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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.

President says angry criticisms about health care are driven by debate over role of government — not racism

Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel after a vacation on Monday with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist.

Two weeks after a noted black scholar accused a white police sergeant of racial profiling for arresting him at his home near Harvard University, the men hoisted mugs of beer Thursday evening at the White House with President Obama and Vice President Biden.

Police Sgt. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates have agreed to a meeting mediated by the president. The meeting this week between the scholar, the officer who arrested him and President Obama will be closely monitored. The White House hopes ...

The president said he 'could have calibrated those words differently,' referring to his comments on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that he has talked to arresting officer Sgt. James Crowley.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor dominated the sounds of Sunday, as you might expect on the weekend after the first African-American president announced his nomination of the first Latina woman for the nation's highest court.

During last year's election campaign, liberal media members treated Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with a hatred most Americans had never witnessed from the press. On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's Tea Parties with the same vitriolic contempt.

The mayor of a small Southern California city says he will resign after being criticized for sharing an e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."

Reuters - Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to boycott the New York Post on Thursday, branding the newspaper as racist for publishing a cartoon that appeared to compare President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.