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Race in America

Though Washington's report to the UN on race relations last spring was a fairly sunny one, the Human Rights Network's findings state that the US "has not taken seriously the duty...to affirmatively address racial discrimination"

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May 2008
- Poll Highlights Obama's Race Dilemma
  
  newser | Newsweek | May 24, 08 9:24 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama will need to defeat not only John McCain but prejudice within his own party if he is to win the presidency, a Newsweek poll finds. Pollsters divided respondents into two categories, based on answers to questions on race-related topics. Among white Democrats who scored low on the poll's "Racial Resentment Index," Obama beat McCain by 78% to 17%, but those with a high level of racial resentment preferred him to McCain by just 51% to 33%. More »
- Why Brown Is Still Hung Up on Black
  
  newser | Esquire | May 21, 08 4:54 PM CDT
  
  The US Latino community is made up of 20 nationalities and 44 million people, but it is largely in agreement on one thing—suspicion of, and often condescension toward, blacks, Ernesto Quiñonez writes in Esquire . Quiñonez remembers growing up in East Harlem, recalling “pecking orders and historic beefs and a belief that light skin was somehow preferable to dark.” More »
- Groom-Slaying Cops Face Disciplinary Hearings
  
  newser | Reuters | May 21, 08 10:27 AM CDT
  
  The New York cops who were acquitted last month after firing more than 50 bullets at an unarmed man on his wedding day will face police department disciplinary action, Reuters reports. Seven officers are on the hot seat, including the three who were cleared of criminal charges last month, and will now face internal charges mirroring those, an NYPD spokesman said yesterday. Also being called to task are one other shooter, two crime scene detectives, and their commanding officer. More »
- 5 Things to Watch for in Kentucky Tonight...
  
  newser | Politico | May 20, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  If Hillary Clinton pulls off another landslide in today's Kentucky primary, she can make a stronger case to superdelegates that she's more "electable" than Barack Obama. With this in mind, here are five things to watch, via Politico : Montgomery County: The small district accurately predicted the statewide margin in the past two incumbent-less primaries. Clinton leads by 28 points in polls. More »
- Clinton: Great White Hope?
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | May 19, 08 4:52 PM CDT
  
  Working-class whites, as "a social category," fear a loss of definition and power, and that might be lead them to support Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, Gregory Rodriguez writes in the Los Angeles Times . This isn't white supremacy; "in fact it might be its opposite, an acknowledgment that white privilege has its limits," as non-college-educated whites feel their position slipping away. More »
- NAACP Names Youngest President Ever
  
  newser | Baltimore Sun | May 17, 08 5:52 PM CDT
  
  The NAACP selected its youngest president ever today, picking 35-year-old Benjamin Jealous after a contentious 8-hour meeting. Jealous promised to bring financial stability to the organization by tapping his ties with top foundations nationwide. He said he will also "pull people into this movement" by focusing more on technology, the Baltimore Sun reports. More »
- Morehouse to Have First White Valedictorian
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 14, 08 6:00 PM CDT
  
  On Sunday, the historically black Morehouse College will graduate its first white valedictorian, the AP reports. Joshua Packwood is graduating with a perfect 4.0 GPA and says the recruiter who talked to him about Morehouse didn't initially realize he was white. "I've been forced to see the world in a different perspective, that I don't think I could've gotten anywhere else," Packwood says. More »
- When GOP Says 'American,' It Really Means 'White'
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 14, 08 10:28 AM CDT
  
  John McCain’s first post-primary ad declares him “the American president Americans have been waiting for," and the repetition tells all, Harold Meyerson writes in the Washington Post . Forget "strong," or "experienced," he notes. For the GOP, " ‘American’ is a term to be used as a wedge issue, a way to distinguish their more racially and religiously homogeneous party from the historically more polyglot Democrats.” More »
- Obama Volunteers See Racial Vitriol First-Hand
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 13, 08 7:05 PM CDT
  
  Volunteers in Barack Obama's campaign have had to steel themselves against racism on the trail, even as the White House hopeful has repeatedly played down the anti-black sentiment his candidacy has revealed. Though the campaign maintains its travels “only reinforced Sen. Obama’s view that this country is not as divided as our politics suggest,” the Washington Post finds many anecdotes to the contrary. More »
- Secret Service Bosses Shared Racist Jokes
  
  newser | New York Times | May 10, 08 11:45 AM CDT
  
  Secret Service supervisors exchanged racist remarks in emails made public yesterday in a lawsuit filed by black agents, the New York Times reports. The messages were shared between at least 20 top agents between 2003 and 2005. One anecdote jokes about assassinating Jesse Jackson. And, according to the lawsuit, the head of the Presidential Protective Detail sent a crude joke about interracial sex to a colleague. More »
- Feds Probe Al for $1.5M in Back Taxes
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 9, 08 8:31 PM CDT
  
  Washington is investigating Al Sharpton and his companies for nearly $1.5 million in back taxes and penalties, the AP reports. Sharpton, who has been negotiating the size of his federal debt, brushed off the government's latest move today. “Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop," the civil rights agitator said. "I think that that is why they try to intimidate us." More »
- NYPD Arrests Sharpton, Bell's Fiancée at Protests
  
  newser | New York Post | May 7, 08 6:01 PM CDT
  
  New York City police arrested the Rev. Al Sharpton and the fiancée and mother of Sean Bell today during protests over the April 25 acquittal of three officers who shot Bell to death in a 50-bullet barrage. Hundreds blocked traffic at the Brooklyn Bridge and other city hot spots, the New York Post reports. Dozens were arrested, including two of Bell's friends who survived the 2006 shooting. More »
- Woman Who Defied Interracial Marriage Ban Dies at 68
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 5, 08 4:11 PM CDT
  
  Mildred Loving, whose challenge to Virginia law led to the Supreme Court decision overturning bans on racially mixed marriage, has died at the age of 68. Loving, who was black, and her white husband Richard pleaded guilty to “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth” before their suit led to a landmark civil-rights ruling in 1967. More »
- About-Face on Wright 'No Way to Start a Dialogue'
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | May 5, 08 2:44 PM CDT
  
  Coming together “isn’t all it’s cracked up to be,” Gregory Rodriguez writes in the LA Times , and Barack Obama's attempt to start a national dialogue on race was foiled by an unlikely actor: Barack Obama. Jeremiah Wright "didn't really say anything new last week," Rodriguez argues. "He called Obama’s bluff.” More »
- Hispanics Hit 15% of US Population
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 1, 08 1:45 PM CDT
  
  The US Hispanic population is booming, driven more by a high birth rate among those already in the country than immigration, the Census Bureau says. Since 2000, Latinos have jumped from 12.6% to more than 15% of the total population—swelling their numbers to 45.5 million from 35.7 million. "If you close the borders tomorrow, there is still going to be a large Hispanic increase," a demographer tells the Wall Street Journal. More »
April 2008
- Offended, Black Ministers Decry Wright's Comments
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Apr 30, 08 1:49 PM CDT
  
  Jeremiah Wright's ideas don't "represent mainstream black thought on Sunday morning," black ministers and parishioners tell the Los Angeles Times —and they're worried that his recent comments are offensive and damaging to Barack Obama’s candidacy. “This didn’t have anything to do with the black church—it was basically an attack on the individual message he proclaimed, which hurt some individuals,” says one pastor. More »
- Wright Tests Obama's Anger Management
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 30, 08 10:40 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama has spent his entire career trying not to be an Angry Black Man, but yesterday Jeremiah Wright forced him to tap his rage, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times . Wright, seemingly among the angriest of black men, had created a full-blown crisis for Obama, forcing the Democrat to commit “a painful form of political patricide.” More »
- Pastor Strife Forces Obama to Get Tough
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 30, 08 6:09 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's angry break with his former pastor marks a dramatic change in tone for the Democratic hopeful—and the party's superdelegates are paying close attention, the New York Times reports. Obama's forceful handling of the furor has impressed many but the revival of thorny racial issues ahead of next week's primaries is causing some to fret. More »
- Will Robinson, 1st Black Coach in Division I, Dies at 96
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 28, 08 11:21 PM CDT
  
  Will Robinson, the first black basketball coach at a Division I school and a Detroit Pistons scout who discovered Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman, died Monday. He was 96. Robinson died at a Detroit hospital, Pistons spokesman Matt Dobek said. Robinson had been sick for 15 months and in a nursing home for more than a year, Dobek added. More »
- Obama Says No to More Debates
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Apr 27, 08 5:33 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama today rejected the idea of additional debates against Hillary Clinton, the Chicago Tribune reports. “I’m not ducking. We’ve had 21” debates, the senator said, insisting he prefers face-to-face talks with the kind of blue-collar voters who helped clinch Clinton’s Pennsylvania win. More »

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Gary Orfield, a UCLA professor and a co-author of the report fears that the Bush administration's influence over the Judicial branch is trying to bring about a new age of racial segregation. (shutterstock.com)

A new study of economic mobility has found that blacks born into the middle class in the late 1960s are far more likely than whites to earn less than their parents. (Shutterstock.com)

Their sons' rivalry was on the field this weekend but the NFL Moms led by Zelda Westbrook, mother of Eagles running back Brian Westbrook, cheered on breast cancer survivors at the Many Faces of Breast... (Associated Press)

Jose Sifuentes, center, of Oklahoma City, waves a flag as he joins in with about 500 mostly Hispanic protesters who gathered at the state Capitol to criticize a new state law that's designed to fight... (Associated Press)

Calvin Brown from Dallas, Texas, holds flags and raises his fist in front of the LaSalle Parish Courthouse during a rally after the march in support of the so-called Jena Six in Jena, La., Thursday, Sept.... (Associated Press)

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