Brentin Mock writes at Colorlines about journalist and documentarian Deborah "Big Red" Cotton, who has expressed both her concern about New Orleans violence and her compassion and love for black men in the city.

The Philadelphia abortion doctor has been convicted on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter.

Simpson will argue that he was inadequately represented at his 2008 trial for armed robbery and kidnapping. 

Jelani Cobb writes in the New Yorker that Malcolm Shabazz, who died last week in Mexico, was a young man still defining his place amid a looming legacy.