The Dividing Lines of Race, Ethnicity and Religion

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jan 5, 2016 What do you think the response would be if a bunch of black people, filled with rage and armed to the teeth, took over a federal government installation and defied officials to kick them out? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be wait-and-see. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Income Gap Between Races Is Wider Than It’s Been for Decades

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Dec 23, 2014 Wealth inequality between whites and their black and Hispanic counterparts has reached its highest point since the late ’80s and early 2000s in the U.S. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Minority Majority

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America’s Increasingly Diverse Electorate Is Heard

William Pfaff / Truthdig Nov 8, 2012 Abroad, the widely noted aspect of Barack Obama's re-election victory was its social and class character. The president was re-elected by a majority of American minorities. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Time Out: Let’s Talk About Race

Staff / Truthdig Feb 29, 2012 A mistake on Time magazine's latest cover has opened a nationwide conversation about race and ethnicity; Rick Santorum belittles American public education, calling it an "anachronism"; is the U.S. finally done with Afghanistan? These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

High Court Scrutinizing Affirmative Action at Colleges

Staff / Truthdig Feb 21, 2012 A hot-button issue from the ’80s and ’90s has come up once again at the U.S. Supreme Court: affirmative action on the college level. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Student Debt by Skin Color

Staff / Truthdig Oct 29, 2011 You may know that American student debt—which is swelling at a rate of almost $3,000 a second—is expected to hit $1 trillion by the end of the year. But do you know how the tab breaks down by ethnicity? Who owes the most? Who owes the least? Is anyone escaping its debilitating grip? (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover

Marcia Alesan Dawkins / Truthdig Mar 8, 2011 We need to remember that beauty and race are both social constructions—concepts societies create that may not actually exist in nature. As a result, beauty and race are associated with and impacted by class, immigration, gender, sexuality and marketing.Are mixed race faces considered the most beautiful? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Merkel: Multiculturalism Has Failed

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2010 Maybe she sipped a bit too much during Oktoberfest, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stumbled to the right after she claimed that multiculturalism has "utterly failed," stirring the proverbial cultural melting pot to suggest that immigrants have not effectively integrated into German society. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Racializing Abortion in Georgia

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2010 A Georgia anti-choice group has a "choice" strategy to cater to African-Americans in an effort to diversify its majority-white membership: launch a public outreach campaign that argues that abortion is a decades-old conspiracy to kill off black people. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Not So Fast, Chris Matthews

Marcia Alesan Dawkins / Truthdig Jan 30, 2010 Many argue that Obama’s election to the presidency and status as global “supercelebrity” are signs that we have entered a post-racial moment in which everyone and everything are mixed. Among these believers is Chris Matthews of MSNBC. Many argue that Obama’s election to the presidency and status as global “supercelebrity” are signs that we have entered a post-racial moment in which everyone and everything are mixed. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

HP’s Facial Non-Recognition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 24, 2009 A black man named Desi, along with a white woman named Wanda, has quite comically figured out that new Hewlett-Packard computers touting "face recognition" software are embarrassingly inadequate in detecting black faces. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )