MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman asks his readers what grade they would give the media for the way we cover race relations in America? And we’re wondering what grade you’d give the local media in covering race?

In Friedman’s commentary leading up to that…

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Benjamin Todd Jealous, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was featured in a question and answer article in the New York Times Magazine earlier this month. We were intrigued by the very last…

Soledad O'Brien

“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…

Among those remembered during the D-Day commemorations in France is the 320th Antiaircraft Barrage Balloon Battalion. The unit send up tethered silver balloons intended to confound German pilots trying to bomb or strafe exposed Allied troops during the invasion. William…

The latest New York Times/ CBS News poll reports that the public thinks race relations in the United States have progressed under Barack Obama’s presidency

A story in the Times reports that “two-thirds of Americans now say race relations are generally good, and…

The Washington Post published a thought-provoking story about a bubbling debate in the Black community regarding scrutiny of President Barack Obama.

Though some of Obama’s highest approval ratings can be found among African Americans, Black academics, political pundits, bloggers, politicians, celebrities and…

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…

Susan Glisson

The election of Barack Obama does not end America’s problems with race, argues Susan Glisson, director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. In a CNN.com commentary yesterday, Glisson offered compelling reasons why the country still needs to confront…