President Obama Took Another Big Step Toward Ending Grotesque Drug Sentencing Laws
*A week before Christmas in 2013, President Obama sent a modest shot across the bow of the harmful, wasteful, and …
President Obama Speaks to NAACP; Announces Push for Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform
*The president is taking his attacks on racism that has effected African Americans disproportionately one step further. …
Removal of Confederate Flag Means End of 15 Year Boycott of South Carolina by NAACP
*On Saturday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced the end to its 15-year …
Turner’s Two Cents: Empty Grace in Confederate Flag Vote (WATCH)
*I’m thrilled that the Confederate battle flag has been removed from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse. But …
Jenny Horne, S. C. Republican, Cried a River in Speech to Remove C-Flag (Videos)
*Yes, the Confederate Flag has come down. Hooray! But it’s important to reveal that there are some people, …
Eric Garner’s Widow Accepts Slightly Higher ($5.9M) Settlement from NYC
*As we reported earlier, Esaw Garner, the widow of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who was killed by NYPD officers …
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Trump is GOP’s Trump Card
*Donald Trump is again the GOP’s go to guy to breathe life into a swatch of disconnected and alienated GOP hard right …
Civil Rights Leaders File Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against Robert E. Lee School in Long Beach
*Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President and Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights …
Bill Cosby’s Black Conservative Defenders: Accusers Are ‘Opportunistic’
*Members of the Project 21 black conservative leadership network are weighing in following news that documents in a …
What is the President’s Racial Legacy? President Obama to be First sitting President to visit a Federal Prison
*President Barack Obama has announced he will be the first sitting U.S. President to visit a federal prison. This is a …
Group Wants Obama to Rescind Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom
*The pressure is on for President Obama to take back Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sexual assault …
Pres. Obama Headed to Federal Prison…for HBO’s ‘VICE’
*Last month, President Obama said criminal justice reform would be one of his priorities during the remainder of his …
Being Half-Mexican is Not Stopping Stacey Dash from Supporting Trump (WATCH)
*Donald Trump may have more than his share of critics with his recent remarks about Mexican immigrants, but Stacey Dash …
Baltimore Police Commissioner Batts Fired by Mayor Rawlings-Blake (WATCH)
*(Via Baltimore Sun) – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake fired Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts Wednesday, saying …
It’s Coming Down! South Carolina Approves Bill to Remove Confederate Flag from Capitol
*(Via MSN News) – The South Carolina House approved a bill removing the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds, …