"Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind in the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon," says Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow."

Watch more of our conversation with author Michelle Alexander about crime, the war on drugs, and the disproportionately high number of African-Americans in prison.

"The houses are not just 'given' to the families," says Dr. Brenda Williams, "They have to work for it. They have to earn it." She and her husband have been using their own money to provide homes to disadvantaged families.

The Southern Baptists try to broaden their appeal, the Catholic Bishops maintain their sex abuse policy, and the White House defends the US military mission in Libya.

Donating organs "is considered an altruistic, charitable act, and all the major religions look favorably upon that behavior," says ethicist Robert Veatch.

"These schools are the jewels of their neighborhood, and we need to save them," says Susan Work, president of Holy Family Ministries in Chicago.

"That old singing, that old praying which I love so much—that is the great strength of my being, of my writing," says the author of "A Lesson Before Dying" and many other critically acclaimed books.

Read an excerpt from the award-winning 1971 novel “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” by Ernest J. Gaines.

During the Montgomery bus boycott "it was black Christians teaching white Christians what it meant to be Christian," says a white Lutheran pastor who joined Martin Luther King Jr. and others in a movement to change the world.

"We do this not to create Catholics, but because we are Catholic. It’s the social justice teachings of the church that drive us," says WJA director of counseling services Ann Clark. The tuition-free middle school explicitly addresses the spiritual and moral development of its students.