Sunday morning, on the Melissa Harris-Perry show the MSNBC journalist dedicated a segment to the school closings epidemic that has swept across the country in every major city, an epidemic that has -- up until Sunday been virtually ignored by national media.

Detroit alone has already shut down 300 public...

Citing new evidence, the NAACP has asked the North Carolina governor to pardon the so-called Wilmington Ten who were convicted of arson and conspiracy more than four decades ago in a case some say was tainted by racial discrimination and jury tampering.

The NAACP last week began circulating...

Michael Dunn, the 45- year old Florida man who is invoking the controversial ‘Stand Your Ground Law’ after the shooting of 17-year old Jordan Davis appeared in court today and is officially being charged with second degree murder.

According to Dunn’s attorney, Robin Lemonidis, he saw a...

Florida's controversial 'Stand Your Ground' law is back on the national stage after the murder of yet another unarmed, black teenager.

Michael Dunn, a 45-year-old Florida resident, is invoking the controversial law after a recent confrontation turned fatal, The Orlando Sentinel reports.

According to authorities,...

Florida’s controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ law is back on the national stage after the murder of yet another unarmed, black teenager.

Michael Dunn, a 45-year-old Florida resident, is invoking the controversial law after a recent confrontation turned fatal, The Orlando Sentinel reports.

According to authorities,...

When I was a child in grade school, whenever a teacher asked us who Abraham Lincoln was and what he did, in unison we would all delightfully answer, "he freed the slaves." Yet it would be many years before I was able to fully comprehend the magnitude of what that...

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"I don't know if I would have brought Al Sharpton on to do a show!" Rev. Al Sharpton himself admitted this fall at the one-year anniversary party of his MSNBC nightly program, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, according to...

Color of Change, the nation's largest online civil rights organization, is taking on media heavyweight Clear Channel over billboards that the advocacy group claims are attempts at voter intimidation.

Recently, anti-voter fraud billboards have sprung up in swing states such as Ohio and Wisconsin, depicting a gavel and informing passers-by...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs was honored last night by the National Action Network (NAN) at the organization’s 3rd annual Triumph Awards held in New York City. Combs, best known as the hip-hop pioneer who ushered the industry into an era of flamboyance and materialism, gave what was quite possibly the most...

There is a large population of American citizens who call New York City their home, yet are living behind enemy lines. Despite being, in many cases contributing members of society, students and simply normal everyday people, these mostly black and brown men are stopped, searched, harassed, berated and in some...

The nation’s first privately owned prison could be under fire after an audit report released last week by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODFC), revealed the prison has failed to meet state standards.

The Ohio Correctional facility, formerly a state prison, bought by the Corrections Corporation of...

WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Black Caucus held a series of events throughout the country on Tuesday to educate communities on voter suppression laws and to help ensure eligible voters aren't turned away at the polls in November.

Members of the CBC have partnered with community leaders and local and state...

Assiah Richardson spent much of Thursday morning scrambling to get to Washington to attend this year’s Annual Legislative Conference.

The Philadelphia-based activist has faithfully attended the annual conference, hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus, for more than two decades. But this year she was more eager than...

Super rapper Jay-Z and his recent comments regarding the Occupy movement are a great example of the unfortunate shift within the Hip-Hop culture from representing the poor and disenfranchised to essentially shunning them. In a New York Times Magazine profile the Jiggaman had this to say about the...

This year's election could prove to be one of the most important in our nation's history and there is at least one group whose vote could determine its outcome. According to the National Urban League, one of America's oldest and most respected civil rights organizations, the African-American vote has the...

Civil rights advocates have been fighting this year against controversial voter ID laws in a number of states across the country. On Tuesday, 93-year-old Viviette Applewhite became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and NAACP challenging the voter ID law in Pennsylvania.

Under the...

Massachusetts Senate candidates Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown released their tax returns for the past several years on Friday, in response to a request from the Boston Globe.

Brown's returns show that Republican incumbent's family income rose significantly after he won his special election for Senate...

Sen. Scott Brown (R) has launched another attack on Elizabeth Warren, who is seeking to unseat him in the Massachusetts Senate race, criticizing her over a 20-year interest-free loan Warren received while a professor at Harvard law school, the Boston Herald reports.

According to financial disclosure forms Warren...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) almost got the opportunity to replace three state Supreme Court justices, thanks to a near-hiccup with election paperwork.

On Friday, Justices Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince nearly missed the deadline to qualify for the ballot, the Associate Press reports. They filed...

A Senate race in Texas took a negative turn this week when Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R) released a statewide television ad attacking his opponent, attorney Ted Cruz.

The ad criticizes Cruz for representing Shandong Linglong Rubber Co. in its appeal of a $26 million judgment awarded to American inventor...