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Jerry Seinfeld recently made some pretty bold and unpolitically correct statements surrounding race and gender in comedy and one Black comedienne, Nicole Byer is...

  Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis says Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropped a plan to appoint him the state's first physical fitness...

Darrell Wallace Jr. celebrates winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series truck race at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, VA., Saturday, Oct. 26,...

(The Root) -- Sometime last week, a poll was released by Reuters/Ipsos that found 40 percent of white Americans had no friends of...

(The Root) -- Trayvon Martin's tragic death has inspired nationwide demonstrations and calls for action that have reverberated all the way to the...

  The sky is blue, water is wet, and most white people would rather not engage in conversations about race that would address reality...

(The Root) -- The question for this week's column comes, loosely, from Slate's William Saletan, who asked me to throw some ideas around...

Leontine G. sent in a troubling example of the framing of children’s deviance, and their own complicity in this framing. She included two links: one to a "Today" show story about a 7-year-old boy who took his family’s car on a joyride and got caught by police, and one to a CNN story about a 7-year-old boy who took his family’s car on a joyride and got caught by police. Different 7-year-olds. One white, one black.

(The Root) -- "I am remarried and now have a blended family with two teenage sons. One is black (10 years old) and...

(The Root) -- It doesn't hurt to have a little white privilege on your side. If you can get it. And George Zimmerman...