The Hip Hop pioneers and legends just want to be recognized for their greatness and they want the true meaning of Hip Hop to be appreciated by all age groups. ...

The fight to protect children, not guns, is not over. ...

Scalia’s racial taunt has received the scorn it deserves. It makes more sense to apply his reasoning to the real “racial entitlements” that still scar our nation. ...

While some change has occurred, the places with a legacy of long-standing, entrenched and state-sponsored voting discrimination still have the most persistent, flagrant, contemporary records of discrimination in this country. ...

Once again the myriad crises, the State of Emergency in America's "dark ghettos" was missing from the agenda! ...

Never mind the study form the Institute of Medicine that finds that expanding Medicaid would actually save the state money and create 23,000 jobs. ...

In this crisis, we need the president’s leadership. ...

On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the outgoing governor of North Carolina, Beverly Perdue, issued an historic "Pardon of Innocence" to each member of the Wilmington Ten after a 40-year struggle for justice. ...

We sincerely hope that now that, at long last, a certain peace can be restored to the shattered lives of the surviving members of the Wilmington Ten, and to the family members Jerry Jacobs, William Joe Wright, Anne Sheppard and Connie Tindall all of whom are deceased. ...

Over the past few days we’ve all learned a bit more about 20 beautiful 6- and 7-year-olds who each seem as if they could have been any of our children or grandchildren ...