By Lee A. Daniels
Before the heat got too great. Before the criticism forced them to shelve – at least, momentarily – the moral-deadening posture of “Lost Cause romanticism.” Before somebody told them You can’t say things like that today and get away with it, the self-proclaimed Christian pressure group, the FAMiLY Leader, revealed that when it comes to black Americans, its “traditional” views are very old-fashioned indeed.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Near the end of a new book on India, where I was a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post in the late 1990s, I read about a 2006 government report’s finding that Muslims had fewer jobs in the formal economy “than any other community.” That would include the former untouchables, Hindus now known as Dalits.

By George E. Curry
Are African-Americans less supportive of homosexuality than other racial and ethnic groups? The answer is an emphatic yes. But the reasons have more to do with religion than race.

By Lee A. Daniels
It only takes one.

It only takes one black American who has done something wrong – or has been accused of doing something wrong – and that special group of people comes charging out of the woodwork.

You know who I mean: those people – be they white, black or other – who seize on the flimsiest of straws to make wholesale negative ethnic-based generalizations about black people, black culture, black institutions.

By Lee A. Daniels
Since the election of Ronald Reagan especially, it’s become the mantra of the conservative quest to make racial bigotry not disappear but just become unacknowledged.

By Lee A. Daniels The Muslim-American residents of Murfreesboro, Tennessee have discovered this summer they’re not as “American” as they perhaps thought they were. Not in the hearts and minds of some of their non-Muslim neighbors, anyway. And so, they now find themselves on the other side – the bad side – of the “tipping [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
Today, American society is flooded with virulent, racially-driven images and rhetoric hurled against the President, saturated with the demonizing of undocumented Latino immigrants and calls for scrapping the constitutional protection all children born in America should enjoy, and degraded by cynical assertions that guilt-by-association is valid principle to apply to people who are not white

By Lee A. Daniels
The words practically leapt out of the Sunday New York Times article on the suddenly growing opposition in some cities and towns to proposals by Muslim Americans to build or expand their mosques.

By Desiree Cooper
My Name is Khan, which tackles the racial profiling of Muslims after September 11, 2001, has broken records for a Bollywood film, grossing more than $19 million worldwide since its Valentine’s Day release, and more than $2 million in its limited release in the United States

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
As April 15 marks the second anniversary of the Tea Party movement, the burning question on the minds of many Americans is: Will anti-government activists use the ballot or the bullet to achieve their freedom dreams in the 2010 midterm elections?