Obama, black America and the racial backlash

Goldie Taylor

OPINION - Many, including whites and blacks, are pointing to Obama’s ethnicity as a deciding or at least informing factor—albeit for different reasons. Ironically, both groups point to racial prejudice as the culprit...

AP poll: US majority harbor prejudice against blacks

Sonya Ross and Jennifer Agiesta, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks...

Why did a white South African rap duo use blackface?

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

OPINION - Instances such as this demonstrate that the world has a long way to go before it will be 'post-racial'...

Halloween display resembles lynching

Ugonna Okpalaoka

theGRIO REPORT - St. Louis Zoo officials have taken down their Halloween ghost display after receiving complaints that it resembled African Americans being lynched, KMOV reports.

'White History Month' flyers spark outrage

Abdul Sada

Outrage was sparked at Mercer University on Monday night after flyers advocating that November and December be dedicated as ‘White History Months’ were posted in residence halls around the Macon, Georgia, campus...

Blackface is still popular around the world

Lori L. Tharps

theGRIO REPORT - From Mexico to South Africa, in Sweden and in Germany, it is not uncommon to find what we in the United States would consider racist images of black people being used on product labels and in advertising for everything from popsicles to chocolate candies..

White teens in blackface re-enact Chris Brown-Rihanna beating

Abdul Sada

theGRIO REPORT - Three white high school students in Waverly, New York, performed a satirical 're-enactment' of Chris Brown's infamous beating of his then-girlfriend Rihanna, in blackface, at a pep rally in front of students, parents, community leaders, and the media...

Do black people support Obama because he’s black?

Jesse Washington, Associated Press

(AP) - Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama...

Etsy accused of racism for selling Sambo, Mammy memorabilia

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

Alongside a hand-knitted tea cozy, consumers can also purchase Black Sambo ashtrays and Aunt Jemima cookie jars using the e-commerce engine.

Anti-Obama display includes watermelons, noose