Racial Issues

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  • Oakland mourns

    A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
  • Jindal talks up sheriff with complicated racial history

    In his speech Tuesday night, the Louisiana governor praised a local lawman with a history of controversy over his attitude toward African-Americans.
  • Murdoch: "We made a mistake" running chimp cartoon

    The owner of the New York Post offers his personal apology for a controversial cartoon printed in his paper.
  • NY Post apologizes for chimp cartoon

    The paper isn't exactly totally contrite, but considering the Post's usual stance, any sort of apology is notable.
  • NY Post cartoonist compares stimulus author to chimp

    Given the history of racist comparisons involving monkeys, some see a nasty undertone in the political cartoon.
  • The Michelle Obama hair challenge

    Nappy or relaxed, African-American hair has always been a loaded subject. So what does it mean to have a black do in the White House?
  • The unbearable smallness of the RNC chair battle

    The contest to run the Republican National Committee has turned into a fight over which of the candidates are racist.
  • RNC chair update: Who's least offputting to minorities?

    The selection of the GOP's next chairman now centers around the party's struggles to appeal to minority voters.
  • Obama and the spirit of Hawaii

    On this day when we vow to begin again, a prayer for a sea change in America.
  • A rough night for gay Obama supporters

    I was elated over Obama's historic win. Then I got the news that Proposition 8 was passing -- banning my right to marry a woman.
  • Athletes didn't "pave way" for Obama

    Heroes like Jackie Robinson played a small role, but exaggerating it diminishes what anonymous millions have done.
  • Racists for Obama

    Plenty of white bigots will vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday. There are some things they fear more than black people.
  • Overcoming in Ohio

    In bellwether Perry County, the Ku Klux Klan once thrived. Now, Republican truckers and coal miners are backing Barack Obama.
  • "There's an awful tough tightrope for Obama to walk"

    An interview with sociologist Michael Eric Dyson on Barack Obama, Martin Luther King and race relations in America.
  • The GOP goes back to its ugly roots

    McCain is resurrecting the GOP's oldest tactic: Smearing Obama as a scary black terrorist sympathizer. But he may meet the same fate as Barry Goldwater.
  • What small-town America is saying about Obama

    In diners and mobile homes from New Mexico to North Carolina, I listened to working-class people try to make sense of a black president named Barack.
  • Arab-American beauty

    En route from "Six Feet Under" to "True Blood," TV genius Alan Ball snuck in "Towelhead," an earnest drama about race and sexual awakening in '90s suburbia.
  • The dark history of burned flesh

    Drop those spareribs, imperialist pig-eaters! A new book argues that the great American barbecue smolders on the coals of genocidal racism.
  • What's up with black names, anyway?

    From Tayshaun to Rau'shee, Olympic athletes have been a reminder of distinctive African-American names. Before you poke fun, here's a history lesson.
  • In defense of race-based rooting

    At the Olympics, you sometimes find yourself rooting for athletes because of their race. And that's OK.
  • Debunking anti-Obama e-mails

    Error-filled chain e-mails designed to scare voters away from Barack Obama are circulating widely on the Internet. Salon deconstructs a pair, one smearing the candidate, the other his wife.
  • Black and white in color

    An arch, acute and haunting documentary about the segregated Mardi Gras traditions of Mobile, Ala., "The Order of Myths" might be the nonfiction film of the year.
  • CNN's "Black in America"

    What did you miss in the first installment of the cable program's high-profile series on race?
  • Jesse Helms is not dead

    His politics and his methods live on -- among liberals as well as conservatives.
  • Who's afraid of Michelle Obama?

    The flap about the potential first lady's "image problem" proves how uncomfortable the country feels about a shift in racial dynamics. But as far as I'm concerned, I've found a kindred spirit.
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