A cartoon that appeared last Friday in the student-run newspaper at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania has prompted protests by students who consider it racist.
The cartoon panel in question was drawn by Keith Knight, himself an African-American.
It shows a black man…
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WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 09: U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress at the U.S. Capitol September 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama addressed the joint session to urge passage of his national health care plan,…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Colleague Doug Wong wondered in a blog post earlier this week if some members of the media were using the race card too much concerning criticism of President Barack Obama’s policies. Specifically, Moore noted Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This is an excerpted conversation from a recent e-mail exchange I had with an STLtoday reader, someone who has contributed comments to A Conversation about Race. It is illustrative of the misunderstanding we still have on issues of race —…
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The latest cover of the National Review has stirred debate over whether its editors intentionally wanted a racist depiction of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Liberal political blogger Matthew Yglesias has no doubt:
So National Review decided to run this very odd cover image…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The National Hispanic Media Coalition released a UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center report. The report, “Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio: Preliminary Report on a Pilot Study,” explores the role media play by studying three radio programs for evidence of…
(4 votes, average: 2 out of 5) Loading ...Some readers, responding to my recent post about Irene J. Smith, referred to the St. Louis mayoral candidate as “militant” or “racist.” Since starting here at the Post-Dispatch, many readers have put me in that same category, which I find…
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Barack Obama’s election brought a question to the minds of some Americans: Is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream fulfilled? Are we now blind to race? Some say yes, some say not yet.…
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Today is the day in many Christian faith traditions in which believers commemorate the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan by John the Baptist. It is typically a day in which families baptize their own children. In my own church,…
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