Not only did being black or Hispanic hurt your chances of getting a decent loan, but simply living in areas with high concentrations of blacks and Hispanics did, too.
Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver
Wolf Interstate Leasing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has put up a billboard insinuating that President Obama is somehow tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hoo...
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
A new study finds that hate crimes actually declined slightly in 2008, despite an economic recession, increasing demographic diversification, and an apparent rise in the number of active hate groups.
David A. Love | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
Mike Stark | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Loving v. Virginia was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional. It is simply not credible for any lawyer to claim ignorance about it.
Deborah Plummer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
As a nation characterized by a high percentage of Americans who identify themselves as religious, one might assume that we would witness less signs of spiritual immaturity than we are experiencing lately.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
It takes great courage to face adversity, imagine a better outcome, and then get off your butt and do something about it.
Washington Post | Keith B. Richburg | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
As the country gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president, whose first official visit here starts Sunday, the Chinese are confron...
AP | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA — A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children p...
David Finkle | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
Of the 35 productions running or opening shortly -- including Hamlet and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie -- at least 10 offerings have a rainbow-coalition hue.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."
John Feffer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The Russians and Japanese, as well as Europeans, are not having enough children to replace themselves. Only by lowering the barriers to citizenship can shrinking countries revive their economies
1010wins.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
A man who says he endured slashed tires and death threats just before he became rural South Harrison Township's first black mayor is stepping down....
Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Anti-immigration rallies held by neo-Nazi groups in Arizona and Minnesota this weekend drew large counter-protests sometimes outnumbered the original ...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.06.2009 | Chicago
Two white Northwestern University students are in hot water after photos of them wearing blackface for Halloween surfaced this week on Facebook and sp...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Gay marriage is a civil rights issue; it will take a Supreme Court decision or an amendment to the US Constitution to make this right. That's almost inconceivably hard work, but ending slavery was no picnic either.
The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and what...
AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1...
Henry Blodget | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media
Never mind that Keflezighi is an American citizen. Never mind that he's lived in the United States for 22 years. Never mind that he has raced for the United States in the Olympics.
Barrett Brown | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
There's a bit of good news for those various conservative commentators who've been defending Robert Stacy McCain -- you fellows have some powerful new allies!
The Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
A two-year-old video widely seen as racist is sparking debate in Africa again after an academic called for the students involved to be allowed to resu...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
This is the Republican Party, where chicken-fried racism is so commonplace that an image like the above one, which offends the sensibilities of any halfway decent human being, can remain up and running, no questions asked.
AP | MELANIE DABOVICH | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
TAOS, N.M. — Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. The tough-talking f...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
I first heard about The Help soon after it was published in February. But it's 444 pages. I put it off. Very quickly, it became the #3 fiction bestseller.
Barrett Brown | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
Conservative pundit Robert Stacy McCain responded to my cartoon with a big blog post in which he likens me to the commissar of "a Maoist re-education camp."
Jarrett Murphy | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York