Health Care Concerns: Gap Between Blacks, Whites Widens In Chicago
A widening gulf in the health status of blacks and whites in Chicago comes even as disparities between the two races nationally have remained relative...
A widening gulf in the health status of blacks and whites in Chicago comes even as disparities between the two races nationally have remained relative...
The March of Diversity | Saturday, December 19, 2009 | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
With Hispanics providing the principal engine, the nation's minority population is not only increasing but also dispersing beyond the big cities where...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living
The haves have less infertility than the have-nots, which is not surprising considering its causes include poor overall health condition, smoking and obesity.
David Kaufman | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
Gracing the cover of January's Golf Digest will be none other than Pres. Barack Obama, joined by disgraced golfer Tiger Woods and the oy-vey-inducing tag-line "10 Tips Obama Can Take from Tiger."
Bella DePaulo | Posted 12.12.2009 | Living
Marriage is not for everyone, and people who want to stay single should not be targeted with singlism because of it.
Richard Albert | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
Years from now, when history strokes its pen to tell the story of the 2008 presidential election, how will it capture in words a moment whose full meaning can be conveyed only with emotion?
Caitlin Watt | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
Advocates and activists should take this opportunity to make their voices heard on the pressing need to implement CERD's mandate to eliminate all forms of discrimination at this crucial turning point in American history.
Politico | Nia-Malika Henderson & Jonathan Martin | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
After last year's historic presidential campaign, a new season of opportunity seemed at hand for African-American candidates in the South. Not only ha...
David A. Love | Posted 12.09.2009 | World
As we enter this holiday season, Jews around the world will celebrate Hanukah. The Jewish community is a diverse one, a multicultural and multiracial assemblage, by no means monolithic, representing millions of people throughout the world.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.09.2009 | Home
The Congressional Black Caucus got another painful reminder that President Obama is not black President Obama. In a press interview Obama bluntly s...
Robert Slayton | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
The old definition of institutional racism was, and still is, a very good one. Simply put, it was racism by habit, rather than by intent.
Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 12.12.2009 | New York
While most conversations about race inspire deep ambivalence if not outright silence, Mamet converts the stage into a raucous racial seminar jacked up on truth serum.
Meizhu Lui | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
We can get the economy to work and work for all of us, by putting the American people to work. We're shovel ready!
Mia Charlene White | Posted 12.04.2009 | Entertainment
I can't accept that Precious will accelerate the stereotyping of Black women, of big women, of young women of color, of single moms, of urban places. Doesn't every movie reinforce some stereotype?
Cynthia Gordy | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Young black men between the ages of 16 and 24 who are facing joblessness at 34.5 percent. It didn't strike me that the issue ranks particularly high on the White House radar.
Mike Barber | Posted 12.03.2009 | Entertainment
Since more whites than non-whites are shown throughout our pop culture as the people effecting change, the lesson inferred is that these individual cases we see in movies and on TV are the rule, when they're really the exception.
Cliff Albright | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Research shows that when asked about the racial makeup of assistance programs, most people assume far higher percentages of people of color than is actually the case, and these perceptions impact political support.
Scott Kurashige | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
We ought to demand more from Obama than the tired trope that we can only achieve peace by waging war. This means we need to challenge ourselves.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
Racial inequality is both individual and collective. The crushing levels of incarceration and police repression that Black men endure take a toll on Black communities and families as well.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
Of all things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving -- I'm thankful that challenging the government's course and trying to put better ideas on the table are unabashedly patriotic again.
AP | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)-- A federal judge has ordered Connecticut officials to promote 14 firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landma...
AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books
JACKSON, Miss. — Gene Dattel grew up in the segregated South and was one of the few Mississippians enrolled at Yale University in 1962 when his ...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to FBI data released Monday. Overall...
Politics Daily | David Sessions | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
A restaurant in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville that re-named itself "Obama Fried Chicken" in March is back in the spotlight after it appeare...
Jarrett Murphy | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
Not only did being black or Hispanic hurt your chances of getting a decent loan, but simply living in areas with high concentrations of blacks and Hispanics did, too.
chicagotribune.com | Deborah L. Shelton | Posted 12.18.2009 | Chicago