Tag: race/ethnicity
Lopez Tonight canceled: TV 'really, really white again'
The disconnect between America's multiracial society and what's represented in media....
Evolutionary roots of xenophobia
Studies of chimpanzees may provide some answers to our fear and suspicion of foreigners....
Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer discuss 'The Help'
The stars and writer-director Tate Taylor discuss their film about black maids in 1960s segregated Mississippi....
Marvel unveils new, multiracial Spiderman
Marvel announces Miles Morales, a half-Latino, half-African-American teenager will be swinging on his web between New York City buildings as the new Spiderman....
Interview with Sapphire, the author of 'Push'
Fifteen years after writing the book which became the film 'Precious,' Sapphire writes 'The Kid,' about Precious' son, Abdul....
Hate-crime victim fights execution of his attacker
Rais Bhuiyan is petitioning Texas lawmakers to spare the life of the man who tried to end his....
Who benefits from race-based science
A new book explores how big business and political systems benefit from classifying race as biological category....
Black unemployment at Depression-era levels
The number of African Americans without jobs is now at 16.2%, with African American males at 17.5%....
Palestinian cartoonist Majed Badra accused of anti-Semitism
With visa approved and plane ticket in hand, Palestinian cartoonist Majed Badra was uninvited from a trip to the United States....
"The Loving Story" that decriminalized interracial marriage
A new documentary tells the story of the couple whose 1967 US Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, overturned anti-miscegenation laws. ...
