I have never forgotten that period of time and hoped that it had faded, that our nation had changed.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEWPORT, R.I. — The Massachusetts police sergeant whose arrest of a Harvard professor created a national debate over racial profiling has been i...
Mario Ruiz | Posted 05.25.2011
While Crowley claimed that there was 'no tension' at the table, pictures of the event speak volumes: where Gates appears to be attentive and listening, Sgt. Crowley seems perturbed, slightly above it all, put upon.
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011
Remember when Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat down for the major news ...
Michael Maslansky | Posted 05.25.2011
We tested 15 of the most public apologies of the year to see what makes for a good apology and a bad apology and what we can learn from our A-list of apologists.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
The Gates arrest uncorked pent-up emotions and helped reveal a dirty national secret: racial profiling is real, it violates the highest ideals of our country, and it demeans the daily experiences of too many people.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.
Rinku Sen | Posted 05.25.2011
Two months later, the White House has released this photo, with President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, and James Crowley. So we're holding a caption contest. Bonus points if you make us ROTFL.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011
Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
The problem with discussing "issues of race," is that it dummies down the issue of racism to an individual level, when the real problem is at the macro level.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 05.25.2011
The beer bash culminated 10 days of non-stop media coverage. And Michael Jackson wasn't even involved.
AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 05.25.2011
CHILMARK, Mass. — Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sunday joked about his arrest by a white police officer, but also described rec...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
In truth, what maintains the walls between races, generations, genders and globally between nations is more "fearful aggression" than true hostility.
Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 05.25.2011
As Vice President Joe Biden joined them, Lucia Whalen, who happened to be passing by the White House, called 911 to report "strange activity on the South Lawn."
Frank Serpico | Posted 05.25.2011
The President of the United States should have known better than to have gotten drawn into a local-level issue.
Posted 05.25.2011
Dave lost one of his favorite monologue topics yesterday as the beer summit came and went. Once the president invited Henry Louis Gates and the man wh...
Joseph Freeman | Posted 05.25.2011
The Gates and Crowley get-together Thursday night, Twyman said, distracts the president from more pressing issues such as health care and might encourage kids to experiment with booze.
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama and Gates drank purely foreign libations while Crowley's choice, Blue Moon, is, like Obama, only half American. Is this really the message we need to convey as our economy struggles to climb out of recession?
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
Andrew Cuomo discovered that $33 billion in bonuses were paid by Wall Street firms during the height of the meltdown and the public bailout. Where's the outrage?
Zondra Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
This was a classic town vs. gown drama, a show-me-the-power move, and Gates slipped up.
Jim Watkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's visit an alternative universe where the protagonists behaved in a slightly more reasonable manner during their fateful confrontation.
Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011
While Crowley gets the 15 minutes of White House fame -- and a free beer -- that he inveigled out of the President -- perhaps a decent lawyer will come forward and offer to represent Lucia Whalen.
Anna Deavere Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
There are many practical ways that we can do race work, not just race talk in our daily lives. But should we go back to work the same way as before?
Pam Spaulding | Posted 05.25.2011
The beer summit confirms the role of class in this whole brouhaha. Beer is a social signifier that Gates, Obama, and Crowley are just regular guys shooting the sh*t.
Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
"Us v. them" arguments do not engage our rational reflective capacities, but instead inflame us with an exhortation to battle.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 04.03.2012