In a sign of the times, the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to stop using “Negro” on census forms as one of the options for describing African-Americans. When the Census Bureau sends out its annual American Community Survey next year to more than 3.5 million households, the only option for black people will be “black” [...]
China Charges The U.S. With Racial Discrimination And Other Human Rights Violations
May 26, 2012 | Posted by
China on Friday responded to a recent U.S. government report on China’s human rights practices by issuing its own report on human rights issues in the United States. The “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011″ was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China’s Cabinet, in response to the “Country [...]
Mia Love The Uncommon Congressional Candidate; Black and Mormon
May 22, 2012 | Posted by
Mia Love is unlike any Congressional candidate ever — she is African-American, she is Mormon, and she is conservative. Republicans have deemed her race in Utah’s newly drawn 4th district one of the top ten most important races in the country, vowing to spare no expense to get her to Congress. If she wins, Love [...]
White Births Are Minority for 1st Time in U.S. History
May 17, 2012 | Posted by
Our country, settled by white Europeans and riddled with the troubled racial legacy of slavery, bitter civil rights battles and an awful anti-immigration stance, has reached a new milestone for the first time in its 235-year-old history: White births in the United States are no longer in the majority. According to US Census Bureau data, [...]
Black Southern Baptist Leader Rebukes Obama On Gay Marriage
May 11, 2012 | Posted by
A pastor who led the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a resolution in 2009 applauding the election of Barack Obama as America’s first African-American president termed the president’s May 9 endorsement of same-sex marriage a betrayal of the black church and an attack on the Christian faith. “America is now a candidate for the same [...]
Trouble for Obama: Voter Registration Drop for Blacks and Hispanics
May 6, 2012 | Posted by
The depressed state of the American economy has claimed yet another important victim: the voter registration rolls of blacks and Hispanics—two voting groups that will prove crucial to the re-election hopes of Barack Obama. A story in the Washington Post, using numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, revealed that the number of registered black and [...]
Black and Blonde: Scientists Uncover Blonde Gene in Solomon Islands
May 4, 2012 | Posted by
Scientists have finally figured out how some of the dark-skinned inhabitants of the Solomon Islands have naturally blonde hair. Researchers used to believe the blonde hair came from interaction with European people, however, a group from Stanford has detected a genetic difference in the blondes. They swabbed the cheeks of 85 people, 43 with blonde [...]
