Tensions mounted between the two leading Democratic candidates for president Sunday, as Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a newly aggressive attack on Barack Obama, suggesting his much-vaunted opposition to the Iraq war was all talk and little action. ...more

January 14, 2008

Voters Disenfranchised Regarding "Florida Voters 'Could Have a Huge Role' " (Nation/World, Jan. 6): ...more

January 12, 2008

Jamar McNeil's pitch at a George Washington University entrepreneurship contest didn't involve a whole lot of planning or market research. He and fellow GWU student Brian Peters had simply been bemoaning the lack of an outlet for people like them - ardent fans of hip-hop culture and video gaming. ...more

December 18, 2007

When was the last time the U.S. Congress and any president passed major laws that truly helped the American people? It wasn't tax cuts for wealthy people, nor was it the prescription drug law that was a boon to pharmaceutical companies who bought, paid for and even wrote the legislation. No, not much has happened since the Civil Rights movement that was fundamentally right for the people. ...more

December 6, 2007

Wheeler Parker remembers vividly the night of Aug. 28, 1955, when two white men burst into his bedroom. ...more

November 18, 2007

Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of about 2,300 families for more than 30 years. ...more

November 13, 2007

There's something very comforting about being a baby boomer. Maybe because there are so many of us - 80 million born from 1946 to 1964. ...more

November 4, 2007

The death of Martin Lee Anderson could have the same galvanizing effect across the country as the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, protesters said Tuesday on the steps of the capital city's federal courthouse. ...more

October 24, 2007

Before the trial of seven guards and a nurse in the boot camp death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson even began, I told a friend that none of the defendants would be convicted. ...more

October 21, 2007

In the early 1950s, postcards spread the "Florida Dream." Pictures of a tranquil, unspoiled tropical paradise of sun, surf and sea. ...more

October 17, 2007