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All About Race is the place on the web for honest, passionate and open discussion about race in America. A wide range of ideas are represented and encouraged. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we don't. But we talk with each other in the hope of finding common ground.
Recent PostsBeing an honest, yet enthusiastic American requires the ability to consistently integrate the pretty, mythic narratives that our nation holds dear with the always more complicated and often very ugly truth of our American story. Like my experience of...
The FBI released its 2008 Hate Crime Statistics report yesterday. Overall Hate crimes were up 2%. That’s bad and it gets worse. In the wake of President Obama’s election, hate crimes against blacks rose 8%. Hate incidents related to the ...
The Mississippi Klan stirred up plenty of protest and not much else when they marched onto the University of Mississippi campus last Saturday. OXFORD, Miss. — Wearing traditional red, black and white robes and carrying flags representing the infam...
You have to hand it to Glenn Beck. He is a wizard at whipping up controversy and, therefore, publicity. Beck’s latest dangling shiny object comes in the form of an announcement that in order to support the sales of his upcoming book which will ...
Mike Huckabee has done something reasonable and, in these divided times, that makes it newsworthy and admirable. In a talk at the Hudson Union Society, where he discussed his forthcoming book, “A Simple Christmas”, Huckabee pushed back ag...
Given discussions about health care reform and mental health care swirling around right now, I thought I would re-post this piece which first appeared here at All About Race in 2008. People love to cast me as an example of the American dream. And I l...
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marenda taylorGreat blog I was lol at the Etta James article you bring up a great point
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