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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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April 2008
- Fiancée: 'They Killed Sean All Over Again'
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 26, 08 1:37 PM CDT
  
  Sean Bell’s fiancé spoke out today, condemning the court for acquitting the men who shot her husband. “The justice system let me down,” Nicole Paultre Bell said. “April 25, 2008: They killed Sean all over again.” In her first public comments since yesterday’s verdict, Paultre Bell vowed to fight for another decision in the case, while Al Sharpton threatened to “shut the city down.” More »
- After Bell Shooting, NYPD Awaits Its Own Verdict
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 26, 08 11:39 AM CDT
  
  A New York judge yesterday cleared the detectives who fatally shot Sean Bell, but the NYPD is awaiting its own verdict, after the case provoked charges of shoddy undercover police work. The shooting “revealed significant deficiencies in supervision, tactical planning, communications and management accountability,” said the Queens district attorney. The case’s chief prosecutor added, “This was a slipshod operation.” More »
- Sharpton: Bell Verdict 'Abortion of Justice'
  
  newser | CNN | Apr 25, 08 6:12 PM CDT
  
  Rev. Al Sharpton blasted today's acquittal of three NYPD officers who killed an unarmed man in a 50-slug fusillade in 2006, CNN reports. "Justice didn't miscarry," Sharpton said. "This was an abortion of justice. Justice was aborted." Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged citizens to respect the “authority” of the court; meanwhile, the Justice Department is considering civil-rights charges, Reuters reports. More »
- Red Herrings Abound on Campaign Trail
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 25, 08 3:38 PM CDT
  
  Maybe Geraldine Ferraro and BET founder Bob Johnson are right about Barack Obama’s success, Colson Whitehead sarcastically posits in the New York Times. " The Guy Who’s Where He Is Only Because He’s Black" runs down his busy schedule and puzzles over the fact that "the higher up you go in an organization, the less you see of me." More »
- Cops Acquitted in NYC Groom Shooting
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 25, 08 8:47 AM CDT
  
  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 sufficient evidence. Roughly 150 Bell supporters had gathered inside and outside the courtroom, including fiancée Nicole Paultre-Bell, who ran from the courtroom when the verdict was read, and the Rev. Al Sharpton. More »
- Harold and Kumar Transcends Race
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Apr 24, 08 12:50 PM CDT
  
  Race underscores the stoner misadventures of Harold and Kumar—whose second film comes out tomorrow—but it’s not the point. The movies, about two friends who “just happen not to be white,” set a multicultural standard that Hollywood hasn’t figured out, writes Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times . When it comes to cultural issues, “filmgoers are a bit savvier than they are given credit for,” says a co-director. More »
- Race Looms Large After Obama Loss
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 24, 08 8:25 AM CDT
  
  Until recently, Barack Obama seemed to have quashed concerns about the chances of an African-American winning the White House. But as he inches closer to the nomination, more Democrats are beginning to ask whether white and other non-black voters will elect a black man in November. The question has taken on new urgency since Obama's loss in Pennsylvania, writes the New York Times . More »
- Black Players Drop to 8.2 Percent of Major Leaguers
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 16, 08 1:29 AM CDT
  
  Major League Baseball received its best grade for racial diversity in hiring, even as the percentage of black players dropped again last year. MLB received its first A- for race Tuesday from Richard Lapchick, director of the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. Its grade was B+ in last year's study. More »
- BET Founder: 'Ferraro Said It Right' on Obama
  
  newser | Charlotte Observer | Apr 15, 08 3:18 PM CDT
  
  BET founder and Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson repeated Geraldine Ferraro’s claim that Barack Obama wouldn’t be a top White House contender if he weren’t black. "Geraldine Ferraro said it right," the billionaire told the Charlotte Observer yesterday. "The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial." More »
- Lawmaker Who Called Obama 'Boy' Apologizes
  
  newser | The Hill | Apr 14, 08 4:06 PM CDT
  
  A Republican congressman apologized to Barack Obama today for calling him “that boy” at a fundraiser on Saturday. Geoff Davis of Kentucky spoke of sharing “highly classified national security situations" with Obama and said, “I'm going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button.” The audience laughed and applauded, The Hill reports. More »
- Smiley Quits Radio Show After Obama Remarks
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 12, 08 4:05 PM CDT
  
  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 take the hate he’s been getting regarding the Barack issue,” Joyner said. More »
- After 20 Years, Feds Crack Hate Mail Case
  
  newser | Cleveland Plain Dealer | Apr 11, 08 4:14 PM CDT
  
  An Ohio man who authorities believe sent threatening communications to black and mixed-race recipients over the course of 20 years was indicted this week, the Plain Dealer reports. David Tuason, 46, threatened to blow up the US Supreme Court and kill Clarence Thomas in 2003 but eluded capture from the late 1980s until a few months ago, when he switched from postal mail to email. More »
- Immigration Chief Covered Up Racist Pics, Dems Say
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Apr 9, 08 2:20 PM CDT
  
  The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to hide pictures of her giving an award to an employee in a racially insensitive Halloween costume, House Democrats say. Julie Myers was photographed smiling and standing next to an employee in prison garb and wearing blackface, whom she awarded the night's "most original costume" prize, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
- Obama's Grannie Trumped Bias
  
  newser | USA Today | Apr 9, 08 8:00 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama wasn’t the first in his family to defy convention: His grandmother bucked prejudices in Hawaii against women and whites in the 1960s and '70s, USA Today reports. Madelyn Dunham, now 85, fought to become one of the Bank of Hawaii’s first female vice presidents. “Was she ambitious? She had to be,” said a former colleague. “It was a tough world.” More »
- Arizona's Black Leaders Haven't Felt the Mac Love
  
  newser | Politico | Apr 8, 08 2:26 PM CDT
  
  John McCain has "pretty well zero relationship" with African Americans in his home state, says one prominent civil rights leader, and many others say they've never even gotten their senior senator's attention—much less met him. McCain's perceived indifference may be one thing in Arizona, and quite another in the event of a general election in which he faces Barack Obama. More »
- Obama Doesn't Shy From Hard Truths: Sister
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Apr 7, 08 9:58 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's diverse family has remained silent since the flare-up over his former pastor's sermons. But in her first public comments since Obama's speech on race in America, half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng told the Telegraph their "typical white" grandmother, whose opinions on blacks sometimes made the candidate "cringe," was "entirely supportive" of Obama and his descriptions. More »
- Wright Takes Cross Over Racial Divide
  
  newser | New Yorker | Apr 6, 08 8:39 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright built his Chicago church on black liberation theology, which directs Christianity at African Americans, Kelefa Sanneh writes in the New Yorker . The movement’s founder aimed to “emancipate the gospel from its ‘whiteness,’” but also from Frederick Douglass’ belief that antebellum America had profoundly perverted Christianity. More »
- Not an Icon, a Man
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 4, 08 6:41 PM CDT
  
  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. It was whether we take our national purpose seriously, which is the full promise of equal citizenship." More »
- McCain Deems 1983 Vote Against MLK Day a 'Mistake'
  
  newser | Commercial Appeal (Memphis) | Apr 4, 08 3:42 PM CDT
  
  John McCain apologized today for his 1983 Senate vote against a federal Martin Luther King holiday. Standing at the Memphis site where King was assassinated in 1968, McCain called his nay vote “a mistake,” the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports; McCain later voted for a state holiday in Arizona. Democrat Hillary Clinton, also in Memphis today, recalled meeting King as a teenager. More »
- Obama, Wright Echo Early, Late MLK
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Apr 4, 08 2:08 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama can easily be compared to the early Martin Luther King and his hopeful message of change prior to 1965, writes Michael Eric Dyson in the Los Angeles Times . But it's Jeremiah Wright who most resembles King after that—when his message grew "angrier" and increasingly skeptical of white America and its capacity for change. 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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