September 25, 2007 -
UPDATE: In a major new development, the Associated Press reports that the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection in the case of two Kentucky inmates. A Federal judge has ruled that the state of Tennessee's lethal injection method of execution is unconstitutional:
September 24, 2007 -
The National Lawyers Guild -- the nation's first racially integrated bar association -- today called for the immediate release of Mychal Bell, one of the six black Louisiana high school students who have come to be known as the "Jena 6." The Guild also called fo
September 24, 2007 -
We recently brought you the story of Mississippi's plan to divert $600 million in federal funds from a housing program for low-income homeowners hit by Hurricane Katrina to improve the state port at Gulfport.
September 24, 2007 -
Despite the severe shortage of housing affordable to low-income residents of the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast, the U.S.
September 24, 2007 -
It's no secret that young people are drowning in debt. Two-thirds of 20-somethings are in hock, usually a mix of college loans and credit card debt.
September 22, 2007 -
With Jena on the media radar, NPR did a story this week about the larger issue of re-segregation of U.S. schools.
September 21, 2007 -
Yesterday, thousands of marchers descended on Jena, Louisiana to support the "Jena 6." Despite being ignored for months by the mainstream media, the case has become a defining racial justice and civil rights struggle of our time.