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National Urban League Kicks Off Conference In Chicago

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 08.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cherlye Jackson, National Urban League Convention, National Urban League Chicago, Race, Civil Rights, Marc Morial, Biden Urban League, National Urban League, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Ninety-nine years after it was founded to serve the needs of poor blacks in the nation's cities, the National Urban League's work is a...

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Back to Black Man 101

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blacks, President Obama, Profiling, Police Brutality, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Terrance Heath

Anger, if you are a minority, is dangerous. If you are a woman, a person of color, gay, etc., your movements must be calm, your voice must be modulated, and your anger must never show.

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Gates Got Arrested Because He Hurt Sgt. Crowley's Feelings?!

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cambridge, Police, President Barack Obama, Racism, Michael Fauntroy, Hillary Clinton, Sgt. Crowley, Joe Biden, Race, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Skip Gates, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

For every Henry Louis Gates, with resources, notoriety, and connections, there are countless others like him who have to live with the reality of racism in anonymity.

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Jason Linkins

Fox News Reporter Asks Tough Questions On Obama Beer Diplomacy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Barack Obama, Beer Diplomacy, Beer, Henry Louis Gates, James Crowley, Obama Beer, Race, Media News

This Thursday night, the White House will host the most important Single-Serving Beer Drink-Off in the history of America as Obama imbibes with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Crowley. At stake: racial transcendence for all America.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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Mark Another Coup for David Axelrod

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Obama Centrist, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

Why do economic and racial segregation still dog us in 2009 -- the forty-fifth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act -- and what, if anything, can be done?

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A Teachable Moment: Pride and Prejudice

Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cambridge Massachusetts, Race, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, Politics News
Denise Dennis

Gates' and Crowley's confrontation was a clash of egos in which pride and prejudice -- on both sides -- came into play.

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Obama's Gates Trainwreck

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Backlash, Henry Louis Gates, President Obama, Harvard, sgt.james Crawley, Race, Health Care, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama spoke from the heart and said what needed to be said about the thorny issue of racial profiling. No apology needed for that. He just said it in the wrong case and at the wrong time.

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UPDATE: Gates, Crowley To Join Obama For Beers On Thursday

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Gates, David Axelrod, James Crowley, Obama Beer, Gates Cambridge, Harvard, Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Robert Gibbs, Racial Profiling, Gates Arrest, Politics News

UPDATE: There are several reports that the beer diplomacy between President Obama, Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

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Why America Needs the Rage of the Privileged Black Class

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Criminal Justice System, Police, Obama Crowley Gates, Obama-Henry-Louis-Gates, Racial Profiling, Obama Race, Politics News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Given the opportunity for improved police-community relations, it's actually a good thing that Sgt. Crowley didn't know who he was "messing" with.

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Race and Reason

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Crowley, Racism, Gates Arrest, Skip Gates, Race, Police, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

When a police officer approaches a home where a burglary may be in progress, it is both rational and racist for him to think differently about the situation depending on whether the suspects are black or white.

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Obama Was Right About the Gates Arrest

Adam Winkler | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Race, President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, James Crowley, Disorderly Conduct, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Politics News
Adam Winkler

One thing is clear: Gates did not violate any law. Under Massachusetts law, which the police officer was supposedly enforcing, yelling at a police officer is not illegal.

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Jay-Z: "Every Step You Take, They Remind You, You Ghetto"

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deval Patrick, Barack Obama, Police, Profiling, Henry Louis Gates, Harvard Professor Arrest, Sergeant Gates, Harvard, Race, Cambridge, Charles Ogletree, Grammy Awards, Politics News
Jennifer Donahue

The problem isn't so much what happened with Crowley and Gates. A greater problem is the divide between famous and easily identifiable people of color and those with no defense.

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Gates-Crowley Battle Not About Race, but Rather Citizens' Rights

Ray Hanania | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Extremism, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge, Fanaticism, Police, President Barack Obama, Massachusetts, Citizens' Rights, James Crowley, Race, Home Break-In, Politics, Sean Hannity, Racism, Glenn Beck, Henry Louis Gates, Health Care, Arrest, Politics News
Ray Hanania

When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.

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The Conversation We Need to Have

Karen Finney | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holocaust Museum Shooting, Race, Henry Louis Gates, Post Racial America, Post-Racial, Politics News
Karen Finney

The incident in Cambridge comes on the heels of a number of incidents over the past several months that reminded us of the unfinished business race and prejudice in our country.

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Gates and Crowley: Through a Racist, Classist Lens Darkly

Lennard Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, James M. Crowley, Professor Henry Lewis Gates, Skip Gates, Race, Class, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Politics News
Lennard Davis

If we make the assumption that racism was in play in this event, but that Crowley was not necessarily a racist, we might also assume that class and social status was at play as well.

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The Gates/Crowley Rorschach Test

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Police, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Race, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Michael J. O'Neil

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.

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White Cop, Black Professor, Bi-Racial President: An Explosive Media Combination

Peter Daou | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama, Race, Matt Lauer, Gates, Racial Profiling, Health Care Reform, Media, Henry Louis Gates, Health Care, Media News
Peter Daou

When Obama weighed in, the Gates story went from newsworthy to explosive. Is this another instance of the media's lopsided priorities, where a debate over health care is overshadowed by a minor police incident?

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How the Subway to the Sea Could Change Los Angeles' Culture

Anna Kelner | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Subway, Socioeconomic Class, Traffic, Neighborhoods, Cars, Subway to the Sea, Pollution, Race, Los Angeles, Green News
Anna Kelner

A subway could not only cleanse Los Angeles' polluted air and clear its congested roads, but could also radically change the way Angelinos relate to one another.

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Advertising And Modern Minstrelsy: What's Funny About Race Roleplaying? (VIDEO)

Christine Huang | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Media, Entertainment, Race, Advertising, TV Advertising, Taco Bell, Media News
Christine Huang

When is race roleplay and cultural appropriation okay? When is it acceptable, and when is it derogatory?

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Jim Wallis

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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What the NAACP Means to Me

Rinku Sen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Multiracial, Immigration, Race, Naacp Centennial, Immigration Debate, Naacp, Politics News
Rinku Sen

The essential challenge facing the NAACP is being a racial justice leader in a multiracial nation.

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Our Children Are Watching

Marie Wilson | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Girls, Supreme Court, Women, Race, Gender, Confirmation Hearings, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Marie Wilson

These proceedings may serve to discourage a generation of women from following in Sotomayor's trailblazing footsteps precisely because of the treatment they are witnessing.

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Wise Women Unite! What Sotomayor Should Have Said

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Racial Politics, Latinos, Women's Rights, Women, Senator Leahy, Latino Politics, Senator Sessions, Sonia Sotomayor, Obama Administration, Race, White Men, Confirmation Hearings, Politics News
C. Nicole Mason

Racial and ethnic minorities and women are the only groups asked to check their identity at the door. It is assumed that once given access to power, they will try to funnel those resources to their own kind.

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GOP Senators: Sotomayor Firefighter Plaintiff Is Victim Of "Smear Campaign"

The New Haven Independent | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Haven Firefighters, Sotomayor Confirmation, Ricci Smear, People for the American Way, Race, Ricci v. Destefano, Americans With Disabilities Act, Frank Ricci, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Ricci, Supreme Court, Orrin Hatch, Senator John Cornyn, Politics News

As firefighter Frank Ricci arrived in the nation's capital for his moment in the spotlight, U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch came to the his defense against an a...

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