by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 27, 2006 | Opinion
When I was in my mid-20s, I decided to spend a spring weekend in the Big Apple. I was a young Latino man with shoulder length hair. I wore my hair in a bright red bandana (which I still own). At the time, my only earthly possession was a fairly new red sports car with...
by Brian Kaylor | Nov 1, 2005 | News
A black conservative columnist said recently on a radio show that God used slavery to give African-Americans a better life today. The comment went unchallenged by a conservative commentator whose television program airs on a network owned by the Southern Baptist...
by Andy Watts | Oct 11, 2005 | Opinion
Tennessee lawmaker Stacey Campfield, one of Knoxville’s white state representatives, has shown, once again, that whites do not understand racism. Campfield, who last month compared the Black Legislative Caucus to the KKK, recently clarified his statement to...
by Bob Allen | Sep 30, 2005 | News
Former Reagan administration education secretary Bill Bennett refused to back down from comments widely criticized as racist. Bennett, a popular social commentator with the religious right, questioned accuracy of a study that suggested legal abortion had reduced the...
by Daniel Goodman | Sep 20, 2005 | Opinion
“It is interesting at great political rallies how you have a Protestant to pray and a Catholic to pray, and then you have a Jew to pray. With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew. For how in the world...