Here’s a piece from the New York Times about South Korea, where foreigners are greeted with racial slurs and face discrimination. For the first time, Parliament is considering legislation defining ethnic and racial discrimination and imposing criminal penalties.

“For most South…

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The New York Times has published a fascinating research into the family tree of Michelle Obama, who, the story says, “grew up with only a vague sense of her ancestry, aides and relatives said. During the presidential campaign, the family…

Not surprisingly, a CBS News/New York Times poll shows that black, whites and  non-white Hispanics have widely different views of how they are treated by police.

CBS News reports on the findings:

As President Obama prepares to meet with African-American professor Henry Louis…

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…

The New York Times has a substantial review of a PBS documentary airing tonight called “Looking for Lincoln.” The documentary, timed to commemorate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth on Thursday, was built to put the 16th president in context…

The presidency of Barack Obama ushers in a first family unlike any in our nation’s history, writes Jodi Kantor of the New York Times.

Her story carries this headline: THE FIRST FAMILY, UNLIKE ALL ITS PREDECESSORS, IS A PICTURE OF DIVERSITY. It…

We’ve talked about this in the office, now the New York Times has written a story about how movies and television helped change perceptions about what was normal. This story from Sunday talks about how culture helped prepare us for…

A story in the New York Times suggests that we are having more conversations about race — and are less anxious about doing so — because of Barack Obama. If you read deeply into the story, you’ll find we need all…