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The muted response to Van Jones' resignation says volumes about where progressives stand in the Obama administration and whether so-called outsiders have a role to play in shaping the administration's policies. And what does the Van Jones story reveal about American politics?

The National Council of La Raza, a top Latino civil rights group, is taking a shot at RNC chair Michael Steele and several prominent GOP figures for skipping its ongoing annual conference while Democrats are basking in the contrast. Having nominated the first Latina to the Supreme Court and sending no end of speakers to the La Raza conference, they're in like Flynn with Latino voters, they hope. But things are not so simple. The day after the La Raza affair there was another gathering in NY, and Latinos came out in big numbers.

The NAACP turns 100 and the civil rights organization is celebrating this week in New York. Looking back, looking ahead what?s changed and what hasn't? With the financial crisis disproportionately impacting African Americans, the first black president in the White House, and the nomination hearings of Sonia Sotomayor we review the past few days and the last 100 years. Hilary Shelton, Director of the Washington, D.C.

Arturo Schomburg once described his friend and fellow bibliophile Hubert Harrison as a man who was ahead of his time. Ahead of his time and largely relegated to the margins of history. Until now. Jeffrey Perry has written the first volume of a biography of the radical activist, orator, and public figure, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry says that Harrison's iconoclasm, race, and working class roots all meant that he wasn't given the serious scholarly attention he deserves.