The Trayvon Martin case reminds minorities that submitting to second-class status has not worked.

A jail sentence may not be the answer for Sean Bell's killers, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes at his Atlantic magazine blog; firing them is a far better way to avoid future catastrophic mistakes.

New York City finally does the right thing.

Is there a difference between Barack Obama's talk on race before and after election? John McWhorter talks Sonia Sotomayor, political organizing, the Philadelphia pool incident and the "Joshua Generation."