The Arizona House of Representatives passed legislation Monday that has many scratching their heads: prohibiting abortions on the basis of the fetus’ presumed race or gender.
A study in the American Sociological Review released today (PDF) shows that predatory lending aimed at minority neighborhoods has led to an uneven and unfair distribution of foreclosures. Princeton Prof. Douglas Massey and graduate student Jacob Rugh studied 100 metro areas and found that in black and Hispanic neighborhoods, More…
Matt Bai has an interesting piece on “post-racial” candidates in today’s New York Times:
What’s notable about Ms. Haley’s campaign, like that of Mr. Obama and other candidates, is not just that she has breached a racial and cultural barrier, but that she doesn’t feel the need — or
Recently, South Carolina Republicans have attracted a fair amount of positive national attention (a welcome change from last summer). Not only have they tapped Nikki Haley as their gubernatorial nominee — putting her a general election away from becoming the state’s first non-white, non-male governor — but they overwhelmingly voted More…
Democratic candidate Matt Campbell, who is challenging Republican Rep. Steve King in Iowa’s 5th Congressional District, has issued a stinging response to King’s statement, made to talk show host G. Gordon Liddy on Monday, that President Obama “has demonstrated he’s got a default mechanism in him that breaks down More…
When the Census Bureau announced it planned to spend $80 million of its $340 million ad campaign on outreach to hard-to-reach communities — including minorities and immigrants — early this year, many said that it wouldn’t be enough. Based on data tracking participation rates around the country, those critics may More…
In the giddy, post-electoral haze in 2008, many people hoped and believed that the election of President Obama would herald a new, “post-racial” America. But a look at some recent economic statistics tells a different story.
While overall employment in March stood at 9.7 percent, some 16.5 More…
Black homeowners are roughly 50 percent less likely than whites to receive help under the largest of the administration’s anti-foreclosure programs, according to a new survey of qualified families.
The findings have raised questions on Capitol Hill about the fairness of the program, led housing advocates to reiterate calls More…
Barack Obama might not ever say that we live in a post-racial society, but his election was heralded by many as the beginning of an American era not bedeviled by historical racial disparities. When asked last year about race-based affirmative action programs, Obama suggested that class might be More…
TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded only by his knowledge of comic book history. Weigel and Olbermann discussed a recent Captain America comic that featured crowds of protesters holding signs that looked More…
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