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LeRhonda S. Manigault.

Barack Obama tried to run a color-blind campaign, and he won. But don't believe the hype: an Obama victory doesn't mean an end to racism in our culture, or that we should blithely forget the history of racial injustice.

Kate Childs Graham.

Though the majority of Catholics reside in Latin America and Africa, the majority of Cardinals (the Pope pool) are European. Still, many are looking ahead to the first Pope of color.

Louis A. Ruprecht.

Powell and Obama share a perspective, born of an experience, that the rest of us should heed well: the deployment of religion in the cause of race- or other-baiting is an especially dangerous game.

Michael L. Hays.

Racism takes many forms, and the history of American racial prejudice is centuries-long. Is it naive to think that it does not play a role in the 2008 election?

Jonathan L. Walton.

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” illumines the hypocrisy of a nation unable to check and challenge itself concerning its own moral hubris.

Rev. Irene Monroe.

In the spirit of the Black Panthers or the Jewish Defense League, The Pink Pistols advocate guns for gays, shouting “Armed gays don’t get bashed” and “Pick on someone your own caliber.”

Rev. Irene Monroe.

When police brutally beat an African American transsexual the black media turns away. But homo- and transphobia in the media hurts the entire community...

Edward J. Blum.

Was Du Bois, leading African American intellectual and civil rights activist, an atheist?

Rev. Irene Monroe.

Can the jewel of black academia, the nation’s largest liberal arts college created to produce “exceptional black men,” continue to thrive while it fosters a deeply homophobic atmosphere?

Evan Derkacz.

By "celebrating" liberal victories years after they're even remotely controversial, the religious right rewrites itself into history's good book while continuing to play to the worst elements in our contemporary culture...

Jonathan L. Walton.

Obama supporters should "chill out" in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle...

Svend White.

This tempest in a teacup reminds me of some sharia controversies in contemporary Islamic societies...