The Herald-Sun, in its front-page analysis (registration required) of the role race has played in the 2008 election, opens with a curiously misleading sentence: When Barack Obama announced he was ...

It’s not surprising to get involved in a heated discussion about race when you’re strolling through a museum exhibit called “Race: Are We So Different?” And wouldn’t you know that President Barack ...

Democrats historically have touted race and identity politics in the lead-up to high-profile elections, including former President Barack Obama chastising Black men for not supporting former Vice ...

My apologies for the absence from the blog for a day. I'm completely fried, just home from a quick back-and-forth to Cleveland, and I've got to be up early to try and catch an appearance by Gov. David ...

Thanks to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, we now have a statistical picture of the "Tea Party" movement. There are few surprises. It turns out that not quite 20 percent of Americans are Tea Party ...

Americans are less convinced that our first black president has helped race relations than they were at his inauguration, a Washington Post/ABC News poll reports. The percentage of people who say ...

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From the moment Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and America’s first African-American commander in chief, race took center stage in myriad ways in the national ...