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Sen. Hillary Clinton told a newspaper that Robert F. Kennedy's assassination is a reason she's still running for president. That comment about Sen. Barack Obama's vulnerability drew sharp rebukes, but a firm Clinton reiterated that her campaign isn't over.
Italian officials have been criticized by the EU for their treatment of the ethnic group.
A lot of African-Americans have given up on BET and turn to other channels with black shows.
May 15, 2008 · Campaign workers for Barack Obama have faced racial slurs and slammed doors around the country. In Indiana, one campaign office was vandalized. The Obama campaign has chosen not to publicize the incidents. Washington Post reporter Kevin Merida talks with Michele Noris about race and the Obama campaign.
May 13, 2008 · Much has changed since the days when off-reservation schools were used to expel Indian culture. Students at Sherman Indian High School in California say they appreciate that instructors teach about other tribes. But budget cuts may put the schools in peril.
May 12, 2008 · The U.S. government operated 100 boarding schools for American Indians on and off reservations. One expert says the schools were part of a strategy to conquer Indians. Students who attended them were required to talk and dress as mainstream Americans.
May 13, 2008 · For six decades, Bertie Bowman has worked on Capitol Hill. He began as a 13-year-old sweeping the steps, and now he is the hearing scheduler for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In between, he forged friendships with some of the most prominent members of the Senate. Step by Step is his new memoir.
May 5, 2008 · Mildred Loving, a black woman who married a white man in 1958, when interracial unions were banned in Virginia, died last week. The couple's case made it to the Supreme Court, which overturned the Virginia ban in 1967.
May 5, 2008 · James Lee Woodard walked out of a Texas prison last week after almost three decades behind bars. The state now agrees that Woodard was wrongfully convicted in 1981 of killing a girl he had been dating. Woodard is the 17th man from Dallas to be cleared by DNA evidence.
May 4, 2008 · Fiery comments by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have thrust the black church into the national spotlight in recent weeks. But what exactly is "the black church" and is it as monolithic as it's being described?
May 4, 2008 · An ongoing archaeological project in Annapolis, Md., is revealing what life was like for African-Americans before and after slavery. Many of the finds detail how Africans were able to preserve their various religious beliefs while assimilating to American society.
April 30, 2008 · The Democratic presidential campaigns are crisscrossing Indiana, stopping in Republican strongholds such as Martinsville. In this town with a troubled racial history, voters share their views on the match-up between a white woman and a black man.
April 30, 2008 · Sen. Barack Obama used strong words Tuesday in a bid to distance himself from his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. What do black voters in North Carolina think about the issue?
April 30, 2008 · At a news conference Tuesday in North Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama strongly condemned recent remarks by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In recent days, Wright had sought to defend controversial comments he made in the past.
April 28, 2008 · Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor got a standing ovation Sunday night at an annual NAACP dinner in Detroit. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright talked to the crowd of roughly 12,000 people about cultural differences between blacks and whites and the changes needed to heal the nation.
