By The Editors
The contentious relationship between the police force of a small Connecticut town and its Latino community reached a new stage Tuesday when the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested four of the town’s police officers and charged them with racially profiling and harassing Latinos.

By Lee A. Daniels
Nicholas K. Peart, a 20-something Harlem resident and college student, in an op-ed column in the New York Times last month that describes in a calm, almost clinical way how police racial profiling works at street level to deprive innocent people of their rights and of any reason to trust the police.

By Lee A. Daniels
The words allegedly spoken by a New York City police officer accused of illegally arresting a black New York City resident – “fried another nigger,” – are shocking.

By Lee A. Daniels
Strip away all the rhetoric of rationalization from the proponents of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law. What you’re left with is another example of how thin the veneer of civilization is, of how willing some people are to be cruel to others – especially when their cruelty can be simultaneously fostered and shielded by laws.

By Desiree Cooper
My Name is Khan, which tackles the racial profiling of Muslims after September 11, 2001, has broken records for a Bollywood film, grossing more than $19 million worldwide since its Valentine’s Day release, and more than $2 million in its limited release in the United States

Despite repeated efforts at reform, police departments continue to target communities of color and subject them to dramatically higher rates of stops, search, and arrest. Recent studies show that after three decades of increasing incarceration rates, more than one in every 100 adults in the nation is now behind bars. The numbers for African Americans [...]