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 Cops Acquitted
 in NYC Groom
 Shooting 

Judge clears detectives who killed Sean Bell
in 50-bullet barrage

Apr 25, 08 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - A judge today acquitted three detectives who killed an unarmed New York City man in a hail of 50 bullets hours before his wedding in November 2006, the New York Times reports. The judge cited problems with witnesses' testimony in the killing of Sean Bell and a lack of... More »

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race relations • trial • police brutality • verdict • Sean Bell

Smiley Quits Radio Show After Obama Remarks

'He can't take the
hate,' host says

Apr 12, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tavis Smiley is quitting as political analyst for a national radio show after comments he made about Barack Obama, the Washington Post reports. Smiley says he’s leaving the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” for personal reasons, but Joyner says otherwise. “The real reason is that he can’t... More »

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talk radio • race relations • Obama 2008 • Tavis Smiley • African-American voters

 Not an Icon, a Man 

Would civil rights legend be controversial in today's political climate?

Apr 4, 08 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Washington Post looks past the legend at the multidimensional figure scholars and King's associates consider his true legacy. ”His challenge was much bigger than being nice," says historian Taylor Branch. "It was even bigger than race.... More »

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race • race relations • poverty • civil rights • Vietnam War • Martin Luther King Jr. • 1960s • Jeremiah Wright • civil rights movement • Taylor Branch

 Jackson Recalls MLK,
 Targets Urban Youth 

New initiative launched at site of King's final speech

Apr 4, 08 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson was outside the Lorraine Motel when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, 40 years ago today, and the sound of the gunshot still echoes in his memory. Jackson talks with the Chicago Sun-Times about that day, and how race relations have "detoxified"  in the ensuing years.... More »

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Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • race relations • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • civil rights movement

 Wright 'Would Not Have 
 Been My Pastor': Clinton 

She'd have left church over racial remarks by Obama's ex-preacher

Mar 25, 08 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a week’s silence, Hillary Clinton spoke today on the Jeremiah Wright flap, saying the ex-minister at Barack Obama's church “would not have been my pastor,” the Washington Post reports. She said “getting up and moving” would have been the right choice for Obama. “You... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Don Imus • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Pennsylvania primary • Election 2008

Obama Speech
Injects Race
Into Easter
Sermons
 

Many ministers preach anew about ending racial acrimony

Mar 23, 08 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama altered the agenda for many Easter sermons with his risky speech last week on racial acrimony, the New York Times reports. Ministers of a variety of faiths say they will use Obama’s words—framed to explain the incendiary statements of his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Easter • Election 2008 • sermon

OPINION

Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama

Noonan: They could try addressing us as adults

Mar 22, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Add conservative columnist—and speechwriter of note—Peggy Noonan to the list of pundits impressed by Barack Obama’s address on race. “It was a speech to think to, not clap to,” Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal . And it holds a lesson for Clinton and... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • Michelle Obama • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Peggy Noonan • William Faulkner • African-Americans • white people

OPINION

Speech on Race Won Hearts and Minds, if Not Votes

Columnists impressed that Obama took the high and long road

Mar 19, 08 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The day after Barack Obama tackled the race issue head-on, journalists are weighing its lasting effects:
  •  Eugene Robinson credits Obama with reframing the dialogue on race, moving it beyond "the sour stasis of grievance and countergrievance.” Its most significant aspect: laying out the reasons some in
... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Abraham Lincoln • Jeremiah Wright • grievances

 GOP Sees Pastor as 
 Route to Nov. Win 

'It’s not the Obama you thought,' strategist says of tie to vocal Wright

Mar 19, 08 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - After scrounging for ways to combat Barack Obama's appeal, Republican strategists now believe Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the perfect play to drag the Democrat through the mud in the general election. Said one of the inflammatory Wright clips making the rounds, “You start getting some sense of who he... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • GOP • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Swift Boating • campaign tactics

 Obama Calls for Racial Unity 

Mar 18, 08 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama tackled the issue of race in a candid and risky speech this morning, recounting America’s racial history and acknowledging both black anger and white resentment “we’ve never really worked through.” He denounced the divisive statements of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying they... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • Jeremiah Wright

Obama Pastor Being 'Lynched,'
Faithful Say

Clerics defend 'righteous rage' of inflammatory preacher

Mar 18, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Black pastors and parishioners—including the 3,000 who packed Trinity Church in Chicago Sunday—are leaping to the defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who's drawn a firestorm of criticism for his incendiary rhetoric on racism, the Washington Post reports. A pamphlet circulating the pews decried Wright’s treatment in... More »

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Barack Obama • race • religion • race relations • black culture • Jeremiah Wright

Obama Readies Major Speech
on Race

Will respond today
to furor over Wright's inflammatory remarks

Mar 18, 08 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama will deliver a major speech on race and politics in America in Philadelphia this morning. The candidate will address the racial issues that have dominated the campaign in recent days, fueled by the firestorm over the divisive remarks of Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor. An aide told the... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Democratic presidential candidates • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008

OPINION

Clinton Ignores Code She Sets for Obama

Hopeful refused to blast racist, but wants rival to slam Farrakhan

Mar 1, 08 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Pot, meet kettle: Hillary Clinton recently insisted that Barack Obama “reject and denounce” Louis Farrakhan’s endorsement, but did not apply the same standards to herself, writes Colbert King in the Washington Post. When a Latina in Texas said Hispanics won't vote for Obama because “he... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • race relations • Clinton 2008 • Obama 2008 • Latinos • Louis Farrakhan • anti-Semitism

'Urine Stew' Vid Sparks Furor
in S. Africa

Anti-integration students force-fed
black workers vile soup

Feb 28, 08 1:19 PM CST
(Newser) - South Africans have reacted with outrage and violence to a homemade video showing white college students forcing black employees to eat dirty meat and soup mixed with urine. The four Afrikaners, who don't disguise their faces, made the video to protest racial integration at the formerly all-white University of the... More »

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South Africa • race relations • apartheid • University of the Free State • Afrikaners • human rights violations

OPINION

Attack Teflon Barack, and You'll Be Sorry

Foes offend, apologize; Obama polishes his halo by forgiving

Feb 28, 08 12:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has accepted a lot of apologies this election cycle, and each has made the Democrat stronger, notes Politico writer Ben Smith. From Joe Biden’s “articulate and … clean” gaffe to Bill Cunningham’s attempts to accent his middle name, opponents are always stepping over a line... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Joe Biden • race relations • CNN • Obama 2008 • gaffe • Wolf Blitzer • Bill Cunningham • Hussein • Teflon

In French Politics,
Minorities Need Not Apply

Despite large African population, no black politicians hold high office

Feb 27, 08 7:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Eying Barack Obama's run for the US presidency, some in France are wondering why their own politics are so lily-white. Despite a large population of African immigrants and their descendants, no black or Arab mayors are in office, Bloomberg reports. "In business, sports, music, entertainment, you find diversity in... More »

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immigration • Barack Obama • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • race relations

What's White and White and Read All Over?

Blog strikes a chord with some, hits
a nerve with others

Feb 26, 08 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - When a twentysomething writer launched a satirical blog called "Stuff White People Like" 6 weeks ago, he didn't expect an overwhelming response, and he certainly didn't expect to average 300,000 hits a day. The blog was intended to mock the way the media stereotypes ethnicities, but not all... More »

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race • race relations • blogger • white people

Rights Activist Carr Dies at 97

Friend of Rosa Parks and organizer of 1955 Ala. Bus Boycott

Feb 23, 08 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Johnnie Rebecca Carr, an early leader in the civil rights movement and compatriot of Rosa Parks, has died of a stroke at age 97, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Carr helped organize the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1955 after Parks made her famous stand on a city bus. The group's yearlong... More »

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race relations • civil rights • Martin Luther King Jr. • boycott • Rosa Parks • Johnnie Carr • Montgomery, Alabama • civil rights movement

Jesse to Hill, Barack: Make Nice

Get ready to come together in  November—or else, he warns

Feb 21, 08 8:36 AM CST
(Newser) - With an eye on November, Jesse Jackson warned Democrats yesterday to patch up their battle wounds from the ongoing Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama feud or they "could hurt themselves substantially, perhaps irreparably," reports Politico. First on his agenda is making sure that black-Latino tensions are not "exacerbated,"... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Jesse Jackson • Democratic National Convention • race relations • Clinton 2008 • Obama 2008 • Democratic Party • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008

Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes

Exhibit at the Whitney has 'nightmarish quality'

Feb 3, 08 7:33 PM CST
(Newser) - American artist Kara Walker stirs up “a toxic stew of race, sex, power and history” with her work—now enjoying a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York—exploding antebellum stereotypes about black bodies, Rosalind Cumming-Yeates writes in Ebony. The youngest artist ever to receive a Macarthur “... More »

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art • race relations • MacArthur genius • slavery • Kara Walker • Whitney Museum

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