The St. Louis Beacon takes on the issue of dress codes and how they are sometimes used to keep black men out of clubs. The story By Elia Powers follows up on the Chicago case in which a black Washington University…

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 kissing photo

When the Post-Dispatch published this photo on the cover of “Go” in April, we caused a firestorm of comments to break our in this blog — more than 350 people weighed in for it, against it, or indifferent…

Recently, I received this e-mail from a Washington University professor who’s been keeping up with the dialogue on this blog:

“Unfortunately, all too often, when it comes to conversations about race, any real attempt to get good information goes out the window,…