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…

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…

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…

Two men who hung an effigy of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on the University of Kentucky campus won’t face charges, the Associated Press reports.

The Kentucky case was perhaps the most publicized of a series of effigy hangings just…

Dori J. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. reflects on the … unrest, violence, protest, demonstration, riot, rebellion … last week in Oakland and wonders which, if any, of those words is appropriate.

A blog post…

A debate of sorts has emerged over whether it matters that the group of reporters still assigned to covering the White House is mostly white.

Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby says it doesn’t. In an article on boston.com, he says:

“Barack Obama will…

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…