Under the Status of Forces Agreement awaiting passage, private military contractors would be subject to Iraqi criminal and civil law.

In a courtroom out of the public eye, and with prisoners allowed only limited access to the proceedings, the judge still found no reason to hold them.

If President-elect Barack Obama truly plans to make good on his promise to close the American gulag, he should start by heeding this advice.

A disturbing wave of post-election hate crimes across the country shows that the cancer of American racism is far from cured.

Institutionalized homophobia in American society is definitely a white monopoly.

(CNN) -- A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

RALEIGH - The head of the state's NAACP chapter today called for a "strong response and punishment" for the N.C. State University students who painted racist and threatening graffiti aimed at President-elect Obama.

It seems the California Supreme Court will again be asked to hear the issue of same-sex marriage, according to the Los Angeles Times.

It sounded like such a good idea. The National Urban League, the well-respected civil-rights organization, surveyed about 5,500 U.S. workers assessing the effectiveness of corporate-diversity programs from these employees' perspectives as well as their company leaders'. The results of this survey, first published in 2005, have been cited as examples of what employees think about diversity and what "progressive" companies are doing.