What do you know about this courageous woman who helped spark the civil rights movement that transformed America?
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. The number of homeless st...
AP | BETSY TAYLOR | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
ST. LOUIS — Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racial...
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
At home, Dad spoke of the racism he saw every day in the courtroom. Civil rights leaders, he told us, where only honored when they were safely dead.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
We live in a system that provides limited opportunities for communities of color to access health serves, with fewer options for treatment, and with lower-quality care.
AP | TOM BREEN and MATT LEINGANG | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An attorney for a black woman who claimed torture by a white group in West Virginia says his client fabricated the story to get...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Civil rights groups are now stepping into the health care reform debate by launching a six-figure ad campaign, reports the Washington Post's Capital B...
Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
The brutal, public nature of Mark Anthony Barmore's killing has thrust the city of Rockford into the spotlight, and posed disturbing questions about accountability and the use of excessive force.
Hilary O. Shelton | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
Our current system of consumer protection fails to protect Americans from basic exploitation and abuses that can cost individuals and families hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even their homes.
The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
For months, the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder have been promising to restore the Justice Department's role in protecting minor...
Javier Sierra | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Big Coal and Big Oil are determined to cover our ears so we can't hear about the overwhelming advantages of the climate and energy bill, especially for us Latinos.
Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Hours before President Obama's Wednesday night speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform, leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus ...
Paula Goldman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Comments from the Momentum 2009 Conference in San Francisco -- a gathering of thought-leaders, social entrepreneurs, and activists, to share strategies for positive change.
Amy Goodman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Glenn Beck may claim a notch in his belt, but he's also helped push Van Jones back into an arena where he can be much more effective, as a grass-roots organizer.
Miami Herald | Tania Valdemoro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Organizers will go ahead with the popular Veterans' Day parade in Homestead despite the controversy over a group marching for the first time with the ...
James Hoggan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
In swing states, 63 percent of voters support the climate change legislation currently being considered in the Senate.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Voters in swing states say they are more likely to re-elect Senators who support the Clean Energy Jobs Bill, according to a new poll. The poll, condu...
Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.
Angie Cordeiro | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Wells Fargo made a mistake and has received over $25 billion dollars to correct it. Dollars that the bank said would be used to help stop foreclosures... I see no bailout.
Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment -- or, we should say, re-impoverishment -- of African Americans as a group.
Lainey Shany | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
But who is Troy Davis? Who is this man who has stirred many to action, yet is unable to speak to directly to the media himself? And how can all of us come to see his plight as our own?
Mark Thompson | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
The "personal responsibility" argument suggests that there is some inherent pathology within African Americans that is disabling. The word plays well politically among moderate and conservative Whites.
Kesi Augustine | Posted 08.28.2009 | New York
When I heard President Barack Obama mention my Manhattan high school, Bard High School Early College, in his speech to the NAACP last week, I was paralyzed with surprise. I was not alone.
Amy Goodman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
As it moves into its second century, the NAACP is, unfortunately, as relevant as ever.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics