In recent weeks, we’ve watched a debate emerge over teaching about race in schools from grade school to college. Fueled by misunderstanding and emotion, there is evidence this debate was contrived to ...

CHRISTIANSBURG — Continuing racial gaps in specific areas of Montgomery County’s education and policing were the topics Saturday as the long-running Dialogue on Race held its Winter Summit. More than ...

This is what is likely to come of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home by a white police officer: nothing. The July 16 arrest of the African American scholar by a Cambridge, Mass., police ...

Colors is a frank discussion about race. Join JJ Green, who is black and guests of different racial backgrounds as they discuss the challenges the nation faces as it struggles to heal and make ...

IN HIS LATEST book, "The Anatomy of Racial Inequality," prominent black intellectual Glenn Loury makes pointed reference to the inclination of whites to regard blacks as being too race conscious: ...

(The Root) — The question for this week’s column comes, loosely, from Slate’s William Saletan, who asked me to throw some ideas around with him as he composed a list of tips for “how to talk ...

“It’s damn easy to assume stuff about the world, history, other people. What is hard to do — and to accept — is listen to other people’s realities.” Nicolette Bethel encourages dialogue on the topic ...