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Mass. Cop Won't Fault Obama Over 'Acted Stupidly' Jab

But prez should get the facts on Gates bust first

Jul 23, 09 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Asked if he blamed President Obama for saying he’d “acted stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley took the high road, the Boston Globe reports. He told a radio show today it was “regrettable” that anyone would speak without knowing the “... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • Harvard • racial profiling • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

 Angry Gates to Make 
 Film on Racial Profiling 

Harvard prof. inspired by recent brush with the law

Jul 21, 09 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - After his up-close and personal look at the criminal justice system, Henry Louis Gates Jr. intends to tackle the issue of racial profiling in a documentary for PBS, the Harvard scholar tells the Washington Post. "It had never crossed my mind but it has now," says Gates, who... More »

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race • African Americans • racism • racial profiling • police action • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

(Newser) - Increased turnout by minorities in last year's election helped Barack Obama take several swing states and advance in GOP strongholds, new data from the Census Bureau shows. Turnout was 64%, the same as the last presidential election—but a growing population means that 5 million more people voted in 2008... More »

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Barack Obama • race • voting • demographics • minorities • Election 2008 • presidential election • Obama campaign

Black Kids Booted From Swim Club Over 'Complexion'

Suburban pool rejects summer campers,
cites 'complexion'

Jul 9, 09 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Philadelphia summer camp says it may take legal action after a suburban swim club rejected its campers, the Inquirer reports. On their first visit to the pool, the children said they’d overheard other poolgoers complaining about black people frequenting the swim club; soon after, management refunded the $1,... More »

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race • children • Pennsylvania • Philadelphia • racism • swimming pool • racial discrimination • summer camp

(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly can’t figure out why African Americans would care about Michael Jackson’s death. “Michael Jackson has white children, and he chose to have white children,” he said on his show last night. “And the face deal, I don’t even want to... More »

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race • African Americans • Bill O'Reilly • race relations • Michael Jackson • white people

opinion

 Even as a Kid, Michael 
 Changed the Game 

Black community adopted him as pioneer

Jun 26, 09 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson took Hollywood with Ben in 1972, at a time when few black Americans had shaped the industry. “Little Michael landed upon the mindset of film-hungry black America when its citizenry was starved for identity on the big screen,” writes Wil Haygood in the Washington Post. The... More »

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music • race • culture • black culture • Michael Jackson • women's issues

Nixon Asked for More 'Attractive Women' in GOP

New tapes: He thought abortions were OK in interracial pregnancies

Jun 23, 09 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Nixon felt the Republican Party needed more “attractive women,” newly released Oval Office tapes reveal. In a phone conversation with George HW Bush (then Republican National Committee chairman) Nixon describes seeing two “very attractive women” in the South Carolina legislature, the Los Angeles Times reports. “... More »

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abortion • race • Republican • women • GOP • rape • Richard Nixon • George HW Bush • Sarah Palin

ANALYSIS

Similar Lives Led Sotomayor, Thomas Down Different Paths

On and off the bench, they often work at cross-purposes

Jun 7, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The lives of Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas have parallels—humble beginnings, fatherless childhoods, Yale Law, affirmative action—but their conclusions are contrary. “For the first time, the Supreme Court would include two minority judges, but ones who stand at opposite poles of thinking about race, identity, and opportunity,... More »

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race • affirmative action • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • ethnic diversity • Sonia Sotomayor

(Newser) - Don't look now, but Al Sharpton is emerging as one of President Obama's go-to guys on race. Given that Obama is the candidate who supposedly transcended racial politics and Sharpton is the character who "perfected" them, it just may be the "oddest political pairing of the year,"... More »

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race • African Americans • Al Sharpton • President Obama

OPINION

Ahead of Senate Hearings, Racism Charges Fly


Jun 2, 09 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor’s views on race have become a hot button topic. But it’s just Republican “race mongering,” writes Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe. Remember, the GOP “has been the party of racial code words,” from Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” to Reagan’... More »

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race • race relations • affirmative action • US Supreme Court • Jonah Goldberg • Sonia Sotomayor • Derrick Jackson

Dems Stoked Over GOP's Judiciary Pick

Accusations of racial insensitivity continue
to dog Sessions

May 6, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are hoping Arlen Specter’s replacement on the Senate Judiciary Committee, a white Southerner with a history of racial provocation, will help paint the Republican image into a corner, Politico reports. As the GOP’s chief questioner of President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, Jeff Sessions will “... More »

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race • Senate Judiciary Committee • Jeff Sessions • US Supreme Court • justices

APPRECIATION

 Kemp 
 Changed 
 GOP Forever 


May 3, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - For Adam Clymer, writing in the New York Times, Jack Kemp won’t be remembered as just a Bills star and Buffalo congressman. He’ll be remembered as the player who boycotted a New Orleans game to protest segregation, and the politician who “moved the Republican Party to a... More »

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race • Buffalo Bills • GOP • congressman • obituary • Republican Party • minorities • Jack Kemp

'No Child' Law Fails to
Narrow Racial Gap

Minority students lag behind whites despite overall improvements since 2004

Apr 29, 09 1:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The achievement gap between white and minority students has not been changed by federal No Child Left Behind initiative, the New York Times reports. Scores from a federal test considered to be the most accurate yardstick of reading and writing proficiency show that elementary students have improved across the board... More »

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education • race • No Child Left Behind • Obama administration • racial gap • Arne Duncan

(Newser) - More Americans say race relations are looking good since the election of Barack Obama, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. Among 973 adults surveyed last week, two-thirds said race relations were good and the number of blacks in agreement doubled since last summer. Despite resignation over the economy... More »

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Barack Obama • race • African Americans • poll • racism

Time to Stop Fighting the
Civil War in History Class

Obama means 'honest' discourse on race

Apr 20, 09 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ask a Northerner what caused the Civil War and he'll say slavery, while Southerners are likely to say states’ rights, or economic differences. That self-justifying shorthand is reflected in what's taught in schools, too. But with the election of Barack Obama, historians say new ground has been broken in the... More »

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education • race • history • Civil War • slavery • secession • President Obama

 White Firefighters'  
 Bias Claims Head  
 to High Court 

Conn. team complained after promotion test dumped

Apr 10, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hoping to become lieutenants, 77 New Haven firefighters took a promotion test—but when none of the 19 black firefighters qualified, the city jettisoned the results. Their hopes dashed, 17 white firefighters sued the city for racial discrimination, and the case is now set for the Supreme Court. It marks... More »

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John Roberts • race • New Haven • firefighters • Connecticut • racial inequality • US Supreme Court • racial equality • racial discrimination

 Turk Broadcaster 
 Reports on Obama 
 in Blackface 

Apparently he meant it in a good way

Apr 8, 09 12:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Turkish newscaster delivered his report on President Obama’s trip to Turkey in blackface, the Huffington Post reports, in what was apparently supposed to be a strange tribute. Roughly translated, the anchor is saying, “Welcome, Mr Obama. You took our hearts with your hospitality. ... We will do whatever... More »

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Barack Obama • Turkey • race • race relations • blackface • President Obama

Supreme Court Won't Hear Mumia's Appeal

Abu-Jamal says was convicted by biased jury in 1981 cop death

Apr 6, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mumia Abu-Jamal has lost his bid for a new trial in the 1981 killing of a police officer, the AP reports. The Supreme Court said today it won’t take up Abu-Jamal's claims that prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering a Philadelphia policeman. The... More »

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race • police • appeal • conviction • bias • US Supreme Court • jury selection • Mumia Abu-Jamal

 McCain Asks 
 Obama to Pardon 
 Boxing Champ 

Wants to overturn racially motivated conviction

Apr 2, 09 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has introduced a resolution requesting a posthumous presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, the LA Times reports. Johnson suffered what McCain calls a “racially motivated conviction” in 1913 for dating a white woman. Prosecutors said he’d violated the... More »

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John McCain • boxing • race • presidential pardon

Brazil Prez Blames
'Blue-Eyed Whites' for Mess

Brazilian president doesn't know a 'single black banker'

Mar 27, 09 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's black and indigenous people are paying the price for the blunders of "blue-eyed" bankers, Brazil's president declared yesterday. "This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behavior of some people who are white, blue-eyed," Lula da Silva said at a press conference in Brazil with... More »

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race • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • bankers • financial crisis • Howard Stern Grid

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