St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Heather Ratcliffe is in Kennett, Mo., reporting on a court case with racial implications that’s drawing national attention that many in the southeast Missouri town don’t want.

Thursday’s Post-Dispatch will have a front-page story about the felony trial of…

The liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America is trying to pressure CNN to drop Lou Dobbs because Dobbs continues to flame the controversy over President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and the legitimacy of his presidency. (There’s a discussion of…

I ran across a commentary entitled ”Why race still matters” on CNN’s web site today. It was written by Daria Roithmayr, a law professor at the University of Southern California, where she teaches on race and law; and Guy-Uriel Charles, a law…

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“Black in America 2″ begins tonight on CNN, at 8 p.m. St. Louis time.  Tonight’s two-hour segment will be followed by two more hours Thursday evening.

CNN’s web page about the program states:

This July, CNN continues its investigation of the…

The New York Post has apologized for the chimpanzee cartoon. If you consider what follows to be an apology. Under an online headline “That Cartoon,” the Post offers:

Wednesday’s Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday’s police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut…

A story I found today ran last week on CNN.com. It gives the results of a study in the journal Science about whether we tend to be more racist than we think we are. CNN’s story led me to a…