Captain America underscores the fact that we clearly have trouble confronting our own past, but we have no problem talking about other people's problems. Boy, did we get on those South Africans for apartheid!
AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 09.26.2011
LOS ANGELES — The NAACP plans a big push to increase minority turnout in the 2012 elections, hoping to gain political influence and turn back wh...
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 09.26.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A former police officer who gunned down an unarmed, mentally disabled man at the foot of a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katr...
Posted 09.26.2011
From the New York Times: Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 09.25.2011
Wealth disparities between white households and black and Hispanic households are greater than they’ve been in the past 25 years, a new study from t...
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Posted 09.25.2011
By Joanna Lin Story comes courtesy of California Watch. White households have a net worth 20 times that of black households and 18 times that o...
Kristen Lewis | Posted 09.25.2011
Poverty kills. Addressing the underlying social and economic conditions that breed poverty and ill health -- in other words, better policy, not better medicine -- is the solution.
AP | By HOPE YEN | Posted 09.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery ...
Posted 09.21.2011
Cory Maye served 10 years in prison for killing a Mississippi police officer during a mistaken raid on his home. Maye, who had no prior criminal recor...
Martha St Jean | Posted 09.21.2011
One of the reasons we often have bad self-images is because we are obsessed by what other people are thinking. And we think they are thinking negative things -- why? -- because we are busy criticizing others
Posted 11.15.2011
It's never acceptable to judge a man by the color of his skin -- but sometimes it's wise to judge a man by the logo on his t-shirt. Idaho police sa...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.05.2011
In the decade since O.J. Simpson's acquittal, the media has force-fed the public a bloated diet of Simpson-style sensationalism. The Casey Anthony case was only the latest in the sordid train of tabloid made-for-the-public court cases.
Posted 09.04.2011
The long, hot holiday weekend had deadly consequences for several throughout the city of Chicago, but nowhere has violence gone more viral than in the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 08.31.2011
MONTICELLO, Miss. -- After 10 years of incarceration, and seven years after a jury sentenced him to die, 30-year-old Cory Maye will soon be going home...
Rashad Robinson | Posted 08.30.2011
As much as the the exodus of advertisers from Glenn Beck's Fox News show hurt the network, Fox is still betting that advancing stereotypes and supporting race-baiting is good for business.
Kristen Lewis | Posted 08.29.2011
It's no surprise that GDP is no longer the first place economists, policymakers, and individuals go to answer the question "how are people really doing?"
Associated Press | Posted 08.23.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and growing age divide betwe...
David Dagan | Posted 08.20.2011
Broad Street has the usual attractions of a good farmers market. But it also enables a level of mingling that is rare for Central Pennsylvania, and the nation at large.
Rashad Robinson | Posted 08.16.2011
Commentators at Fox News and Fox Business have long stoked the racial anxieties that some segment of their viewers surely harbor. The latest incarnation is Eric Bolling.
Sam Sommers | Posted 08.13.2011
Have you ever had a conversation like the fictional one above, in which the person you're talking to (or maybe you yourself) hesitated before using race to describe someone? Or maybe avoided mentioning race altogether?
Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 06.13.2011
While I get how White people can "feel" that this is their reality -- they are targets of racism -- we must not allow this perspective to drive the future of our conversations on race.
Paul Stoller | Posted 08.10.2011
From the vantage of Europe, American politics seems like the circus: many exciting activities being played out under the big top, activities that have little bearing upon the social and economic realities most Americans confront every day.
Sunil Adam | Posted 08.08.2011
No one would want to be in the shoes of a black man in America. That is a given. Having the highest incarceration and unemployment rates, not to menti...
Patrick Pressl | Posted 08.07.2011
On May 27th, poet/singer/songwriter/activist Gil Scott-Heron passed away at the age of 62. Scott-Heron, perhaps best known for his spoken-word piece "...
Maya Rupert | Posted 08.05.2011
June is here. Cue the gloom and doom stories about the state of the black family, and the finger pointing as we figure out who to blame. Unfortunate...
Robin Quivers | Posted 10.01.2011