Once home to good manufacturing jobs, East Oakland today is a microcosm of the structural components of racial health disparities. One community-led health project could be a model for the future.

Housing crisis? Corporate giveaways? It’s already happened in the Big Easy. There, out of demolitions and displacement, has come a new demand: housing as human right.

Former New Orleans residents are priced out of the city’s new housing market.

Will Allen, a 2008 Colorlines Magazine Innovator, was recently awarded the “genius grant” $500,000 as a 2008 MacArthur Fellow.

Blacks and Latinos are locked out, but prep classes may counter the racism of low expectations.

It may be baffling to some people why the American public hasn’t become outraged by the fact that our government conducts torture in our name, even in the wake of Abu Ghraib and the transformation of once-obscure terms like “rendition” and “waterboarding” into the vernacular of popular culture. Is it because many of us have been kept in the dark by a combination of the government’s secrecy and the media’s negligence?