The Fight — and the Right — to Vote

TV host Bill Moyer talks with attorney Sherrilyn Ifill , president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund about the ongoing vote suppression controversy. Watch that interview below:

Charles Barkley Goes Off on ‘Unintelligent’ Black People

Charles Barkley had some pretty tough words on the radio this week for “unintelligent” African-Americans who seem a bit too eager to attack other black people for not being supposedly black enough. During an appearance on Afternoons with Anthony Gargano and Rob Ellis, Barkley was asked to react to a report this week that teammates of Seattle Seahawks player Russell Wilson don’t think he’s black enough. This really set off Barkley. Listen to his brutally honest comments below:

'Ebola racism': how the world is discriminating against Africans

Increasing anxiety and fear over the Ebola virus has led to what many commentators have dubbed "Ebola racism".

"People are being shunned and mocked for having visited, or even for simply having been born in, Africa – and anywhere in Africa will do, afflicted with Ebola or not," writes The Intercept's Andrew Jones.

He argues that the "hysteria" surrounding the virus in the West is an example of "ignorant discrimination that immigrants in general and Africans specifically have endured for decades".

So, how are Africans being discriminated against?

Read more: 'Ebola racism': how the world is discriminating against Africans

Warren Ballentine convicted of mortgage fraud

A suburban Chicago lawyer who hosted a syndicated radio talk show has been found guilty of mortgage fraud in a scheme to defraud lenders out of nearly $10 million.

A federal jury took less than an hour Friday to find Warren Ballentine guilty.

Ballentine was accused of conspiring to secure more than two dozen fraudulent mortgage loans.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports prosecutors showed Ballentine, who broadcast from Durham, North Carolina, and others used straw buyers to secure mortgages on 28 properties they never intended to live in.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros told jurors loan applications Ballentine submitted were "shot through with lies."

Defense attorney Lewis Myers says the verdict against Ballentine will be appealed.

The 43-year-old's radio show was broadcast online after being dropped from syndication last year.

Will Muriel E. Bowser get enough black support to become the next mayor of Washington D.C.?

*NOTE: a recent Washington Post poll shows Bowser with a 12 point lead.

As the only African American Democrat in the District’s mayoral race, Bowser is counting on resounding support from black voters, who account for nearly half the city’s population. Just last week, President Obama, the country’s highest-ranking Democrat and preeminent black politician, endorsed her campaign.

Yet as the race hurtles into its final days, interviews with Democratic activists, community leaders and voters suggest that the city’s African American electorate is far more fragmented than in previous elections, when it largely coalesced around a single candidate.

With polls suggesting a tightened race, the consequences of that splintering could be crucial, particularly for Bowser, who is also vying with Catania and Schwartz for white votes.

Read more: For black voters in D.C.’s mayoral election, this time the choice isn’t so clear