• Correspondents say the dispute over its voter ID law has taken on a high profile amid a tight White House race.

    BBC: Judge blocks Pennsylvania voter ID law before election

  • Media reports have described Clinton as frustrated that Gore has not asked for his advice or help in an extremely close White House race against Republican rival George W. Bush.

    CNN: Both sides deny existence of rift

  • Joe Andrew, who was Democratic National Committee chairman from 1999-2001, planned a news conference Thursday in his hometown of Indianapolis to urge other Hoosiers to support Obama in Tuesday's primary, perhaps the most important contest left in the White House race.

    NPR: Superdelegate Swings Vote from Clinton to Obama

  • But when the criminals and leaders are white men, race and gender become the elephant in the room.

    WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Those Courageous Racists

  • Some 93 percent of participants with white partners mentioned race during the guessing game, as opposed to just 64 percent who were playing the game with black partners.

    FORBES: The Case Against Racial Colorblindness in the Workplace

  • The bureau -- defining a minority as anyone who is not "single race white" and "not Hispanic" -- released estimates on Thursday showing that 50.4% of children younger than 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011, up from 49.5% from the 2010 Census taken in April 2010.

    CNN: Most U.S. children under 1 are minorities, Census says

  • After Vice President Dick Cheney personally intervened to persuade Pawlenty to stay out of the Senate race, the White House has stepped in with assistance in the tight, three-way race to replace Gov. Jesse Ventura.

    CNN: Bush campaigns to return Senate control to GOP

  • Rhythmic starbursts of green, white and yellow brushstrokes race across the horizontal canvas, punctuated by the silver-gray verticals of evenly spaced tree trunks.

    WSJ: Vincent Van Gogh Up Close | Philadelphia Museum of Art | A Matter of Perspective | By Jonathan Lopez

  • The two-year survival for hepatitis C was also lower for African Americans, although the rate for hepatitis B was similar for this race, white Americans and Hispanics.

    BBC: 'Race role in liver transplants'

  • How will the vice presidential running mates affect the race for the White House?

    CNN: Election 2000 overview: A lot is at stake for voters

  • According to the South African Institute of Race Relations, white per capita personal income is nearly eight times higher than that of black South Africans.

    BBC: South Africa: Does race matter in the 'rainbow nation'?

  • In the West more than a fifth of white children attended mixed-race schools, with at least 10% of students from three or more ethnic groups.

    ECONOMIST: Segregation and shopping

  • In the media race for the White House this year, there are two conversations going on--and one of them you can hear only in Spanish.

    FORBES: Feature

  • Yet, as President Obama and Governor Romney race for the White House, they have clashed over their energy plans, as the second presidential debate showed.

    FORBES: Which Candidate's Energy Plan is Better for America?

  • He had described Iowa as a must-win contest for him to continue in the 2004 race for the White House and just before the caucuses began, Gephardt predicted he would win.

    CNN: Gephardt formally bows out of Campaign 2004

  • In the race for the White House, President Barack Obama, a Democrat, has called attention to job cuts made by private equity firm Bain Capital, formerly run by Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

    FORBES: U.S. Factories Leaving China

  • "We've seen gang violence, we've seen crime, fights between Latinos and African-American students in the schools, " says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House.

    NPR: Uneasy Black-Latino Ties a Factor in Calif. Primary

  • But I wanted to ask, follow up on that with you, and just get your thoughts more broadly from your conversation with the President about whether he thinks the tone of the debate is the right one, whether it's befitting a race for the White House and if it's helpful to voters.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • With Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush supporting the administration's position on that issue, Yokich said the union would consider endorsing a third party candidate such as Nader, the longtime consumer crusader who made his name by taking on General Motors who is carrying the banner for the Green Party in this year's race for the White House.

    CNN: Autoworkers threaten to abandon Gore over China trade bill

  • In a country where 79% of the 50m-strong population are black, 9% white, another 9% coloured (mixed-race) and 3% of Indian or Asian descent, the still white-dominated but increasingly multiracial DA ended up doing rather well, increasing its support in every municipality it contested.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa and race

  • Now Mr McCain is turning against those Republicans who want to use race to appeal to white voters.

    ECONOMIST: John McCain heads south

  • Liverpool are now unbeaten in five Premier League clashes but are three points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur, who eased to a 2-0 victory over Fulham at White Hart Lane, in the race for the Champions League places.

    CNN: Gerrard returns but Liverpool draw

  • Striegel-Moore says one of the African-American women she studied who suffered from an eating disorder felt she had shamed her race by having a white woman's disease, but concern over appearance, the professor says, is only one contributing factor.

    NPR: Roundtable: Black Women and Body Image

  • Sotomayor's 2001 speech had similar overtones, as she conceded that white justices had made historic decisions on race and gender but emphasized that the attorneys who argued these decisions before the court were African-Americans and women.

    CNN: 'Latina woman' remark may dominate Sotomayor hearings

  • University officials give two plausible reasons for thinking that those who decline to state their race are most likely to be white or Asian.

    ECONOMIST: Californian higher education

  • But at the same time he doesn't want to be defined as the black candidate in the race, realizing the possibility that white voters would be turned off to that.

    NPR: Voting Blocs Shape Obama-Clinton Race

  • Its premier, Hernus Kriel, once served as police minister but came to shun the national arena in order to build support among the province's minority white population and the Coloured (mixed-race) voters who make up more than half its electorate.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa��s leaderless Nats

  • Conversations with advisers to several potential candidates suggest that the first reason for the slow ramp-up is a basic one: The coming campaign isn't for an open seat in the White House, but rather will be a race against an incumbent president.

    WSJ: Why Is the 2012 Race Off to Such a Slow Start?

  • The fact that the British did not see matters in black and white does not mean that they were indifferent to race.

    ECONOMIST: The British empire

  • It is also the worst bombing spree, outside of Cape Town, since one by white right wingers ahead of the first all-race elections in 1994.

    BBC: Mosque in Soweto

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