My suburban street is a picture of American diversity. Nine ethnicities from around the world inhabit this residential area: blacks, whites, Hispanics...
The pregame ritual happened every spring between 1951 and 1956. I bounded down the stairs of my family's two-flat in Brooklyn, a leather mitt covering my left hand, and excitedly knocked on my grandparents' door. Ready to go, Pop?
The wife of a Republican county commissioner in rural Kansas who has been under fire for a comment he made two weeks ago, explained Tuesday that her h...
A Republican county commissioner in rural Kansas is resisting calls for his resignation after a comment he made during a public meeting last week. ...
To ensure the vitality of our nation, it's continued progress, to more fundamentally remember who we are and honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, and all those who died fighting for us, we must remember....we all have a role to play.
If heaven is going to include all races, it's encouraging to see our faith communities beginning to reflect that reality in the present.
I would like to share a little story about race. It is nothing and everything, merely an incident neither inconsequential nor unique.
Now we have a psychological explanation for this counterintuitive phenomenon of self-labeling. It all has to do with power, and perceptions of power, in society.
By the first years after 1900, tens of thousands of African Americans had been sold by southern state governments. This isn't an easy story for Americans to accept. The idea that basic freedom was denied to an enormous population until the middle of the 20th century fits nowhere in the triumphalist accounts we prefer.
These days, Sherrod has returned to the work she was doing before all the publicity. She still lives with her husband, Charles, in Albany, Georgia, where they raised their children and where she still spends her days working with poor and minority farmers.
The 2008 presidential race had purported to forever erase the conversation about race in the United States, but here a conversation about race compelled my producing partner and I to create a satiric, mockumentary-style study of race relations in the Ivy League.
What better way to show up this Black History Month, than as allies demonstrating that we understand that black history is white history too? A history we honor by committing to structural change for the long haul.
A post-racial society is more like a continuous improvement process that requires incremental improvements over time rather than a "breakthrough" improvement that happens all at once as the result of a black American as president.
Last month, Jet -- a magazine marketed to African-American population -- featured their first gay male couple in their wedding announcements. The announcement may be a sign that African-American attitudes towards gay marriage may be turning around.
The controversy over Giglio continues, while a new survey shows that a decreasing number of Americans agree with his view that homosexuality is a sin, and a new report shows that Americans get sicker and die younger than their peers in developed nations.
Let's strive harder in 2013 to remember all are equal under the red, white and blue and that neither the green in our wallets or the color of our skin should decide how we are treated and what we can achieve. Who we are inside should.
Humor is a powerful tool. Rapier wit can weaken an enemy as effectively as a bayonet to the chest. It can revitalize. It can trivialize. It can elevate. It can heal. It can hurt.
This article is a part of Faith Shift, a Huffington Post series on how changes in demographics, culture, politics and theology are transforming religi...
Notwithstanding the importance of the economy, the historic issue of race and race relations in America continues to be the common denominator in the elections of 2008 and again today in 2012.
By focusing on the white vote and ignoring the non-white vote, Mitt Romney has given the significant and growing non-white voter block in America their decision: vote for the non-white guy, he's one of us.
It is not the divisive, inflammatory and polarizing issue that it once was. The issue largely fell off the nation's radar scope nearly a decade ago when the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the University of Michigan's right to use race as a factor in increasing minority numbers at the school.
The commentators who have flooded television, blogs and Twitter with their horror over then-Senator Obama's 2007 speech at Hampton University are manifesting that age-old anxiety that if African Americans somehow address each other - especially on political topics - then it must be about division, separatism and conspiracy.
The time has arrived for racism to be openly and honestly discussed, denounced, and deposed of. If our country is to remain united, these unlawful injustices and practices must be addressed and policies must be enacted to curtail the centuries of damage already done.
Our nation's foundational creed that "all men are created equal" has not always been reflected in our actions. Those actions have tended to marginalize those who are not white, not male, and not heterosexual.
In this day of the viral "empty chair," the church community and the interfaith community must speak to the "empty chair" and what it represents -- the invisible racism and voter suppression in America.
