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…

Two pieces from reasononline.com argue that being angry at a president is an American tradition. (See previous posting, “Is anger at Obama based on his race?”)

Steve Chapman reminds us of some of the hateful accusations that occurred when George W. Bush…

It has been 55 years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision but the percentage of black students graduating from high school has not improved, according to information promoting a talk tomorrow (Sept. 23) sponsored by the YWCA…

Lots of conversations recently about whether the anti-Obama fury is race-based. Jeremy D. Mayer writes on Politico.com that he doesn’t think it’s all based on racism, but that Republican leaders are too complacent with the anti-black language and imagery being used…

It’s the start of college football season — that most wonderful time of the year. But once again, there are few NCAA-1A teams headed by African-American coaches. In fact, there are four out of 119 teams.

Tom Williams is starting the…

After five years and $6 million in legal fees, the Missouri State Supreme Court decided on Tuesday the current state distribution system of taxpayer-funded education budgets is constitutional. And strong opinions are forming. Read the P-D story here.

Less than half…

On Aug. 5, regular reader “The Bard” posed this question in a comment on A Conversation about Race: “One topic that I think would be revelant would be the definition of a ‘race.’ How much of what kind of genetics…

The two men at the center of the national debate over the disorderly conduct arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley had their moment at the White House and agreed to keep talking.

Crowley…

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 Washington Times is reporting that the Justice Department dropped a case against three New Black Panthers for intimidating voters at a Philadelphia poll in  November.

In an interesting twist, political appointees apparently overruled the career Justice Department lawyers who were seeking…