Jack Kerwick has written another op-ed dealing with the issue of racism (I took issue with one of his previous articles here). Money quote:Yet it is a mystery how...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesWhen Journey brought in Filipino pop star Arnel Pineda to fill Steve Perry's shoes as lead singer, some fans were outraged. A...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesJuneteenth celebration (Richmond, California). Photo: David Paul Morris / Getty Images.TheRoot.com's John McWhorter, a linguist at the University of California at Berkeley,...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesAlthough New York magazine cites Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan as an example of the "brownface" phenomenon, both Sandler and...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesPhoto: Lawrence Lucier / Getty ImagesLast Friday, Geraldine Ferraro answered exit poll data suggesting that racial resentment was a factor in several key...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesPhoto: Scott Olson / Getty ImagesThe Summer Olympics are still months away, but sports fans can still sit back and watch the Oppression...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesJack Kerwick, guest columnist for the new About.com: U.S. Conservative Politics site, is about half right. He's not crazy about the word...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesNicole Paultre-Bell and her mother await the verdict. Photo: Pool / Getty Images.Three men left a bachelor party. A group of...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesI just ran across the required reading section at The Angry Black Woman, and stumbled across her post on white liberal guilt--the debilitating...

by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil LibertiesNewsweek health writer Dean Ornish thinks so--and the data is on his side:In the past decade more than 100 studies have been published...

The League of United Latin American Citizens — the nation's oldest civil rights organization — meets in Washington, D.C., this week, and presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are slated to speak at the convention today. LULAC's national executive director, Brent Wilkes, discusses what he hopes to hear from candidates and the role Latino voters may play in elections this November.

Forty percent of New Mexico's voters are Hispanic, a demographic both heavily Democratic and connected to the military. In 2004, Hispanics swung right to help President Bush win the state in a time of war. This year, Iraq remains a central issue in the swing state.

Only one mixed-race candidate has won on a presidential ticket: Herbert Hoover's vice president, Charles Curtis. Curtis was half-Native American, a fact he touted during the 1928 campaign. He rose from a Kaw reservation to the national stage.

Jazz singer Rene Marie decided not to perform "The Star Spangled Banner" at a Denver civic event, and instead sang "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," known as the black national anthem. And that decision has been met with widespread scorn. Marie explains the fallout and why she doesn't regret her decision.

In the 1940s, Pepsi created an all-black sales force in an effort to reach out to black consumers. Allen McKellar was part of the first team to sell the soda in the Jim Crow South.

Jesse Helms' 30-year career in the U.S. Senate was marked by controversy and racial politics. The fierce advocate for segregation and king maker in North Carolina politics died Friday at the age of 86.

The Abrahamson family of New York City has a unique binary reality. They are both African-American and Hasidic Jews. In this week's Faith Matters conversation, the Abramsons discuss belonging to two communities that often misunderstand one another.

Hear listener and blogger reaction to recent conversations heard on the program. This week, listeners and bloggers respond to Michel Martin's visit to her old Brooklyn neighborhood. Plus, hear from a man who says the patriotism of African-Americans often marches to a different tune.

In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a thought-provoking Fourth of July speech, which was re-enacted Thursday night in Oakland, Calif. Co-host Renee Montagne has the story.

Smokers in Detroit talk about why menthol cigarettes are so popular in the black community. Then, Donna Christensen, head of the Congressional Black Caucus's Health Task Force, discusses why she is pushing to get stronger language into pending tobacco legislation.