By Tarice L. S. Gray
Families are where children find acceptance, which is key to healthy growth and development.

By Stacey Patton
August 28th marks the 55th anniversary of the brutal murder of 14 year-old Emmett Louis Till. In the summer of 1955 he was forced out of his bed in the middle of the night at gunpoint by white men, thrown on the back of a pick-up truck and driven to a barn [...]

By Stacey Patton
Since Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration of any state in the country  –  of which 79 percent of its 39,000 inmates are black – it ’s no surprise to hear that BP is using prison labor to clean up the largest oil spill ever in U.S. history.

By Lee A. Daniels
The name of William Stewart Simkins, an early twentieth-century law professor once officially held in high esteem at the University of Texas at Austin, will now live on in shame.

By Lee A. Daniels
A teachable moment on America’s racial past and present is occurring at the University of Texas at Austin because of the exposure of the dirty history of one of its early twentieth-century professors: his membership in the Ku Klux Klan.

By Stacey Patton
When I finished the full story, I came to the surprising conclusion that this latest interaction between a white teacher and black child’s hair just might not be a racist incident after all.

By Lee A. Daniels
Paul revealed – again — that when it comes to protecting citizens from discrimination, libertarianism favors a policy of governmental benign neglect that would leave the targets of discrimination stranded in a vast, turbulent sea of injustice.

By Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
In New York State Thurgood Marshall Day –appropriately — also marks the anniversary of a great American milestone.

By Lee A. Daniels
Is it congenital?
Is the Republican Party so institutionally infected with anti-black and anti-Latino hostility that it can’t help doing things which make a mockery of its glib rhetoric about appealing to people of color?

By Jill Nelson
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers is Reed’s fourth book of media criticism. We talked to Reed while he was on the East Coast on a brief tour to promote a book whose publication and scathing critique of racist, corporate controlled media has largely and not surprisingly been ignored by those whom Reed labels the “Jim Crow Media.”