Crushing College Dreams
May 21, 2012 | On the very day that student loan debt reached the $1-trillion mark, Senate Republicans blocked a vote to extend the 3.4-percent interest rate on student loans for another year.
Articles by Marc Morial
Distorting Civil Rights History
February 6, 2012 | New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has insulted the generations of men and women who put their lives on the line for equal rights.
Get Jobless Americans Back to Work
January 9, 2012 | With apologies to David Letterman and millions of other habitual list makers, here's my top-10 wish list for this year.
Too Many American Children Live in Poverty
December 19, 2011 | The latest numbers are a moral outrage and a wake-up call.
A Long Shadow of Doubt: The Execution of Troy Davis
October 3, 2011 | As Justice Marshall once said, "the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come."
Separate but Unequal Borrowers
June 20, 2011 | A proposed mortgage qualification rule could end home ownership as we know it.
Trump Employs Birther Issue as a Weapon of Mass Distraction
May 2, 2011 | Anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see that Trump's birther claims are nothing more than an insincere sideshow designed only to promote his personal brand and boost his TV ratings.
Entrepreneurship by Necessity
March 21, 2011 | The recent growth of black-owned businesses continues the long history of African-American entrepreneurship in response to poverty, high unemployment, and discrimination.