As cable-news pundits make the rounds discussing black-on-black violence, in a piece for Gawker, Cord Jefferson argues that white-on-white crime is a problem, too, and points out that crimes committed by whites . Accompanying Jefferson’s article is a video of white surfers rioting in Huntington Beach, Calif. Many people don’t want to hear this kind…

Gawker‘s Cord Jefferson, who relates a personal encounter with racial profiling by police as a college student, says George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin represents the gaps that plague our criminal-justice system.  Tonight a Florida man’s acquittal for hunting and killing a black teenager who was armed with only a bag of candy…

Cord Jefferson argues at Gawker that while it’s understandable that Brown’s actions get more attention than those of less-famous white men accused of the same thing, there are some signs of prejudice in the attacks on the singer and his fans.  … Why is it, for instance, that white people like Jenny Johnson seem to…

Cord Jefferson writes at BET News that we shouldn’t turn a blind eye toward suppression efforts aimed at younger voters. The study, titled “Turning Back the Clock on Voting Rights: The Impact of New Photo Identification Requirements on Young People of Color” [PDF], co-authored by University of Chicago political science professor Cathy Cohen, is an…

Cord Jefferson, writing for BET News, says that the racial disparity in marijuana busts paints a clear picture of two different Americas: one for whites and one for others. Despite the fact that whites smoke marijuana more often than Blacks and Latinos, when it comes to arrests for the drug, Blacks and Latinos are nabbed…

BET‘s Cord Jefferson writes that a report indicating that California’s black community finds its mental-health services inadequate and unhelpful shows that at least some African Americans are taking the issue seriously. Mental-health woes in the African-American community are a tricky thing. On the one hand, besides the general mental problems people of all races suffer,…

Other blacks often look at black atheists or agnostics as alien or pitiable, despite their growing numbers, Cord Jefferson writes in an enlightening blog entry at Gawker. Several years ago, I pitched a freelance piece about black atheism to a prominent magazine geared toward African-Americans. The pitch was denied, but not for any real reason.…

As the Affordable Care Act remains in jeopardy, BET‘s Cord Jefferson focuses on studies that show how it will affect the African-American community if the Supreme Court declares the law unconstitutional. With the legality of President Obama’s landmark Affordable Care Act now being considered in the nation’s highest court, millions of Americans await a ruling…