It will be Trayvon Martin who will be judged in the trial, writes Eric Mann in Colorlines, not his murderer.  

In a story inspired by NPR's Race Card Project, Gregory McGriff says he can't get away with the things his white partners can, and that has changed the way he treats patients. 

In a Salon piece, Kai Wright argues that for-profit universities are amassing wealth at the expense of black students, who are taking on massive college-loan debts that will only lead to greater poverty -- not prosperity.

Writing for the Huffington Post, New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel encourages folks to simmer down about the national-security scandals plaguing Attorney General Eric Holder's administration at the Department of Justice.