Tag: Race

"At OPM we've been working with agencies to help leaders across government understand just what unconscious bias is and how to guard against it," Cobert said. (AP File Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Feds push to eliminate ‘unconscious bias’ at work

Pete Kasperowicz · April 15, 2016 4:01 am

"Simply put, this is environmental racism," the Clinton campaign said in describing the new policy position. "And the impacts of climate change, from more severe storms to longer heat waves to rising sea levels, will disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities, which suffer the worst losses during extreme weather and have the fewest resources to prepare." (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Energy and Environment

Clinton seeks to combat ‘environmental racism’

John Siciliano · April 13, 2016 8:03 pm

After De Blasio made the joke, which centered on him explaining why it took him so long to endorse Clinton in the Democratic primary, the former secretary of state jumped in to explain "CP" stood for "cautious politician." (David Handschuh/The Inner Circle Via AP, File)

Media finally covers Clinton-de Blasio ‘racist’ joke

Becket Adams · April 13, 2016 4:01 am

This is yet more evidence of what some have called a Ferguson Effect, of police refraining from proactive law enforcement and criminals shooting more victims, almost all of them black. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Beltway Confidential

Crime rates are rising and the crime issue may be coming back

Michael Barone · April 13, 2016 2:23 am

Clinton throws NY mayor under the bus

Clinton throws NY mayor under the bus

Becket Adams · April 13, 2016 1:18 am

Media hit O’Reilly for ‘ill-educated’ blacks remark

Media hit O’Reilly for ‘ill-educated’ blacks remark

Eddie Scarry · April 12, 2016 2:13 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Media ignores New York mayor and Clinton’s racially tinged joke

Becket Adams · April 11, 2016 8:31 pm

When President Obama took office, about 16 percent of people were worried about race relations, and that number has grown in most years under Obama. (AP Photo)

Worries about race relations spike in Obama’s last two years

Kelly Cohen · April 11, 2016 2:34 pm

Rev. Al Sharpton accused both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders of attempting to "rewrite history" in recent attempts to walk away from their support of a 1994 crime bill. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Sharpton accuses Clinton, Sanders of trying to ‘rewrite history’

Daniel Chaitin · April 10, 2016 5:58 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that rival Hillary Clinton used racially-coded language in 1996 when she cited "super-predators." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Sanders: Clinton’s ‘super-predator’ line meant ‘young blacks’

Rudy Takala · April 10, 2016 3:03 pm

Beyonce said that "anyone who perceives my message as anti-police is completely mistaken." (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Beyonce: I’m not anti-police, just ‘against police brutality and injustice’

Joshua Axelrod · April 5, 2016 8:50 pm

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is a feminist and a liberal, but she's also too white for some at the all-women's Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

College students object to ‘white feminist’ Madeleine Albright as commencement speaker

Red Alert Politics · April 5, 2016 7:39 pm