Tag: Race

At last weekendâs Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix, Martin OâMalley, the former Maryland governor whose candidacy has made few ripples so far, was faced with âBlack Lives Matterâ protesters. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Increasingly divided Democrats causing problems for their party

Michael Barone · July 22, 2015 9:48 pm

The trial for Dylann Roof has been scheduled to start Nov. 7. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

National Security

Shooter in Charleston church massacre indicted on 33 federal charges

Kelly Cohen · July 22, 2015 8:01 pm

Mullahs’ Military Shopping List

Thomas Donnelly · July 21, 2015 4:53 pm

Blacks and Asians are particularly likely to prefer campuses with higher rates of black and Asian students, respectively.Â (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

New study: College applicants prefer schools with lots of same-race students

Jason Russell · July 20, 2015 8:17 pm

The campaign poses as a business called "White Squad," in which clients of color receive "the social and institutional benefits previously only available to white people." (Image courtesy screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

MTV campaign satirizes white privilege

Emily Leayman · July 20, 2015 4:49 pm

People wave Confederate flags outside the hotel where President Obama is staying the night, on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Oklahoma City. Obama is traveling in Oklahoma to visit El Reno Federal Correctional Institution. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Confederate flags greet Obama in Oklahoma City

Emilie Padgett · July 16, 2015 3:30 pm

A shirt in a shop along East 4th Street in downtown Cleveland, which has been chosen for the 2016 Republican National Convention. (Getty)Â

RNC kicks off new black outreach campaign

Gabby Morrongiello · July 14, 2015 9:43 pm

Sarah Mercer, of San Antonio, makes a photo of a Texas flag elephant statue during the set up before the start of the Texas Republican Convention Wednesday, June 6, 2012, in Fort Worth, Texas.Â

The (conservative) heart of the matter

Noemie Emery · July 14, 2015 4:01 am

William Horton, left, a convicted killer who raped a woman and assaulted her fiance while on release as part of a prison furlough program supported by Michael Dukakis, right, when he was governor of Massachusetts. (AP Photos)

Beltway Confidential

Liberal dredges up old racist fears

Michael Barone · July 14, 2015 1:06 am

(MTV)

Controversial new MTV documentary tackles ‘white privilege’

Kelly Cohen · July 11, 2015 9:06 pm

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Vietnamese Communist party secretary general Nguyen Phu Trong in the Oval Office of the White House, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama: Federal gov’t will integrate races into wealthy communities

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 3:32 pm

Demetrus Washington joins other demonstrators protesting the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on August 14, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on August 9. Police in Ferguson have changed their procedure for dealing with the protests after being chastised for a heavy-handed approach which has resulted in four days of violence. Today three police cars and four officers on foot led the way during a protest march. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

10 steps to restoring the common trust

Rob Wasinger · July 11, 2015 4:01 am