Know History... Know Labor!     On this Labor Day, as some people assault the American worker’s right to organize, protest and collectively bargain, it is appropriate to take a few minutes to remember -- and learn -- on whose shoulders we toil.       Workers fighting for their rights is as American as apple... Read More

Wal-mart: The People’s Self-Inflicted Weapon Today the Supreme Court justices heard arguments in the largest gender discrimination lawsuit in our nation’s history against the big-box retailer, Wal-Mart. The Wal-Mart Stores vs. Betty Dukes class action suit involves more than 1.5 million women throughout the retailer’s 3,400 stores seeking back pay for... Read More

The Lady Is a Leader AFL-CIO Names Jeter Year’s ‘Outstanding Trade Unionist’ The Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO presented Jackie Jeter, president of ATU Local 689, the JC Turner Award for Outstanding Trade Unionist of the Year at its annual dinner at Washington, DC’s Omni Shoreham Hotel on Saturday, March 12. Now in... Read More

Celebratory, Yet Appropriately Cautious.   Speaking to the American people and the world today, President Barack Obama said that Egypt "will never be the same" after the successful revolution to oust Hosni Mubarak as President. "Egyptians have inspired us, and they've done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is... Read More

Education Injustice For One Is Injustice For All   The arrest and felony conviction of Kelley Williams-Bolar for falsifying records to give her daughters a chance at a better education says so much about education inequity in America and its virulent affect on poor people.  Some leading voices in journalism and politics... Read More

De-integrating schools: A sign of the times? Or a dangerous step back?   In this modern day and age, a new majority-Republican school board backed by national tea party conservatives, is abolishing a school policy that has kept integration alive in a district that was last in the nation to embrace it.... Read More

Don't Ask. Don't Tell.  Don't Stop!   By: Ryan Duncan   And just like that it's gone. Don't Ask. Don't Tell.  Don't Stop! This morning history was made as President Obama proudly signed the "DADT" repeal act of 2010 into law thus ending the military policy that has resulted in the unjust firing of... Read More

On Monday, the Obama administration blocked a controversial Texas law requiring voters to show personal ID before hitting the polls. Just yesterday, a similar bill was passed in Pennsylvania, making it the 16th state to require some form of identification. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed the act into law, saying... Read More

Karen Narasaki is president and executive director of the Asian American Justice Center, one of the nation’s premiere civil rights advocacy organizations advancing the human and civil rights of Asian Americans. Karen is a national authority on immigration and civil rights, serving as vice chairwoman of the Leadership Conference on Civil... Read More

Bob Herbert is an award-winning columnist who wrote about politics, urban affairs and social trends for the New York Times for nearly two decades. He is the author of "Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream". In this video, Bob Herbert speaks at the Voice Matters Book Launch Party from... Read More

By Danielle LeFlore Photograph courtesy of ROC4LIFE. There was recently a story in the news about an African American couple who were forbidden from getting married at a church because of their race. When it was revealed that this took place in Mississippi, I thought, it figures. Don’t get me wrong—I have... Read More

By Llenda Jackson-Leslie Martina Davis-Correia and her son Antone Davis-Correia sit in front of a CT scan machine at St. Joseph's Chandler Hospital, December 2008. Photograph courtesy of Hunter McRae/Savannah Morning News. Tonight, De'Jaun Davis-Correia will take a giant step towards his dream of studying engineering robotics and medical research. De’Juan is... Read More

By Llenda Jackson-Leslie Today, International Human Rights Day, marks the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Too often anniversaries of landmark achievements become an occasion for celebration and remembrance rather than action. This shouldn’t be the case on Human Rights Day. There is still... Read More