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by Edward Wyckoff Williams onFebruary 27, 2013
A year after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, the defendant's press blitz is paying off.
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by Genetta M. Adams onDecember 27, 2012
From Whitney to Rodney King, we recall the folks in politics and culture who died this year.
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by Edward Wyckoff Williams onDecember 1, 2012
Everyone's talking about "Stand your ground" laws, but it's time to talk about guns, too.
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by Aisha I. Jefferson onSeptember 12, 2012
The NAACP and activists fight for the release of a black Georgia man who shot a man who was on his lawn.
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by Jill Nelson onJuly 31, 2012
Whether a clean-cut Trayvon Martin or a troubled Ramarley Graham, everyone rates fair treatment.
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June 11, 2012
Blogging the Beltway: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating the laws for racial bias.
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by Jason Silverstein onMay 16, 2012
Marissa Alexander says she fired a shot in self-defense. Why haven't gun advocates supported her?
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May 1, 2012
In his column for Time, Touré says that a woman who is in a fight in her home with an admitted habitual domestic abuser, against whom she has legal protection, should be entitled to stand her ground -- but it doesn't always work out that way.
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April 18, 2012
Blogging the Beltway: But unimpressed activists call the conservative group's move a "PR stunt."
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April 11, 2012
"Stand your ground" laws, racially skewed school discipline practices and the biased criminal-justice system make it clear that we need a strong U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson writes at the Chicago Sun-Times.
