RACE RELATIONS, 2003: WHERE AMERICA STANDS Richard Cohen Affirmative action impossible to justify By RICHARD COHEN The Washington Post Tuesday, January 21, 2003 In its cover story this week on affirmative action, Newsweek tells us that "fewer than 7%...

My only disappointment was the colour of the grass. If you've been to Vienna you may have noticed that the Blue Danube isn't blue at all, and neither is the Bluegrass Country of Kentucky. The scenery is handsome, and the grass is a...

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday called the failure of inner city schools "the great civil rights issue of our time."Taking questions at a music hall, Romney was asked whether he would be capable of improving race relations as president. He said his personal...

Where would New York be without its Nobel laureates? It’s crucial to the collective city ego that a majority of our living room mantels show off very gigantic prizes. Thankfully, the Istanbul-born novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose books are eccentric and intricate but immense best sellers,...

“The story of race at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st century is a story of conflicting viewpoints.” —Advisory Board to the President’s Initiative on Race In a 1995 Washington Post opinion poll, participants...