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USDA to Pay Black Farmers $1.25 Billion

(Feb. 23) -- Some 70,000 black farmers have reached a $1.25 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for years of discrimination in farm loans and subsidies. But after generations of disappointment, this group of farmers knows the fight isn't over until the check arrives. Though President Barack Obama...

Opinion: Reid, Rage and Race

(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great...

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05/28/12 Polls On Gay Marriage Not Yet Reflected In Votes Source: CBS/CW - KOVR 13/KMAX 31 - Sacramento CA Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint.
05/28/12 Can cities desegregate? Source: Salon.com "Segregation," the preacher paused to let his congregation absorb the full solemnity of his message, "is apparent everywhere."
05/28/12 Otis Moss, III Challenges Fellow Clergy On Marriage... Source: The Huffington Post The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III is the Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.
05/28/12 Mississippi civil rights advocate Doar to receive... Source: Louisiana News-Star - Monroe LA "The world has changed," said Doar, now a partner with the Doar Rieck Kaley &; Mack law firm in New York City. "I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote."
05/28/12 The Myth of Equal Rights Source: Counterpunch The civil rights movement illuminated the hypocrisy of the liberal promise.