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Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity.
The government of Peru is apologizing to its Afro-Peruvian population for the first time for centuries of abuse, exclusion and discrimination.
Former President Bill Clinton says he doesn't think racism is a principal factor in resistance to President Barack Obama's plan for overhauling health care.
Cabinet members rushed Friday to defend France's interior minister — a key ally of President Nicolas Sarkozy — amid calls for the man's resignation after he allegedly was caught on camera making anti-Arab remarks.
New York Gov. David Paterson says his comments last week suggesting some of his critics were motivated by racial bias have been misunderstood.
European soccer authorities have approved new guidelines for referees to act against racism in stadiums. The governing body also says games could be called off because of offensive chants.
The United Nations' top racism investigator says Washington needs to step up the fight against racial profiling.
The Italian Olympic Committee has suspended a ruling by the Italian soccer federation that had ordered Juventus to play its next Serie A home match in an empty stadium as punishment for fans' racist insults.
Over 100 countries agreed Tuesday on a declaration to combat racism and related forms of intolerance worldwide. The United States was not among them, prompting sharp criticism from African-American groups participating in the U.N.'s second global conference on racism.
Here are countries that are boycotting the U.N. conference on racism in Geneva this week:
The U.N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation campaign that almost derailed the meeting.
Israel recalled its ambassador to Switzerland Monday for "consultations" to protest the Swiss president's meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ahead of a U.N.-sponsored racism conference in Geneva.
President Barack Obama says the United States will not take part in the U.N. conference on racism because its organizers insisted on including "hypocritical" allegations against Israel.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday praised this week's U.N. anti-racism conference and urged countries to join forces to eliminate intolerance, as the Vatican appeared to distance itself from the U.S. boycott of the meeting.
The Dutch foreign minister announced Sunday he is boycotting a U.N. anti-racism conference because some nations are using it as a platform to attack the West.
The Obama administration will boycott "with regret" a U.N. conference on racism next week over objectionable language in the meeting's final document that could single out Israel for criticism and restrict free speech, the State Department said Saturday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime," sparking a walkout Monday by angry Western diplomats at a U.N. racism conference.
Israel is dissatisfied with the latest draft declaration for next month's U.N. racism meeting because the Jewish state feels it is still being singled out for criticism, its ambassador in Geneva said Wednesday.
Italy said Thursday it is pulling out of a U.N. conference on racism — the latest blow to a meeting seen by many Western governments as marred by Muslim attempts to attack Israel and shield Islam from criticism.
European Union countries Tuesday stepped up their opposition to Muslim attempts to shield Islam from criticism and attack Israel through a U.N. conference on racism.
The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the firing of a State Patrol trooper for his ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
The Obama administration said late Saturday it would participate in planning for a U.N. conference on racism despite concerns the meeting will be used by Arab nations and others to criticize Israel.
A friend of Prince Charles insisted Tuesday that the prince is not racist, after a newspaper reported that the heir to the throne refers to him as "Sooty."
Think you wouldn't tolerate a racist act? Think again, says a surprising experiment that exposed some college students to one and found indifference at best.
Racial Tensions Heat up at Meeting Over D.C. Middle SchoolWASHINGTON - D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is facing intense fire over the future of a Georgetown school.
I am sixty-nine years old and grew up in a Central Texas small town in the 1940s and 1950s. Racism (used in this article to refer to "black/white" discrimination) was pervasive. Vague memories reflect separate restrooms and water fountains at the courthouse.
Racist Obama image shines light on Web searching"hen a racist image of first lady Michelle Obama surfaced from the ugliest corners of the Internet last week to top Google's image search results, the episode shined a spotlight on the mysterious workings of search engines.
Jury: School Retaliated Against Black TeacherBOSTON -- A jury has found that the elite Boston Latin School retaliated against a black teacher who claimed discrimination after administrators stripped him of his teaching position and replaced him with a less experienced white teacher.
Washington Times Runs Anti-Obama Birther Ad Featuring Racial UndertonesThis latest national edition of the Washington Times features a full-page ad that claims that President Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. The ad was purchased by the anti-Obama website ProtectOurLiberty.org.
The Swiss Ban MinaretsWith word that the Swiss had unexpectedly voted to ban the construction of new minarets the predictable outcry against such "racism" has begun. The larger question is whether a nation is any more than a geographic entity.
Egyptian State Security Accused of Cover-up in Muslim Riots"In an effort to cover up the Muslim mob violence against the Copts which broke out last week in the town of Farshoot and neighboring villages (AINA 11-22-2009, 11-23-2009), and in view of the complete news blackout imposed by the Egyptian government, Egyptian State Security has …
Disney comes up with its first African-American princess"Disney has marked a new page in its history of animation after coming up with the first African-American princess. With the creation of Tiana in The Princess And The Frog, the entertainment giant has given the world its ninth princess.
John Pilger slams racism and lying of "Australia's Apartheid" against Indigenous PeopleJohn Pilger: "Australia's apartheid...There is to be no compensation for those thousands of Aborigines wrenched from their families as children, known as the stolen generation.... "intervention"...being consolidated."
Roma children perplex local educators - Parentcentral.caThey are Europe's Least Wanted – reviled for their unorthodox ways, hounded by white supremacists. Now the sudden arrival of Roma "gypsies" in Ontario has teachers here grappling to connect with some of the most perplexing students in the world.
Blacks hit hard by economy's punchJoblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population.
'No More Excuses' in the Age of ObamaEverywhere I turn these days I keep seeing or hearing the words, "No More Excuses." From black self-help book titles to black pundits on CNN, these three words have become the mantra of post-racialism in the Age of President Obama.
Unfair Housing: Study shows discrimination persists in mortgage application process"We strongly believe the results are troubling," said Peter Harvey, executive director of the Fair Housing Partnership, which was founded in 1984 to advance fair housing and equal opportunities.
Google Apologizes for Offensive First Lady ImageSpokesman Scott Rubin would not elaborate on how the image ended up as the number-one result for the first lady.
Google won't remove racist Michelle Obama image from search engineA crudely altered photograph of Michelle Obama, which often comes up as the first result on a Google image search of her name, will not be removed from the company's search process despite protests that the depiction is racist and repugnant.
This has been floating around emails for years, but it is still applicable and funny. Scary too:
North Naples student assaulted during 'Kick A Jew Day'There are disturbing accusations of anti-Semitism at a Collier County school. Ten students are serving suspensions for their roles in what was called "Kick a Jew Day" at North Naples Middle.
When a Woman's Body Becomes the Domain of the State, Part II "The most invasive forms of coercion used to enforce birth limits—forced abortion and forced sterilization—remain commonplace in many areas of China." He found language in the laws for the majority of the provinces that permit officials to use forced abortion and steriliz …
NYC: Racist Warmonger Robert Spencer Gets PiedNYU students disrupted a university event this evening featuring Robert Spencer from "Jihad Watch" and Elan Journo from the "Ayn Rand Institute for Individual Freedom." Students called out the panelists for their Islamophobic, warmongering hate-rhetoric, shouting and launching pi …
School district settle racial discrimination lawsuitThe incident on March 7, 2007, began when police told Deer Valley High School student Michael Housley, then 16, to stop blocking traffic as he walked with two other students through a shopping center near the school.
Are Israeli Security Agents Working Undercover as Security Guards for Israeli Airline El Al?A disgruntled former employee of the Israeli airline El Al has created a diplomatic crises between Israel and South Africa. It all began with a soft-spoken South African aggrieved over the alleged non-payment of a bonus by his former employer, the Israeli airliner El Al.
Lighter Skin, More Like Me - Study Finds Skin-Tone Bias At Both Ends of Ideological SpectrumA dart in the evolving science of perception and race: a new study suggests that self-described partisanship influences how a candidate with biracial skin tone is evaluated. The biracial candidate in question, of course, is Barack Obama.
The Girl Who Cried Racism"Ellis, 24, the celebrated Wal-Mart line-cutter, earned her 15-minutes of celebrity when she accused a Wal-Mart shopper, cashier, assistant store manager, security guard, and Kennett police officers of racism.
Obama the Racist?The question was recently posed to me, "Do you think Obama is a racist?" I answered, "Obama is the best kind of racist to whites, but the worst kind of racist to blacks." My questioner was perplexed.
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