Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."

The problem isn't so much what happened with Crowley and Gates. A greater problem is the divide between famous and easily identifiable people of color and those with no defense.

Was this an instance of racial profiling? Did Gates overreact to a reasonable police request? The truth is that we simply do not have enough information to know what really happened in this case.

When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.

Although some have decried Professor Gates as overreacting, I know, from personal experience, that what he did was an act of courage.

The refusal to admit that racial profiling exists has done much to torpedo nearly every effort by civil rights groups to get law enforcement to address this troubling trend.

Professor Gates is someone who deserves better from America. Yet, at the end of the day, he was just another black man residing while black.

Last summer, our City came forward with a simple -- yet radical -- idea. For two months, we dared to challenge the conventional wisdom that gun violence and gang battles plague the summer months.

Stonewall was an expression of power and identity in the face of forced anonymity and oppression. The raid at Fort Worth is a different story altogether.

FORT WORTH (AP) -- Protesters upset with the way police conducted a raid on a gay nightclub rallied in downtown Fort Worth. Seven people were arreste...

A New York City police officer accused of raping an intoxicated woman after helping her home "had sexual intercourse with the physically helpless vict...

The policy of mass arresting and detaining protesters was deliberate and premeditated. The intention was to disrupt, discourage, and, ultimately, disperse the protest presence from the streets by creating a climate of fear.

If one of these two drugs is implicated in dire health effects, high mortality rates, and physical violence -- and the other is not -- what are we to make of our nation's marijuana laws?

The long running Grim Sleeper killing saga underscores the great threat of murder and criminal violence to many black women.