This is the inaugural post on the Discrimination & National Security Initiative's new web-log. The purpose of this blog is, as noted on the right column, "to offer news and commentary in a fluid, dynamic format while our more substantive reports are forthcoming."

Specifically, we will be posting articles from the popular press, cases, opinion pieces, essays, and other insightful bits of information as often as possible so long as these materials are relevant to the central focus of this research effort or generally implicate racial discrimination of targeted minority groups.

When appropriate, we will open up comments so as to permit readers to offer up their own take on the posted item. We invite readers to submit something that we may have missed. Our desire is to keep this blog as involved and informative as possible, and really to keep the Initiative as a whole very active even when our reports are pending.

We thank you for your interest, and hope to earn your patronage.