Cory Booker

Named for the Thirteenth Amendment, “13th” will premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday before making its nationwide debut on Netflix October 7.

New York City’s “Ban the Box” law is one of the country’s most comprehensive measures aimed at helping ex-offenders secure meaningful employment after they serve their time—and it could encourage the entire nation to board the bandwagon.

“Everybody’s getting paid, but Raheem still can’t read.”

Moderation seems the unavoidable tax for African-American Democratic candidates looking to win statewide offices in states like New Jersey.

If Booker wins, there will be three African-Americans serving in the U.S. Senate, the largest number serving at same time.

Colorlines readers advise Mayor Cory Booker how to eat on a food stamp budget.

For the next seven days, and at a time when Congress is considering $16 billion in cuts to the federal program, Booker will put himself in the same position as 850,000 other New Jerseyans who receive food stamps each month.

Booker’s decision came by way of a challenge after Twitter user “Twitwit” told him that “nutrition is not a responsibility of the government.”