Racial Equality: Articles

Apr 08 2011

Answering the Call with Feet of Clay

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Apr-08-2011
Monday, April 4, 2011 marked the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s tragic death. Cut down in his prime by an assassin's ...
Jan 18 2010

Race, Reid, and the American Public

By Brad Bradley | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Jan-18-2010
Are Americans capable of having honest dialogue on the issue of race? President Obama discussed the issue during his campaign. He went to ...
Sep 22 2009

Racism and the President

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Sep-22-2009
By the USA Today Editorial Staff Two things were inevitable when America elected its first black president: One is that racists would ...
Sep 18 2009

Sorry, Democrats, Racism Isn’t Everywhere

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Sep-18-2009
By Michael Meyers,  New York Daily News When a President's prime-time speech is interrupted by a congressman with the accusation of ...
Sep 17 2009

The Toxic Card of Racism Trumps Hearts

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Sep-17-2009
By Elizabeth Scalia,  First Things A few months ago, during the Obama-at-Notre Dame controversy, I had a conversation with a journalist, ...
Aug 04 2009

Sotomayor, Gates And Race

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Aug-04-2009
By Stuart Taylor,  National Journal Soon-to-be-Justice Sonia Sotomayor has called herself "a product of affirmative action" who was "accepted rather readily ...
Jul 31 2009

Stop the Racial Score-Settling

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Jul-31-2009
By E.J. Dionne Jr.,  Washington Post The problem with "teachable moments" is that the term sets up one group of people ...
Jul 24 2009

The CJS Symposium #3

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Audio, Multimedia | Jul-24-2009
Zachary Gappa and Erica Wanis talk about health care, Walter Cronkite, and affirmative action.
Jul 24 2009

The Depressing Cycle of Racial Accusation

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Jul-24-2009
By Richard Thompson Ford,  Slate As many of us learned early this week, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the eminent Harvard scholar ...
Jul 15 2009

A Personal Inequity

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Jul-15-2009
By Thomas Sowell,  National Review Sometimes, when I hear about “disparities” and “inequities,” I think of a disparity that applied directly ...

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