Michael Steele: Some White Republicans Are 'Scared Of Me'
The following article was produced by the Raw Story and written by David Edwards. Since being elected the first African-American RNC chairman, Michae...
The following article was produced by the Raw Story and written by David Edwards. Since being elected the first African-American RNC chairman, Michae...
Alfred Gingold | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
150 years after his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown looms ever larger in the national psyche, either a great martyr to a just and necessary cause, or our first domestic terrorist.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
A few days ago, I received a notice from a friend informing me that the Southern Poverty Law Center had included me in this week's HateWatch. I linke...
Carol M. Swain | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Instead of providing readers with a systematic analysis and hard data supporting its warning about a growing threat, the SPLC's report was chocked full of vague generalities and unnamed sources.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
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.
Emma Coleman Jordan | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
The Gates-Crowley controversy offers an opportunity to gain a takeaway that might be beneficial far beyond police-citizen relations, or even black-white relations: regular mental health checks.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
This morning on Fox and Friends, Fox host Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being "a racist." The group was discussing the recent Gates controv...
Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Gates' and Crowley's confrontation was a clash of egos in which pride and prejudice -- on both sides -- came into play.
Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
Countless black and Latino men need Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to tutor all of the U.S., in what President Barack Obama calls, this teachable moment .
Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Was this an instance of racial profiling? Did Gates overreact to a reasonable police request? The truth is that we simply do not have enough information to know what really happened in this case.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living
You just know that, if all the players -- the neighbors, the "intruders," the cops -- had been white, or if they'd all been black, the whole story would have played out differently.
Essence | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Eric Holder could have had a career as a rock star if he never bothered to study law. The United States Attorney General stood centerstage in front of...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Any judgment that differs from mine, to the extent it differs from mine, does not reflect reality. I am White Guy.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
This book is a warning and a wake-up call for Americans who cherish the civil rights vision of an integrated America, a common humanity, and equality before God and law.
Michael Russnow | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
I've been noticing over the past several years a tendency for the Media to depict racial togetherness in a manner that doesn't come close to representing reality.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
According to the new definition of racism -- let's call it neo-racism -- anyone who believes we have not achieved racial equality can be considered a racist.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics
The verdict would actually make more sense if the teens had been acquitted of all charges. In that case, the implication is that the boys had nothing to do with the fight or Luis Ramirez's death.
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media
For the Times -- and most of the media -- "Race Relations" means "Are white and black people chatting along fine at the office water cooler, the Pilates class, and the corner bar?"
The New York Times | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's presidency seems to be altering the public perception of race relations in the United States. Two-thirds of Americans now say race rela...
Carey Alexander | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics
Southern Republicans are bringing a case before the Supreme Court, asking for an end to Justice Department oversight of election procedures. If successful, the result could have a chilling effect on the marrow of racial equity in the United States,
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
The very public display of Ty'Sheoma Bethea's struggle illustrates the heartlessness of Governor Sanford's posturing against accepting badly needed stimulus money for South Carolina.
George Alexander | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
While celebrating Black History Month will not erase bigotry, it remains one of the all-important cornerstones to continuing any meaningful discussion of race relations in our society.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
Sean Delonas is not a racist. I certainly don't know that his cartoon was racist beyond a reasonable doubt. So, I would like to hear from him what he was thinking when he drew it.
Ari Bendersky | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago
Are we able to discuss a person's physical attributes without it setting off a racial firestorm?
Katie Halper | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
These two Southerners share a striking resemblance and a gift for race-based humor. But could they also share genes? Or alleles, at the very least?
David Edwards | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics