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Despite being home to the highest percentage of African Americans of any state in the country, Mississippi hasn’t elected an African American candidate to statewide office since 1890.

Ten years after Katrina, recovery in New Orleans is mixed – divided in familiar patterns between white and black, rich and poor. The same groups that suffered the brunt of the storm still struggle.

The recent 5th Circuit Court decision in a case that challenged the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has important, positive implications for the government’s defense of the pending challenges to the Obama administration’s 2014 immigration policies.

Half a century after the Freedom Summer, black Americans face new challenges.

A hashtag campaign confronts the racial biases in the images we see and challenges the opinions we embrace of young, black Americans. This is social media at its best, offering a real-time counter-narrative to the media’s typically negative and stereotypical imagery of young black people as something to be feared.