All posts tagged "African-Americans"

Recently uncovered video indicates that Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson may have fringe views -- other than those on homosexuality and civil rights -- that most Americans would find far outside the mainstream.

Fifty years after the "dream" of racial equality invoked by Martin Luther King at the March on Washington, the reality is that African-Americans still suffer the most unemployment.

A new report, released on Wednesday, shows that African Americans are twice as likely as white to receive death sentences, according to Mother Jones.

Speaking to a crowd at New Hampshire on Thursday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that African Americans would rather collect food stamps than find employment.

I've been complaining about the rise African-American fiction sections since I worked at a Borders back in 2005. As Carleen Brice points out, there are actually two problems with the sections: the first is that they tend to send a signal to non-black audiences that These Mysterious Books Are Not For You, the second is that they lump together a wide variety of books under the broad genre of "African American fiction", most of which have nothing to do with each other.

UPDATE: the openly gay president of People for the American Way, Kathryn Kolbert, has released a statement. It's below the fold.