Search
2mins
Obama’s election surprised the NAACP president's grandfather—but not Jealous, who saw it as another "big and impossible dream" that black Americans would prove possible.
5mins
The man who organized MLK Jr.’s march on Washington was gay; so is Ben Jealous’s brother. The NAACP president thinks LGBT activists could find their staunchest allies in African-Americans—if they […]
1mins
Environmental catastrophe affects everyone, yet the green movement is mostly white. What can be done to bring minorities into the fold?
3mins
As old forms of discrimination disappear, new ones arise. The NAACP president describes an injustice that’s hitting particularly hard during the recession.
6mins
Education reform was "job one" for the NAACP in the last century. Sadly, despite progress in other areas, it still is.
As a kid, I loved my oversized reproduction of Action Comics #1, the June 1938 issue in which Superman, the first true superhero, burst onto the scene and changed the […]
2mins
Why is a subject long treated as a joke now drawing serious attention? Because white-collar criminals are coming forward with horror stories.
3mins
How the American justice system turns petty (and mostly black) criminals angry, desperate, and dangerous.
4mins
From battling the black incarceration rate to retooling public education, the NAACP’s 21st-century platform is nothing short of a "broad domestic human rights movement."
3mins
The NAACP president grew up hearing that civil rights was a settled issue, only to find that cancerous racial problems still persisted.
42mins
An interview with the president of the NAACP.
Scientists think toads may be able to predict earthquakes by sensing "pre-seismic perturbations in the ionosphere."
"If ever there was a scientific theory that is fundamentally historical, that purports to explain change over time, it is evolution through natural selection," writes Donald Worster.
A group of scientists is hoping to transform fast food waste oil into a high-tech polymer and create a "smart roof coating system" which will help to insulate homes.
The moral and legal debate over the use of military drone aircraft raises questions about how adequately the current laws of war have been adapted to the age of terrorism.
Researchers have come up empty in their quest to link genetic "copy-number variations" to diseases like breast cancer and diabetes.
Scientists have discovered the reason why the earth wasn't covered with a layer of ice four billion years ago, when the Sun's radiation was much less than it is today.
Researchers Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong have found that exposure to organic and environmentally friendly products leads people to act more altruistically.
The taste of many 2008 pinot noirs from California's Anderson Valley was tainted by the severe forest fires during the growing season that year.
Gary Bass looks at how Israel lost its alliance with France in 1967, and what that precedent might indicate for the country's relations with the Obama Administration.