Tag: Race

Gov. Rick Snyder speaks during the Mackinac Policy Conference, Thursday, May 29, 2014 on Mackinac Island, Mich. Snyder is urging legislators to consider updating Michigan's civil rights law to prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity. (AP Photo/David Eggert)

Michigan mulls update to gay discrimination law

David Eggert · May 29, 2014 11:21 pm

Google steps up efforts for more racial diversity

MARTHA MENDOZAMICHAEL LIEDTKE · May 29, 2014 10:09 pm

Google says workforce mostly white, male

Martha Mendoza · May 29, 2014 5:34 pm

Planned Parenthood has covered up statutory rape and sex trafficking while promoting racism and misinformation, according to a newly released report. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Report: Racism, sex-trafficking, statutory rape condoned at Planned Parenthood facilities

Ashe Schow · May 28, 2014 8:04 pm

Oregon Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby, talks to supporter Marvin Hausman in Lake Oswego, Ore., on March 19, 2014. Wehby has come under personal attack fromÃÂ incumbent Democrat Jeff Merkley.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper)

Democrats’ approach to civil rights has gone through the looking glass

Noemie Emery · May 27, 2014 10:10 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2014 file photo, actress Lena Dunham attends "Howard Stern's Birthday Bash," presented by SiriusXM, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. From Wednesday, May 28, 2014 to Saturday, tens of thousands of publishers, authors, agents and librarians will meet at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York for a convention predominantly organized by whites, spotlighting books predominantly written, edited and published by whites. Tavis Smiley is the only non-white among the 15 scheduled marquee author speakers, who also include Dunham and Anjelica Huston. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

Diversity an issue as book convention opens

Hillel Italie · May 27, 2014 7:44 pm

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk down the stairs of Air Force One. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Beltway Confidential

On Obama, ‘Take Back Our Country’ and accusations of racism

Byron York · May 27, 2014 1:12 pm

Spain village votes to change its ‘Kill Jews’ name

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2014 10:30 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Obama Interior Department reviving a truly bad policy Congress has rejected

Michael Barone · May 24, 2014 7:30 pm

Half the U.S. Senate urged NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to change the Washington Redskins' name, saying it is a racist slur and the time is ripe to replace it. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

50 senators to NFL: Change Redskins’ racist name

Alan Fram · May 23, 2014 1:35 pm

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White people are playing the race card, too

Larry Elder · May 22, 2014 2:49 pm

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

CFPB misses diversity mark, outside consultant says

Richard Pollock · May 22, 2014 11:30 am