What better way to shift the focus of what could potentially be a very embarrassing moment for the McCain/Palin camp that to create a diversion? The flack that veteran journalist Gwen Ifill is taking over her not-yet released book, The Breakthrough, is just that, a way to have everyone thinking...

Shock of all shocks, another poll released this weekend (this one by AP-Yahoo News, in partnership with Stanford University) has shown that there are some people who are not going to vote for Sen. Barack Obama for President because he is black. While that is no surprise, racism is still...

Today, former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele accompanied Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain to the NAACP convention in Cincinnati. Steele became the first African-American to chair a state Republican party when he was elected chair of the Maryland Republican Party in 2000.

Steele has been mentioned in some Republican...

In this week's episode of "Racially Insensitive Ideas Gone Wrong," the New Yorker has proclaimed that a cover depicting Sen. Barack Obama with an enormously drawn head wrapped in a turban and wife Michelle as some type of heat-packing militant Barbie as "satire." (There was also the photo of Osama...