Racial Equality

What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

Eric Holder: We Haven't Achieved Racial Equality Yet

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...

Bill Clinton: Struggle For Racial Equality "Nowhere Near Over"

AP | DAN SEWELL | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics


CINCINNATI — The push for racial equality is far from over, in sports and in everyday life, former President Bill Clinton told a crowd at Major ...

Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Kimberle Crenshaw

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

One Gigantic Shining Moment

Claudia Ricci | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics


Claudia Ricci

In the moments immediately after Obama was sworn in, I turned to an African American woman standing behind me and we just hugged, celebrating in that tight embrace the collapse of racial divide.

Dr. King's Other Dream: Ending Poverty

Joel Berg | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


Joel Berg

Had America ever chosen to do so, it could have wiped out domestic poverty and hunger far more rapidly than it could have achieved King's goals of racial equality or world peace.

What An Obama Presidency Would Mean

Alec Baldwin | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


Alec Baldwin

With an Obama presidency, the last, great obstacle to meaningful racial equality in America will vanish, and with it, the yoke, real and perceived, of the limitations of the black experience in our country.