During a recent radio interview, President Barack Obama made his first public remarks since the Justice Department released a damning report detailing the racist policing…

Courtesy of MSNBC Dot Com A South Dakota Republican lawmaker believes that businesses should have the right to refuse service to certain type of customers…

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I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands…

Growing up black in the South, I understood a few things: Watermelon was meant to be eaten with salt; fish was eaten every Friday night; and race was not discussed, especially not in public. Well, at least that was how it went in my house. As a child, I was very interested in history, particularly […]

On the afternoon of Aug. 13, three days after the release of the much anticipated movie The Help, W.I.L.D. (Women’s Institute of Leadership Development) Women hosted a discussion for nearly 100 women of faith. From various backgrounds and members of several Charlotte-area churches, the women gathered at Forest Hill Church on Park Road for a […]

Soledad O’Brien recently addressed how she felt when her “Blackness” was challenged during an interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson. O’Brien who identifies herself as a Black woman, is of Afro-Cuban and Irish decent. O’Brien is a renown advocate for Black and Latino people, notably for her work with CNN’s “Black In America”. Soledad O’Brien describes […]

From HuffPost.com: Four students have sued Savannah State University on the grounds that they were denied promised athletic scholarships because of they are white.The students…

VIA NEWSONE President Obama hails a post-racial future for America. But being colorblind to our society is not a smart move. It was summer 2004 when most of us first became familiar with Barack Obama. Then an Illinois state senator, the U.S. senate candidate delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston: […]

VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The U.S. Census Bureau’s county population estimates show that our nation is becoming older and more racially and ethnically diverse. One in every 10 counties nationwide have minority populations that exceed 50 percent, as does Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas and the District of Columbia, according to a Charlotte Observer article. These […]

In America, race and class are inextricably linked. Whether by chance, or more likely, by purpose, that is the reality that we must live with. Most of the children who attend New York’s Lower Laboratory School for Gifted Education and Straus School, and their parents, know this all too well.

VIA: www.elev8.com Does race matter? It’s a question that was brought to me the other day. And in the midst of all that’s going on in America — the first black President in the White House, politicians remarking that black people were better off during slavery, celebrities using inappropriate and racially charged words — it’s […]

Editorial Note: This article was first published on the site last winter.  We thought it was a good one so we decided to re-post it. Last week I talked about how interracial dating can go wrong by citing a certain website that is designed exclusively for those desiring only interracial relationships.