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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
- Jackson Recalls MLK, Targets Urban Youth
  
  newser | Commercial Appeal (Memphis) | Apr 4, 08 11:54 AM CDT
  
  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. But King, he said, would have been distressed that the nation still has "first-class jails, second-class schools." More »
- MLK Son: We Need Cabinet Post for Poverty
  
  newser | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Apr 4, 08 7:28 AM CDT
  
  The son of Martin Luther King says the nation can best commemorate the 40th anniversary of his father's assassination by taking concrete action to fight poverty. In an essay in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Martin Luther King III called on the presidential candidates to commit to creating a Cabinet position, one that will "transcend the ceremonial." The poverty rate is 12%, same as 1968, and it now affects 36 million Americans. More »
- King Would Relish Today's Challenges
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Apr 3, 08 5:10 PM CDT
  
  With tomorrow marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Rev. Jesse Jackson pens an appreciation for the New York Daily News . Jackson worked with the civil-rights giant in 1968 on King's last, tragically unfulfilled project, the Poor People’s Campaign. "He'd keep on dreaming and organizing," Jackson writes of King, were he still alive today. More »
- I See Sex, Not Racism
  
  newser | Slate | Apr 2, 08 10:40 AM CDT
  
  Last week's Vogue cover had "a lot of people, smart and dumb, losing their minds," writes Wesley Morris in Slate. Sure, Annie Leibovitz's shot may pander to the "ugliest racist tropes: black male as ape," with LeBron James as King Kong and Gisele Bundchen as the silky-gowned Fay Wray. (She even has her very own "dashing white adventurer," boyfriend Tom Brady.) But that subtext is a stretch. More »
March 2008
- Older (White) Americans Live Longer, Larger
  
  newser | Reuters | Mar 28, 08 4:55 PM CDT
  
  Americans over age 65 have better financial security, are better educated and expected to live far longer than ever, a study finds—but huge gaps remain between results for whites and those for blacks and Latinos. "The life expectancy gap between whites and blacks has narrowed but is still large," a researcher tells Reuters. "There is a big wealth gap between whites and blacks." More »
- Vogue Cover Stirs Up Race Controversy
  
  newser | MSNBC | Mar 26, 08 4:01 PM CDT
  
  A Vogue cover featuring NBA star LeBron James and supermodel Gisele Bundchen is stirring up a fuss, Dan Fleschner writes on an MSNBC blog. Some say the shot, by the legendary Annie Leibovitz, perpetuates racial stereotypes by portraying James in an aggressive "King Kong-like" pose, with Bundchen as the willowy white woman in distress. More »
- 'White People' Is Model of Right Time, Right Place
  
  newser | ABC News | Mar 24, 08 9:27 PM CDT
  
  The skyrocket success of blog “Stuff White People Like” has shown anew how quickly (and lucratively) a zeitgeist-capturing blog can become a mass-market success story. Only three months young, the site—which skewers the posturing of liberal bourgeois Caucasians—has earned its creator a massive readership and a six-figure book deal with Random House, ABC reports. More »
- Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 22, 08 1:45 PM CDT
  
  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 McCain: Say "something interesting"—speak in paragraphs instead of soundbites—and you, too, might get more than an 8-second snippet of your speech on the news. More »
- Speech Sparks Candor on Race
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 20, 08 3:44 PM CDT
  
  While a verdict on the political wisdom of Barack Obama’s race address might be months in the coming, the speech has sparked a national conversation on the topic, the New York Times reports—with universities, churches and TV commentators chiming in. The Tuesday speech is the top video on YouTube; one pastor called it a “Rorschach inkblot test” for national feelings on race. More »
- Clinton Pulls Ahead in Polls
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 20, 08 1:32 PM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton has scored her first statistically significant national lead over Barack Obama in several weeks—49% to 42%—in a Gallup poll taken early this week, Reuters reports. And her edge in Pennsylvania has doubled since February, two new polls show. They put her lead at 51%-35% and 53%-41%, up from 44%-37% and 49%-43%, respectively, Politico reports. More »
- Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor
  
  newser | ABC News | Mar 20, 08 8:05 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama got some unexpected help yesterday from Mike Huckabee, of all people. The former candidate called Obama’s speech “historic” and said it wasn’t fair to hold candidates accountable for everything the people near them say, ABC News reports. Huckabee, once a pastor himself, said he understood how Wright could get “caught up in the emotion” of an extemporaneous sermon and warned against taking his comments out of context. More »
- Wright Sermons Weren't 'Black Equivalent of a Klan Rally'
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Mar 19, 08 8:38 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s pastor is a good man, says a fellow churchgoer, and though his “going off on white America” kept T. Shawn Taylor—a black woman—from inviting white friends to worship, it didn’t stop her from marrying a white man. Taylor writes in the Chicago Tribune that whites may be “tired of walking on eggshells” around blacks, but don’t knock Wright too much. More »
- Speech on Race Won Hearts and Minds, if Not Votes
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 19, 08 4:22 PM CDT
  
  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 both races feel alienated and resentful. More »
- GOP Sees Pastor as Route to Nov. Win
  
  newser | Politico | Mar 19, 08 1:07 PM CDT
  
  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 is and it’s not the Obama you thought—he’s not the Tiger Woods of politics.” More »
- Obama Speech Doesn't Sway Pundits
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Mar 18, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s milestone speech on race today covered a lot of ground, and first reactions vary from laudatory on the left to unsatisfied on the right: Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo says the candidate went “big big big” by making his story a “realization of American history.” His defense of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was "a break with political precedent, in that he's asking voters to look beyond the cartoon of controversy to see a more complex picture." More »
- Obama Calls for Racial Unity
  
  newser | CNN | Mar 18, 08 10:46 AM CDT
  
  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 "denigrate the goodness and the greatness of our nation," but he said he could "no more disown him" than he could his own white grandmother, who sometimes succumbed to racial stereotypes. More »
- Obama Pastor Being 'Lynched,' Faithful Say
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 18, 08 9:35 AM CDT
  
  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 the media as a “modern-day lynching.” “We are all being vilified,” the new pastor said. “This is an attack on the African American church tradition.” More »
- Obama Readies Major Speech on Race
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Mar 18, 08 6:56 AM CDT
  
  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 Chicago Tribune that the Illinois senator's speech will be "very candid." More »
- Obama: Can He Make White Men Jump?
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 17, 08 8:16 PM CDT
  
  White men have become key swing voters in the Democratic race, the Washington Post reports, and Barack Obama has failed to woo them. His success with the subset in Wisconsin and Virginia was a major breakthrough, pundits say, but he couldn't make white men jump in Texas and Ohio—turning the crucial states to Hillary Clinton and reviving her campaign. More »
- Firebrand Pastor Worried Obama Campaign Early
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Mar 17, 08 10:45 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s campaign uninvited his controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright from speaking at his candidacy announcement last year, reports the Los Angeles Times . The campaign didn’t want to "make him the target and a distraction on a day when Senator Obama was going to announce his candidacy," said David Axelrod, the candidate's chief strategist. Obama waited until last week before formally distancing himself from the head of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. 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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