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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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  • March 2008

    • Obama Camp Wants Ferraro Fired for Slur

      MSNBC  |  Mar 11, 08 4:57 PM CDT

      Obama Camp Wants Ferraro Fired for Slur

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton is ignoring calls to fire adviser Geraldine Ferraro after she said Barack Obama is succeeding because of his race, MSNBC reports. "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," the former vice presidential nominee said. “He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." More »

    • Are Black Immigrants Black?

      Mother Jones  |  Mar 1, 08 7:31 PM CST

      Are Black Immigrants Black?

      (Newser) - The notion that a black American must be a “descendant of West African slaves brought here to labor for whites against their will” just reinforces the “invisibility that black immigrants face in America,” Debra Dickerson writes in Mother Jones . But she can’t escape it herself, she admits; she has said that Barack Obama isn’t black, endorsing “a politico-cultural reality which I reject.” More »

  • February 2008

    • Attack Teflon Barack, and You'll Be Sorry

      Politico  |  Feb 28, 08 12:33 PM CST

      Attack Teflon Barack, and You'll Be Sorry

      (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 with Obama, and with every apology he appears more gracious, rising above the fray—and foes. More »

    • 'Black Geniuses' Remark is OK

      Washington Post  |  Feb 26, 08 6:30 PM CST

      'Black Geniuses' Remark is OK

      (Newser) - The presidential race is so odd that Geraldo Rivera has pondered "black geniuses" on Fox—which was “absurd in a way that’s new and refreshing," Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post . Rivera was talking about Barack Obama and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick last week on "Fox and Friends" when he said, "It's almost as if they went to a camp where these black geniuses got together," Rivera said. More »

    • What's White and White and Read All Over?

      Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 26, 08 1:10 PM CST

      What's White and White and Read All Over?

      (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 of its readers seem to be in on the joke, the LA Times reports. More »

    • Rights Activist Carr Dies at 97

      Montgomery Advertiser (Alamaba)  |  Feb 23, 08 4:00 PM CST

      Rights Activist Carr Dies at 97

      (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 boycott caught the nation's attention. She later served as the group's president and was active with it until her death. More »

    • Racist Hate Mail Probed at NH Prep School

      New York Times  |  Feb 21, 08 3:27 PM CST

      Racist Hate Mail Probed at NH Prep School

      (Newser) - Police, the FBI, and the US Postal Service are investigating hate mail sent to black students at an elite prep school, the New York Times reports. Sources say students at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire received letters containing their photos from the school's directory with the words "bang bang get out of here" beneath. The letters had apparently been posted from a nearby town. More »

    • Anti-Obama Asians Accused of Racism

      Time  |  Feb 20, 08 8:13 AM CST

      Anti-Obama Asians Accused of Racism

      (Newser) - Barack Obama's low support among Asian-Americans is sparking cries of racism, Time reports. "On a gut level my reaction is that at least some Asian-Americans are uncomfortable voting for a black candidate," one analyst said. But some Asians resent the charge: A recent CNN show on the topic was blasted by an Asian PAC, which backs Clinton, and Asian bloggers, who seem to prefer Obama. More »

    • Foes 'Question Our Blackness,' Clintonites Say

      Washington Post  |  Feb 19, 08 2:40 PM CST

      Foes 'Question Our Blackness,' Clintonites Say

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s African-American supporters may once have thought they were making the safe choice, but now that the black community is rallying behind Barack Obama, her boosters' instincts and loyalty are being questioned, the Washington Post reports. The heat is so high that 25 senior boosters had a conference Friday to rally against what one called an effort to “pester, intimidate, question our blackness.” More »

    • Bush: 'No Place in America' For Lynching Jokes

      Associated Press  |  Feb 12, 08 6:16 PM CST

      Bush: 'No Place in America' For Lynching Jokes

      (Newser) - President Bush said today that Americans should agree that noose displays and lynching jokes are “deeply offensive.” “They are wrong and they have no place in America today,” Bush said at a Black History Month event at the White House. The Justice Department is investigating noose incidents nationwide at schools, work places, and neighborhoods, the AP reports. More »

    • Comic Artists Plan Black and White Protest

      Washington Post  |  Feb 6, 08 3:01 PM CST

      Comic Artists Plan Black and White Protest

      (Newser) - Sick of seeing colleagues turned down by newspapers that already have their fill of cartoons depicting minorities, artists of color are planning a draw-in Sunday, the Washington Post reports. The minds behind strips like "Candorville," "Herb and Jamaal," and "Cafe con Leche" will wield their pens to portray a white reader writing off comic strips like theirs as "tokenism." More »

    • Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes

      Ebony  |  Feb 3, 08 7:33 PM CST

      Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes

      (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 “genius” grant (at 27), Walker uses the period technique of silhouettes to trace slavery’s horrors. More »

  • January 2008

    • A New Racial Slur: 'Canadians'

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jan 30, 08 12:13 PM CST

      A New Racial Slur: 'Canadians'

      (Newser) - An otherwise insignificant manslaughter trial in Texas has bloggers and citizens of the US' northern neighbor flabbergasted after a prosecutor seemed to refer to blacks on the jury by the euphemism "Canadians." It's apparently not an isolated usage, the Guardian reports: Internet users have dug up many examples of American racists using "Canadians" to make hateful remarks sound anodyne. More »

    • Mitt Lets the Dogs Out

      Slate  |  Jan 22, 08 1:31 PM CST

      Mitt Lets the Dogs Out

      (Newser) - Mitt Romney’s attempts to make small talk with black voters on Martin Luther King Day were so tone deaf, Slate ’s Christopher Beam blogs, that they were less offensive than stunningly clueless. Posing for a photo op with young African Americans, Mitt riffed, “Who let the dogs out? Who, who”; meeting a baby wearing a necklace, the candidate tried, “What’s happening? You got some bling bling here!” More »

    • Tiger Calls 'Lynch' Flap Overblown

      Orange County Register (Calif.)  |  Jan 22, 08 11:50 AM CST

      Tiger Calls 'Lynch' Flap Overblown

      (Newser) - Enough already, says Tiger Woods. The recent flap over a sports announcer's "lynch" joke has been overblown by the media and is in the past as far as he's concerned, reports the Orange County Register . "There was no ill intent," he said during the unveiling of a learning center in his name in Anaheim. "She regrets saying it. In my eyes, it's all said and done." More »

    • What Makes a Black Sellout ?

      Salon  |  Jan 21, 08 8:59 PM CST

      What Makes a Black Sellout ?

      (Newser) - A black intellectual's new book, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal , goes easy on Clarence Thomas for dissing the very affirmative action that helped him succeed, Salon 's James Hannaham writes. Does that make Sellout author Randall Kennedy a sellout? Maybe Kennedy is able to do what free-thinking blacks must: "separate what we think from what our comrades of color expect us to believe,” Hannaham writes. More »

    • Michelle Takes Barack's Case to Black Voters

      Newsweek  |  Jan 21, 08 5:45 PM CST

      Michelle Takes Barack's Case to Black Voters

      (Newser) - Transcending race means that Barack Obama often keeps black voters at arm’s length, but his wife is taking the contest to African Americans, Newsweek reports. Born on Chicago’s South Side, Michelle Obama has more in common with black Americans than her Indonesia- and Hawaii-raised husband—and has no qualms about speaking candidly. More »

    • A Man, Not a Soundbite

      Associated Press  |  Jan 21, 08 4:54 PM CST

      A Man, Not a Soundbite

      (Newser) - In the decades since his death, Martin Luther King Jr. has been transformed from a flesh-and-blood figure into a one-dimensional icon. Historians fear memory has frozen King on the Washington Mall in 1963, reducing him to a soundbite and a “symbol that people use and manipulate for their own purposes,” says one professor. The Associated Press considers King's—there's that word again—legacy. More »

    • King's Church Rings With Praise

      Associated Press  |  Jan 21, 08 3:04 PM CST

      King's Church Rings With Praise

      (Newser) - The Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached his message of racial equality rang with praise today for the slain civil rights leader, reports the AP. Hundreds of notables, including Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, crammed into Ebenezer Baptist Church. "King's legacy gives light to our hopes, permission to our aspirations, and relevance to our dreams," said Franklin. More »

    • Obama Visits MLK's Church

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 20, 08 7:50 PM CST

      Obama Visits MLK's Church

      (Newser) - On the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, Barack Obama visited the civil rights leader’s old church and repeated his mantra of unity, the Chicago Tribune reports. “If enough Americans were awakened to the injustice,” Obama said, “if they joined together, then perhaps that wall would come tumbling down." Atlanta's mayor attended the event, which coincided with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution 's endorsement of Obama. 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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