Montel Williams seeks medical marijuana bill
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - He says he has been living with pain in his lower extremities, face and side for years and adds marijuana provides the only relief he can find...
Jailed Miss. sisters freed but must trade kidney
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The unusual agreement has alarmed some experts, who have raised legal and ethical questions...
Bad timing for first execution on Obama's watch
OPINION - Currently there are nearly five dozen prisoners sitting on federal death row. The majority of the condemned are African-American...
Ga. prisoner protest puts spotlight on institutionalized slavery
OPINION - The sharp growth in incarceration has left more black people in prison today than there were black people enslaved 1850...
Philly rappers take a stand against school violence
"I'm from where they're from I can talk about those experiences on the street, but I am a businessman now. I wouldn't take nothing back. It's shaped me as a man..."
Finally! Obama issues first pardons of his presidency
WASHINGTON (AP) - No well-known people were on the list and most of the crimes seemed low-grade. Five involved drug or liquor offenses...
Why Obama has been so stingy with pardons
OPINION - Hammering Obama as insensitive, uncaring, or timid in granting reforms, ignores the fact that he is in a precarious political box..
Black opponents of pot legalization are lost in the weeds
OPINION - The irony is that law enforcement groups which nearly unanimously oppose Proposition 19 do not dispute the racially disproportionate arrest figures...
Why Anita Hill's story still hits a nerve
OPINION - To see this accomplished black female lawyer vilified as a lying, bitter, scorned woman picking on a nice black man married to a white woman was just jaw dropping...
Lawsuit filed over Arizona's ethnic studies law
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies...
