Is President Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage helping to create a change in opinion on the issue among African-Americans?

The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

White babies now constitute slightly less than half of American births.

The Department of Justice has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio claiming that his Department has been systematically violating the rights of Hispanic inmates and suspects: PHOENIX — The Justice Department on Thursday sued Joe Arpaio, a prominent Arizona sheriff known for his crackdowns aimed at rounding up illegal [...]

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

The Rule Of Law is incompatible with political rabble rousing

How about we recognize that we do have ongoing and serious racial tension in this country rather than ignoring the issue most of the time and only deploying it when the game of politics is being played?

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case takes yet another bizarre turn.

In somewhat of a surprising last minute move, the special prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin will not be presenting the case to a grand jury: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A grand jury will not look into the Trayvon Martin case, a special prosecutor said Monday, leaving the decision [...]

In a not entirely surprising development, John Derbyshire has been fired by National Review in the wake of his racist rant from yesterday: Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. (…) His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically  incorrect to the nasty [...]

NRO’s John Derbyshire went off on a bizarre, racist, rant yesterday.

While I do not support a rush to legal judgment or mob justice, I see no problem in forming opinions.

It’s time to let the legal system do its job.

A few quotes via BuzzFeed:  Romney, Santorum Comment On Trayvon Martin. Based on this, at least (and on my other post), it seems that Romney and Santorum are handling this with a bit more respect and propriety than is Gingrich.

“[T]he hoodie has become a signifier of disgruntled, malevolent youth, scowling and indolent.  The hoodie is the uniform of the troublemaker: its wearer may as well be emblazoned with a scarlet letter.”—Gaarth McLean, writing in the Guardian in 2005. “We—the people in suits—often see hoodies as aggressive, the uniform of a rebel army of young [...]

Looking also at Zimmerman’s 911 call and who pursued whom.

Solutions come from understanding, not denial or political posturing

Roger Ebert and I don’t agree on much, from politics to movies. But share a fondness for Samuel L. Jackson and a contempt for George Zimmerman.

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the night of February 27th. Martin died, and a firestorm has erupted.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.

E-mail forward raises serious questions about judge’s judgment .

Two prominent Florida Republicans are warning their party about losing the support of the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group.

Republicans are learning that their hard line on immigration comes with a political price.

The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?

John Hawkins has compiled a list of The Top 20 Most Influential Black Republicans. It’s not impressive.

What was written on a rock outside of a hunting lodge in Texas 30 years ago doesn’t really matter all that much.

Why does what was painted on a rock 30-odd years ago matter today?

Marcia Anderson has become the first African American woman to be promoted to a two star general in the US Army.

Dick Morris has a penchant for counter-intuitive analysis. And for being wildly wrong.

Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

Responding to an apparently ongoing controversy over diversity standards in admissions, the Berkely College Republicans are holding a Bake Sale: BERKELEY, Calif. — A bake sale sponsored by a Republican student group at the University of California, Berkeley, has incited anger and renewed the debate over affirmative action by asking students to pay different prices [...]

College towns and lily white enclaves top the list of best educated cities.

Support for interracial marriage is now almost universal across America.

President Obama’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. Only 33% of whites and 48% of Hispanics approve. He’s still at 84% among blacks.

Just so we’re clear that the inflammatory, and uncalled for, rhetoric is not solely a province of the right, I give you Congressman Andre Carson, representing Indiana’s 7th Congressional District: A top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus says tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see African-Americans hanging from trees and accuses the [...]

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.

Pat Buchanan referred to President Obama as “your boy” in conversation with Al Sharpton.

A shocking, but as I will explain below not surprising, study: Black men are half as likely to die at any given time if they’re in prison than if they aren’t, suggests a new study of North Carolina inmates. The black prisoners seemed to be especially protected against alcohol- and drug-related deaths, as well as [...]

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

I’ve been arguing for years that what the Republican Party needs is to embrace its crazies and play more to racist elements in its base. It looks like someone’s listening.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Cynthia Tucker regrets her support for majority-minority districts.

Do Republicans like Herman Cain because he’s black?

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

Assuming it’s accurate, this may qualify as the most depressing poll result I’ve seen in quite sometime: Americans nationwide are evenly divided over the issue of same sex marriage. But Republicans in Mississippi are divided over a wholly different wedlock issue: interracial marriage. In a PPP poll released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican [...]

Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.