Elena Kagan has been a trailblazer throughout her career. She’s recognized as one of the brightest legal minds of her generation.

For the price of a tube of toothpaste, a life is lost.

I have been asking myself and others, “Where has the Movement gone?” Where are we as a people headed? It appears in many ways that we are running in place or even going backwards.

In the long drawn-out battle over Walmart in the city of Chicago, there have been few winners.

President Barack Obama kisses Dr. Dorothy Height during a meeting on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Jan. 18. President Obama met with a group of African American seniors and their grandchildren on the legacy of the civil rights movement.

There are some who feel that the digital divide has been breached, and everyone who wants access to the Internet can have it without problem.

In the centuries since African Americans first arrived on our shores, they have known the bitterness of slavery and oppression, the hope of progress, and the triumph of the American Dream. African American history is an essential thread of the American narrative that traces our nation's enduring struggle to perfect itself.

In an unexpected show of force and backbone, Black members of the Democratic State Central Committee have fired off a letter to Illinois State House Speaker Michael Madigan, challenging him on his proposal to eliminate the office of lieutenant governor.

The Feb. 2 primary election is a crossroads election, one that will set the stage for how Illinois, and Chicago, face the future.

Three years ago the Supreme Court of this nation rendered in simple, eloquent and unequivocal language a decision which will long be stenciled on the mental sheets of succeeding generations.