A New York Times/CBS News poll this week suggests the nation's racial climate has been dramatically changed by the election of America's first biracial president, with an apparently record high 66 percent of Americans saying race relations are good. more »
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Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., discusses racial disparities in the American economy and questions why a federal government that rushed to bail out large financial institutions has not done the same to hard-hit, long-depressed communities. more »
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openleft.com — The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, has come under quite a bit of fire for the decision to run Barry Blitt's illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama. Underneath the polite discourse is our continuing difficulty in having a frank, but constructive dialogue about the third-rail topic of race.
Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our blog team and progressive allies are reminding the nation of the full extent of his vision. King sought to push the limits of the national debate on economic justice as well as race—and, now more than ever, so must we.
“You know, Jesus reminded us in a magnificent parable one day that a man went to hell because he didn't see the poor. … And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell, if we don't use her wealth. more »
Pat Buchanan's latest rantings are merely the starkest evidence of a conservative effort to undermine the objective of Sen. Barack Obama's historic address, the objective of unity.
One in 100 is bad enough. One in nine is a full-blown national tragedy — one aided and abetted by conservative ideology. It's time they were called into account.
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Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our blog team and progressive allies are reminding the nation of the full extent of his vision. King sought to push the limits of the national debate on economic justice as well as race—and, now more than ever, so must we.
