Colonial sins return to haunt former world powers in Kenya

NBC News' Ian Johnston, Nancy Ing and Ploy Bunlueslip

LONDON - It is a court case that could reverberate round the world: Three elderly Kenyans are suing the U.K. government for torture inflicted by the colonial regime during the African country's struggle for independence...

No money for forced sterilization victims in NC

Martha Waggoner, Associated Press

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom it deemed 'feeble-minded' or otherwise undesirable..

How black farmers remain a GOP punching bag

David A. Love

OPINION - Michele Bachmann, like the GOP in general, has conveniently forgotten the USDA's history of racism as far as African-Americans are concerned...

Earth to Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama is no Black Panther

Dr. Boyce Watkins

OPINION - Limbaugh recently claimed that President Obama has deliberately allowed unemployment to grow in the United States as 'payback' for slavery and oppression...

Limbaugh's 'reparations' crowing hits a new, racist low

theGrio

Once in a while, the dog-whistle messages from the far-right are enough to make one's ears bleed...

Innocent Texans spend decades in prison, await reparations

theGrio

Texas leads the nation in DNA exonerations. According to The Innocence Project - a legal organization that handles these cases - 241 prisoners have been cleared nationwide in the past 20 years. Thirty-eight were convicted in Texas...