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Finally, a national conversation on race

For years, we’ve all been lamenting the lack of a real, meaningful national discussion on race. Starting TODAY, we hope you’ll join with us to fix that. Following in the tradition of dialogue championed by Race-Talk, we are very excited to announce today the “Race & America’s Future Virtual Book Club” – a six-week, online [...]

By Dr. Ibram H. Rogers The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently forced its Georgia director of rural development, Shirley Sherrod to resign for her supposed racism. On Monday, a conservative blogger published a two-minute, 38-second video clip of a March 27 NAACP banquet. In the video, Sherrod apparently says she was in a position to come [...]

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We continue to act surprised when incidents occur that make it clear: race matters. The recent hubbub about the Harvard Law student email struck me as interesting for one main reason. We were surprised. Most of the commentary focused on the student, Harvard Law School, or law school in general (see this link for an [...]

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Originally posted on Psychology Today Does the election of Barack Obama mark a major shift in the Western World from the Faustian dream of always having more? Remember old Dr. Faust, the mad genius who was driven by an insatiable striving for worldly knowledge, power, and wealth, even at the cost of his own soul. [...]

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Generally when someone says that a situation isn’t about race, they are mistaken. It is. At least for somebody the situation is about race. The questions become just how much of it is about race and how many somebodies are we talking about? A current case in point is the evaluation of the Chairman of [...]

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Henry Fernandez, Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress contributed to this article At the heart of this specious challenge to fairness for all U.S. workers is the idea that blacks resent undocumented Latino immigrants for taking away jobs that would rightfully belong to them. Restrictionist opponents to immigration reform seize on this line of [...]

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Conventional wisdom says “Stay away from race. It’s a distraction at best and polarizing at worst.” With a Black president, this advice seems to be repeated louder and more often than before. Unfortunately, for those interested in progressive policy, President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress are buying the conventional wisdom; and they’re losing. Healthcare [...]

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Is This Video Racist?

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What’s funny about this video? The answer probably says a lot more about you than it does about the video. Is the video racist? Sometimes, it depends on who is watching.

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I’ve been navigating the waters of race conversations for over two decades and discovered that success in race relationships is a lot like training for a marathon. In both race talks and running I intimately know the importance of pacing, patience and pain. When I ran my first half marathon three years ago, I couldn’t [...]

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More than words

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I am particularly struck by the importance of language and terminology at this time of year. With the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., talk of race is everywhere. “Have we achieved his dream,” is the constant question. Some would argue that Obama is King’s dream personified. However, we must keep the context of [...]

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