Do White People Think Black People Are Magic?
Last week, media reported on a psychological study suggesting that white people are predisposed to…
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Can Anti-Mormon Prejudice be Compared to Anti-Black Racism?
Keeping it all in perspective as the presidential race gets hotter.
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Muslim Students Shocked By Professor’s Column
An NYU professor suggests in Forbes that we refer to tragedies like the one at Ft. Hood as “Going Muslim.” An NYU alumnus, himself a Muslim, finds himself shocked, not so much by the article, as by the response of the school administration.
Read MoreHagee Hangs On
After his highly publicized break with McCain, John Hagee retains powerful friends.
Read MoreUpdated: Response to the New York Times on Islam
In a recent Times Op-Ed neoconservative Edward Luttwak labeled Barack Obama “an apostate from Islam,” and that “would cause… complications in our dealings with the Islamic world,”
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The Kremlin and the Church: Russia’s Holy Alliance
In the new Russia, where Putin attends Easter services in the capital’s main cathedral, it seems the era of religious repression is over—except if you are a Protestant.
Read MoreCan a Morehouse College Man be Openly Gay?
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?
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RDPulpit: To the ‘Furiously Raging’ Religious Right
Newsweek actually gets religion, writes the author of the recent gay marriage issue. It’s the Christian Right culture warriors who claim that God possesses their prejudices who are mistaken.
Read MoreOp-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy
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?
Read MorePatriot Pastors Cited for Sedition
Arab is the new German; in this long, long war suspicion is raised against Arab-Americans when Muslims are profiled as potential terrorists…
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