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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks about the Department of Homeland Security's recent announcement about deportation of illegal immigrants in the Rose Garden at the White House June 15, 2012 in Washington, DC. With the DREAM Act unable to gain traction in Congress, Obama announced that his administration would stop deporting some young people who came to U.S. as children of illegal immigrants. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Radio host in Arizona calls Obama a 'monkey'

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Barbara Espinosa, an Arizona radio host, is in hot water after calling President Obama a 'monkey'....
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Republican Presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks to the media about speculation on his Vice Presidential search on June 19, 2012 in Holland, Michigan. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Will right-wing racism derail Romney?

Michael Arceneaux
OPINION - Mitt Romney may not have orchestrated any of these ill-advised stunts, but they do come from his party...
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'Comment culture' fuels political-racial bias

Lauren DeLisa Coleman
OPINION - While looking at the comments and interviewing various experts in social behavior, I particularly learned that the new phenomenon of 'dis-inhibition' is exhibited over and over again in the digital arena...
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 02: Shonda Rhimes arrives at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards at San Francisco Marriott Marquis on June 2, 2012 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Araya Diaz/Getty Images for GLAAD)

Shonda Rhimes sounds off about lack of diversity on 'Bunheads'

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TV producer Shonda Rhimes recently tweeted about the lack of diversity on the new ABC Family show Bunheads...
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Study: Google searches reveal racial bias against Obama

Caryn Freeman
theGRIO REPORT - A Harvard University PhD candidate has conducted a study that may explain why polling data in political races with black candidates has been so unpredictable...
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A brief history of the n-word

James Braxton Peterson
OPINION - Once the n-word -- the epithet in either of its pronunciations -- enters into the public sphere, in any way, it is next to impossible to divorce it from the racialized history from which it originally emerged...
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Are Researchers Race-Baiting Black Childhood Obesity Tests?

Are black childhood obesity tests race-baited?

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FRUGIVORE - Why did more than half of the parents of white girls have a college degree and have more income, while less than one-quarter of the black girls’ parents had a degree?
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Iman accuses dept. stores of racism

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EBONY.COM - Fashion icon and supermodel Iman has recently voiced her concern for so-called "ethnic" make-up being placed at the back of stores.
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Education blogger fired, called Black Studies 'claptrap'

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Naomi Schaefer Riley, blogger for 'The Chronicle of Higher Education', recently parted ways with the site after outrage over an article she wrote last week titled...
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Anti-Obama ad may have darkened his complexion

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President Obama's complexion appears to be significantly darker in a recent Vets For a Strong American commercial...
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