In an earlier post, I mentioned “A Story of Rhythm and Grace,” a book by former rock musician and current pastor Jimi Calhoun about how the church can learn from rock and roll about healing the racial divide. I’ve read a…

An April symposium on Racial Formation 2009 yielded a discussion on how media can better cover issues of race. Held at the University of Oregon, the conference addressed several pitfalls that inject biases and skew story perceptions based on words…

Why does A Conversation about Race exist?

Poynter, the media training center, tackles that question in an article today titled “Biracial Couple Photo Sparks Negative Comments on Post-Dispatch Blog.”

In her Diversity at Work blog on Poynter.org,  Mallary Jean Tenore examines the reactions to…

From time to time, we get calls — or comments on online stories — asking why we didn’t identify the race of a crime suspect, particularly when police are seeking someone.

Whenever readers ask this, I am reminded of a seminar…