The horrible death of Trayvon Martin has put the stereotyping of black men and racial profiling front-and-center in the national consciousness like no other case in more than a decade. Trayvon, a teen with great promise, who played football, loved video games and had dreams of going to...

What can one say about the state of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream of racial and social equality as we approach his 83rd birthday on Monday? A great deal. Volumes and volumes. Why so much? Because the work of achieving racial equality, ending poverty and ending war is so unfinished.

We are at a crossroads in American history. For many in the United States, the American Dream, the idea that the U.S. offers the chance to earn a decent living, buy a nice home and afford college opportunities for one's children, is fraying. The Dream, although often quite difficult to...

I work for an organization that works to end racial profiling by law enforcement. Racial profiling, the practice of singling out people for stops, searches and investigations based on skin color and physical characteristics is, indeed, a major problem and a national disgrace. (If you agree with me then

Last week, a federal court's decision allowed parts of a law to go into effect that essentially requires police to racially profile people while criminalizing undocumented migrants for being without immigration documents. The law and the decision upholding it shows that Alabama -- in passing the harshest anti-immigration...

Have you ever been a passenger in a car that was stopped because the driver was speeding or ran a light, and get asked what country you're from? And then get asked for identification documents? Well, that's what happened to two migrant workers, Danilo Lopez and Antonio Meza-Sandoval,...

Federal immigration officials announced Friday that they will be ramming the Secure Communities program down the throats of all states and cities nationwide by 2013 -- irrespective of whether the states and localities have an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to participate in the program...

Blame the Muslims and use a double standard when confronting national security issues. We see this mindset crop up time and time again these days where some members of the media and elected officials, whose fears have crowded out logic and common sense, jump to conclusions and reinforce stereotypes, letting...

It's a shame that the New York Police Department continues its unconstitutional targeting of Black and Latino New Yorkers despite years of demands that this dehumanization end.

Earlier this month, the family of a 14-year-old boy, Devin Almonor, alleged in a federal lawsuit that their son was stopped...

When we think of racial profiling, we generally think of a person of color, perhaps a Black or Latino man or woman, in a car who gets stopped by police based on skin color. Often, a minor traffic infraction, like failing to signal when changing lanes, provides the legal rationale...