Race Relations

Now that John McCain's selected Sarah Palin as his VP for the national election, I just have one question: How ya' gonna throw down now? Sincerely, A Woman of Color for Women's Liberation and Racial Justice P.S. By the way, it's not an either/or on racial justice and women's liberation...  

*To shouts of "Yes we can," Democrats nominated Barack Obama on Wednesday as their presidential candidate in a historic first for a black American, sending him into battle against Republican John McCain.  

At the first official event Sunday of the Democratic National Convention, a choir belted out a gospel song and was followed by a rabbi reciting a Torah reading about forgiveness and the future.Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun who wrote 'Dead Man Walking,' assailed the death penalty and the use of...  

"Authoritarianism, the soil of racism, makes dominant white culture in the United States an easy pawn of fascism." So said social-psychiatrist Erich Fromm and others who argued that racism "renders its proletarian benefactors passive and weak, ready to coalesce into angry or obedient mobs but...  

How many African American males will be killed before we begin to implement community based solutions?  

The statistics regarding the educational status of America are both staggering and unequivocally show a downturn, but the educational status of Black youth is frightening. An educational conference that took place the weekend of July 31, at the Salaam Restaurant and M.U.I., were a part of what...  

Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr. The Life Education And Resource Network is demanding that Planned Parenthood remove the racist depiction of an African American youth giving oral sex to a White youth under the auspices and instruction of a White guidance counselor. This display can be viewed on...  

By Alexander Bolton DENVER — Racial prejudice is being cited among senior union leaders to explain Sen. Barack Obama’s difficulty in winning over support ...  

And yet in that same poll, 16 percent of black voters said the same thing — which indicates that the answers reflect suspicions about other people’s racism ...  

Remember the Keep a Child Alive campaign when Gwyneth Paltrow and other celebrities declared, "I am African," and painted their faces in solidarity against the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Well, as bad as that was, it isn't as bad as the latest craze. According to fashion sources, "tribal" is the...  

*Danny Glover says Hollywood racism is the reason why he could never get his film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint L'Ouverture off the ground.  

The Obama Presidential campaign is off to a terrible start. The cerebral, thoughtful persona that Obama projects in his campaign advertisements, ...  

"No one wants an angry African-American man in the White House," he said. Sen. Jim Clyburn (DS.C.) expanded on the analogy, adding that Obama's "got to be ...  

The First Baptist Church of Chesterbrook had been defaced by a racial epithet. The inflammatory word was spray-painted in large block letters next to the church's front door, Fairfax County police said in a news release. "It was very disturbing to the membership" and "to me," said James R. King...  

By Stephen Magagnini - smagagnini@sacbee.com Mickey Rooney got heartburn when he learned why his 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" had been pulled for ...