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James Ford Seale, who in 1964 committed one of the most gruesome acts of the segregationist South when he tied blocks to the feet of two black teenagers and threw them still breathing into the Mississippi river, has died – for the second time.

Federal prosecutors portray Michael Jacques as a racist who was so upset when Barack Obama was elected president that he and two other white men burned down a predominantly black church in western Massachusetts.

Several prominent black Republicans came to the support of the "Tea Party," accused by the NAACP of allowing "racist factions" to persist.

As China gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president, Chinese are confronting their attitudes toward race, including some deeply held prejudices about black people.