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Saggy pants ban: racial profiling, or asthetic improvement?
Chicago could soon ban saggy pants, the kind that are worn intentionally, way, way down--and often worn by young black men. read more
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"Our Blacks are better than their Blacks"
We try to stay away from the sideshow known as U.S. electoral politics. But race keeps injecting itself into the mix, so it's hard to ignore. Take Herman Cain.Please. read more
View ArticleAre black churches hurting black gays?
The power and influence of Black churches in the Black community is well known. And that influence is growing, according to recent studies.read more
View ArticleA very white electorate has a huge impact on the GOP nomination
Tomorrow the second big race of the 2012 election will be underway, and pundits say it could be decisive in picking a GOP nominee. But they're always saying a certain race is decisive. How else will...
View ArticleS*it people say - and its affect on discussions of race
There has been an internet phenomenon in the past three days. A series of videos, including "Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls" read more
View ArticleGOP: Not even a dog whistle anymore
The term "dog-whistle politics" pertains to certain code words, used by politicians to appeal to the nativist and racist voters.read more
View ArticleLinSanity: comedy shows take on Jeremy Lin and racial double-standards
By now you've heard of the phenomenon of Jeremy Lin, the Asian basketball player that has boosted the NY Knicks' fortunes in as little as two weeks. Along with praise heaped on Lin has been a barrage...
View ArticleYes, we're getting along, mostly: L.A. riots twenty years on
Last week we posted some reactions to the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots that killed 53 people, wounded thousands and cost more than a billion dollars. It was a perfect storm of police...
View ArticleBlack women: stop living large
Here's an un-PC suggestion: black women should diet. It's not our suggestion. It's an editorial in the New York Times from Alice Randall, herself a black woman, and, she admits, overweight.read more
View ArticleWill Black churches continue denouncing same-sex marriage?
As we blogged last week, President Obama's support of marriage equality for all genders and sexual orientations was a watershed moment, even if it has no immediate legal impact (and even though he has...
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Driving While Latino
Here's an interesting statistic from 2012 study of 13 million traffic stops in North Carolina.read more
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Gay and Black TV characters up, Hispanics down
Compared to last year, African-American representation has grown from 9.9 per cent to 12 per cent, while Hispanic representation has decreased from 5.6 per cent to 4.1 per cent.read more
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Study: job slump has hit youth of color the hardest
The recession may have officially ended two years ago, but the fallout from the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression will still be with us for some time to come.read more
View ArticleOn CNN's documentary, "Black in America."
Last week, CNN ran a heavily-promoted show called "Black in America," promising that it would basically tell you everything you ever needed to know about what African-Americans face in the United...
View ArticleIs the GOP the "racial resentment party"?
We're not trying to pick on the Republican party here. Really, we're not. And surely we have readers who identify as Republicans. But this blog is about race and its intersection with aspects of...
View ArticleCompanies try to have it both ways with racist online ads
You may have heard about the recent online Mountain Dew ad, the minute-long spot, which has been removed from Odd Future’s YouTube channel and Mountain Dew’s website, depicting a police officer goading...
View ArticleReport: Blacks, Latinos underrepresented on cable news
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A racial empathy gap?
In the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, there was a fascinating discussion about race on a local public radio show in Los Angeles this week.read more
View Article50 Years On, a New Jim Crow Emerges
It was a sublime irony that exactly 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington, North Carolina (and other states) have passed the most draconian, the most discriminatory voting laws since the Civil...
View ArticleListening to the voices of "new America"
The silo approach to multicultural marketing is officially dead. That's not just the consensus of those who analyze the wants, needs, and biases of "non-white" Americans. It's what New American...
View ArticleTrader Joe's project shelved in Portland--might have attracted too many whites.
You read that correctly. The Portland, Oregon, African-American Leadership Forum and the NAACP helped to scuttle a project to build a Trader Joe's market on a vacant lot at Northeast Alberta Street and...
View ArticleAfrican-American, Latino students suspended at much higher rates
A new report out of Indiana University finds that African-American, Latino, LGBT and disabled students are suspended from school at disproportionate rates compared to white students.read more
View ArticleEmpathy has a racial bias
It's been two weeks since a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, decided not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in the killing of an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown. read more
View ArticleWhite family attacks cops. Guess what doesn't happen.
We haven't waded into the police brutality debate too much, but we can't help wondering how blacks and whites might differ in opinion when they see this video.read more
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