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.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
A new study finds that hate crimes actually declined slightly in 2008, despite an economic recession, increasing demographic diversification, and an apparent rise in the number of active hate groups.
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. The number of homeless st...
James Bell | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
Has it become an accepted fact of life in the United States that the machinery of justice applies almost solely to people of color?
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
For the first time in a long time, White women are more likely to have jobs than Black women. Why are Black women falling further behind?
Deborah Plummer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
As a nation characterized by a high percentage of Americans who identify themselves as religious, one might assume that we would witness less signs of spiritual immaturity than we are experiencing lately.
Washington Post | Keith B. Richburg | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
As the country gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president, whose first official visit here starts Sunday, the Chinese are confron...
AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
SAN DIEGO — The housing market welcomed a bigger share of first-time buyers and single women this past year, while a majority of sellers resorte...
AP | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA — A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children p...
Rinku Sen | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
The Applied Research Center has released a Green Equity Toolkit to help community organizations, public agencies and individuals maximize the shared benefits of green economy jobs.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
I cannot imagine the Dickensian horror city parents today go through to get their kids into decent schools. Now Chief Mathemagician Ron Huberman plans to select enrollment to these schools based on family income.
David Finkle | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
Of the 35 productions running or opening shortly -- including Hamlet and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie -- at least 10 offerings have a rainbow-coalition hue.
Deborah Douglas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
The Asian-adoptee identity crisis reported in the Times might finally lend credence to what black social workers have been saying all along: Ethnic and racial identity matters.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.
Celeste Ng | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style. Because if a review compared me to Amy Tan on those measures, rather than on just our shared culture, I'd be proud.
Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
Well, it's finally happened. Dr. Mark Greene is back on television this weekend in the NYC Marathon. And while Anthony Edwards is sure this "five hour...
Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.
Bill de Blasio | Posted 10.24.2009 | New York
Whether it's an interracial couple in Louisiana denied a marriage, or that blacks and Hispanics are 90% of the people frisked by NYC police, no place is immune to our history of racial struggle.
Scott Kurashige | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics