“The forward movement” on Obamacare is “not unqualified good news,” Imara Jones writes in a piece at Colorlines that examines the pros and cons of the linchpin of the Affordable Care Act — millions of uninsured Americans’ ability to sign up for plans on their own or through Medicaid — which takes effect on Oct.…

Colorlines‘ Imara Jones admonishes the president for blaming people of color for persistent economic inequality during his speech for the March on Washington’s 50th anniversary. He said that Obama’s talk was long on rhetoric and short on substance. On the very site of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the nation’s first black…

What actually sank Paula Deen’s wayward American dream was not her flagrant use of the n-word but her often-stated desire to return to the legal ownership of blacks, which made her family rich, Imara Jones contends in a blog post at Colorlines. Deen’s plantation wishes and mint julep dreams burst back into public consciousness on June 19.…

Imara Jones wants black and Latino people to pay close attention to reports about the government’s surveillance activities as of late. Writing at Colorlines, Jones describes a program called Prism that targets social media, which is used disproportionately by people of color. But particularly troubling for people of color is the program called Prism. With…

Colorlines‘ Imara Jones explains why the sequester — which is affecting millions of Americans, including thousands of young children — is unnecessary and even counterproductive. There are the big trends: Economic growth last quarter was lower than forecast in part because of sequestration. Unemployment remains high and job growth held back by the newly imposed…

Colorlines‘ Imara Jones hopes that someone is paying attention to a recent report on how to fix the policy mess’s impact on communities of color.  Despite recent headlines trumpeting a return of America’s real estate market to its boom-time highs, a report released today by the Alliance for a Just Society shows how little of…

Lack of legal protections for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in two-thirds of the 50 states means that more people live in poverty because they don’t have the same rights as other Americans, Imara Jones writes at Colorlines. As the Supreme Court weighed arguments on same-sex marriage, Chief Justice John Roberts…

Wall Street is raking in large profits as the economy crawls back from the recession. Colorlines editor Imara Jones says that this abundance isn’t raining down on all Americans, but it is possible to change that.  #1 Local Is Everything One way to strengthen communities is to keep profits close to home. That’s the goal…