One million times and counting. That's how often CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien says members of the black community have likely discussed the issue of "...

If we stop looking for the "racist" or "antiracist" intent within people and instead within the shared, patterned, and common ways that people interact, we can move beyond the common and often misleading ways of dividing the world into simplistic dichotomies of good and bad.

The year 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of my Puerto Rican mother and Irish-Italian father's unusual wedding. They met and married in an experimental community called Synanon, where I was born.

-- The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are re...

WASHINGTON -- When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million – at least 1 in 14 – went beyond th...

Walking through Shoprite the other day, a Wal-Mart-wannabe down the road from where my wife and I live in Cape Town, South Africa, I couldn't help but notice something peculiar in one of the aisles.

As one of the youngest reporters at the Democratic National Convention, I realized my racial identity sitting in the press box at INVESCO field as I watched as a man who eventually would lead this nation speak.