New Harvard study finds steep declines in Black homeownership in major cities ... read more »

Men and their motives are evolving ... read more »

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The statement was true, and the White House had apparently waited too long before making reservations for Trump and his traveling staff for the summit. ... read more »

In this surreal-like but painfully real era of Donald Trump, Black people must re-examine their values and demand more effective leadership. ... read more »

The health care repeal that Republicans are pushing through Congress is a direct attack on the lives of black people throughout the country. ... read more »

Our justice system was intended to be the one nonpolitical check on our two politicized branches of government. ... read more »

Proposed Trump Administration departmental budget cuts will result in the loss of the equivalent of 46, full-time positions. For remaining staff, caseload levels will rise. ... read more »

When the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees elects its new President next week, they have a chance to make a statement--they can elect a leader who both looks like and understands the students the district serves. Why is it important? The new President will become the face of the district, and with nearly four out of five students coming from minority backgrounds, that face should reflect the composition of the colleges. That's why we are urging the LACCD Board of Trustees to elevate Sydney Kamlager-Dove to its presidency. ... read more »

No one ever said that higher education wouldn’t cost money. Across the country, tuition is steadily rising and students are taking longer to pay off their student loans. ... read more »

In 2012, a Los Angeles Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence indicated former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca was negligent and largely insulated by his staff from the problem of excessive use of force against inmates in county jails. Baca resigned in 2014. On May 17, 2017 he was sentenced to three years in federal prison for obstructing an FBI investigation of abuses in county jails. ... read more »

In 1954, Thurgood Marshall and a team of NAACP attorneys argued the landmark civil rights case, Brown v. Board, before the Supreme Court. They demonstrated to the Justices that segregated schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause -- that separate was and would always be unequal. ... read more »

I just completed my freshman year of college, and words cannot express how much of a blast and an eye opener my first year was. ... read more »

There is nothing more definitive of the destructive approach to us as a people than state-imposed and state-sanctioned violence. In other words, not only does the state, i.e., federal, state and local governments and their agents and institutions, commit violence against us, they also accept and approve it as normal and necessary. ... read more »

It’s not really something that you are aware of as a child, but sometime during adolescence, it begins to become evident. It grows, faster in some people, ... read more »