Tag: Race

Sheriff Clarke: Democrats ‘decimated the black family’

Sheriff Clarke: Democrats ‘decimated the black family’

Keith Koffler · May 22, 2016 5:19 pm

The presumptive Republican nominee has accrued a vocal band of racist, anti-Semitic followers. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Does Trump have to distance himself from his fringe supporters?

David M. Drucker · May 22, 2016 4:01 am

Resignation took place just hours after a black woman was fatally shot by a city officer. (Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Examiner via AP)

San Fran police chief resigns amid racial tensions

Kelly Cohen · May 20, 2016 7:11 pm

Poll: 90 percent of Native Americans not bothered by ‘Redskins’

Poll: 90 percent of Native Americans not bothered by ‘Redskins’

Kelly Cohen · May 19, 2016 3:49 pm

Sen. Mike Lee is the sponsor of an amendment to the 2017 transportation and housing spending bill that would prevent any federal spending on Obama's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mike Lee takes aim at Obama’s housing rule

Susan Ferrechio · May 19, 2016 4:01 am

Black Americans were the primary victims of the huge crime increase starting in the late 1960s, and they will be the primary victims again if the Ferguson effect continues to result in more homicides. Can't we prevent this awful history from repeating itself? (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

‘Ferguson effect’ is real, and it threatens to harm black Americans most

Michael Barone · May 18, 2016 10:13 pm

The judge stated the town's decision to send African-American and Caucasian students to separate schools has "deprived generations of students of the constitutionally guaranteed right of an integrated education." (AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Mark Bugnaski, File)

Mississippi town’s schools desegregated 62 years after Brown v Board of Ed.

Anna Giaritelli · May 16, 2016 9:46 pm

A judge has found Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in contempt of court Friday for disobeying his orders in a racial profiling case. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Sheriff Joe Arpaio found in contempt on racial profiling charges

Anna Giaritelli · May 13, 2016 8:21 pm

One bid on the website of the auctioneer, United Gun Group, for the 9 mm Kel-Tc PF-9 pistol was from a user named "Racist McShootface," who at one point offered $58 million. (AP Photo)

Internet trolls hijack George Zimmerman gun auction

Kelly Cohen · May 13, 2016 3:22 pm

In a letter to Chairwoman Janet Yellen, the members of Congress asked her to consider African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Pacific Americans and women for upcoming Fed posts. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Democrats accuse Fed of being too white, male

Joseph Lawler · May 12, 2016 5:45 pm

George Zimmerman calls the firearm, a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm, a "piece of American history," in the item description on gunbroker.com, an online auction website for firearms. (Screen shot)

George Zimmerman auctioning off gun used to kill Trayvon Martin

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 3:20 am

Slager, who is white, is already facing state charges in the death of Scott, 50, who was black. (Feidin Santana via AP Images, File)

Ex-cop in Walter Scott shooting faces federal civil rights charges

Kelly Cohen · May 11, 2016 5:49 pm