Pat Buchanan has a post up today on WorldnetDaily, about the "Oath Keepers," the latest strain of extremist nimrods who have lost their minds over the...
Greg Saunders | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
In the last two years, Republicans have been so angry they've had to invent new ways to be racist. Racism no longer comes in degrees of offensiveness, but in flavors of hate speech.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Now that the Beer Summit has resolved any lingering issues over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, we can get back to our perfectly harmonious post-racial society. I, for one, am relieved.
Anna Deavere Smith | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
There are many practical ways that we can do race work, not just race talk in our daily lives. But should we go back to work the same way as before?
Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
"Us v. them" arguments do not engage our rational reflective capacities, but instead inflame us with an exhortation to battle.
Rinku Sen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The essential challenge facing the NAACP is being a racial justice leader in a multiracial nation.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
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.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
You will not catch me dissing Schoolhouse Rock. Like all good Gen Xers, I grew up with the infectious tones of the Saturday morning series permeating...
Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Although some may argue that an apology for slavery would open the door to racial reparations, legal precedent demonstrates that an apology for slavery would not trigger legal liability.
Christina Patterson | Posted 07.20.2009 | Entertainment
This "angry, illiterate, uneducated, ex-hustler, rebellious Rastafarian" (which is how Zephaniah describes himself in Too Black, Too Strong) is not like "most blokes who write poems."
Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
This book is a warning and a wake-up call for Americans who cherish the civil rights vision of an integrated America, a common humanity, and equality before God and law.
Christina Patterson | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
One of the more cheering sights of the past week has been young women in hijab getting excited about politics.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
In the economy we've inherited from the last three decades of deregulation and declining union density, people of color are increasingly relegated to low-wage, precarious work that pays too little to support a family.
WSJ | Erica Alini | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business
Kathryn Graddy and George Hall, both at Brandeis' International Business School, studied fish-purchasing patterns over 22 weeks and found that white c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
One of the more provocative critiques to come from conservatives concerning the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has been the charg...
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
Education inequities in funding, facilities and outcomes are pervasive 55 years after the Court instructed us to fix the problem.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Will fanatical conservatives, who had such a serious problem with America electing a black president, see an opportunity for a consolation prize, of sorts, by taking down Michael Steele as RNC chairman?
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.25.2009 | Politics
Even if we've made strides in accomplishing a decent level of social comfort and affability, we have some ways to go before truly claiming a complete, unconditional truce on the subject of race.
Jason Whitlock | Posted 03.08.2009 | Entertainment
America gives its marketable, talented and wealthy weed-smokers the Santonio Holmes treatment. We forgive and quickly forget.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 03.07.2009 | Entertainment
Cyrus being a model for millions of kids ought to mean she'd be taught more compassion and sensitivity. A mass exodus of racially conscious fans from her audience will help drive the lesson home.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
Maybe laws that require federal oversight in re-districting historically corrupt areas seem draconian to Blackwell; he prefers laws that do the job of knocking voters off the rolls for him.
Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
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.
Lola Adesioye | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
After Obama's election, many in the media asked if black people can still claim that American society is a racist society if a black man can reach the highest office in the land, and even the world.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
What a week! With Congress back in session, with the excitement of newly-elected members being sworn in (or barred at the door, as the case may be), ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
"I am now the junior senator from the state of Illinois. . . . Friends, we're going to have to have some powerful prayer. . . . They can't deny what t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media