Read more race stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/364/race.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74481/iaaf-denies-it-okd-gold-medal-for-semenya.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe International Association of Athletics Foundation is denying claims by the South African government that it decided to allow runner Caster Semenya to keep her gold medal in the wake of questions about her gender. South African officials announced yesterday that Semenya has been cleared of "wrongdoing" and would be...http://www.newser.com/story/74481/iaaf-denies-it-okd-gold-medal-for-semenya.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 3:54:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73156/white-guy-runs-maine-chapter-of-naacp.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe president of the NAACP doesn’t often go to Maine, the whitest state in the country. But recently Todd Jealous took the Washington Post to a state prison there, to meet his new favorite chapter—one comprised almost entirely of white convicts. It’s run by Billy Flynn, who’s doing 28-to-life...http://www.newser.com/story/73156/white-guy-runs-maine-chapter-of-naacp.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 9:18:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71622/robinson-now-a-gop-hero-hated-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhoops. The RNC’s new “GOP Heroes” website devotes a page to baseball legend Jackie Robinson, declaring him a “great Republican” who campaigned for Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. There’s just one problem: Robinson was a registered independent who professed he’d “never identified with one party or another,” and condemned the...http://www.newser.com/story/71622/robinson-now-a-gop-hero-hated-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 9:40:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70507/berlusconi-adds-michelle-to-his-tan-obama-dig.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDaffy Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi thought his first joke about President Obama being "tan" was so funny he repeated it —and this time included Michelle in the fun. "I bring greetings from a man, what's his name? Some tanned guy—Barack Obama," Berlusconi said at a rally after returning...http://www.newser.com/story/70507/berlusconi-adds-michelle-to-his-tan-obama-dig.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 2:35:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69847/sorry-jimmy-race-aint-the-only-card-in-the-deck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJimmy Carter and other Obama defenders playing the race card must remember that it’s just one in a deck that’s driving the I’ve-had-it-up-to-here rhetoric of Joe Wilson and Glenn Beck, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times . “There is a national conversation we must have right now—the one...http://www.newser.com/story/69847/sorry-jimmy-race-aint-the-only-card-in-the-deck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 10:31:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69798/obama-anger-not-about-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFear of "big changes" and hostility to the growth of government—not racism—are what's driving angry criticisms about his health care agenda, President Obama said in a series of network television interviews that will air tomorrow morning. "Are there people out there who don't like me because of race?...http://www.newser.com/story/69798/obama-anger-not-about-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Sep 2009 8:55:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69576/obama-disagrees-with-carter-on-racism-charge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSorry, Jimmy Carter: The White House doesn't think hostility toward President Obama is motivated by race, the Washington Post reports. “The president does not believe that the criticism comes based on the color of his skin,” said Robert Gibbs. Carter started a firestorm by asserting just that—the fervent anti-Obama...http://www.newser.com/story/69576/obama-disagrees-with-carter-on-racism-charge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 14:59:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69359/with-race-in-play-obamas-white-support-softens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama’s downward opinion-poll trajectory among whites seems to be linked to the “blackening” of his image, writes Joan Walsh in Salon. It accelerated during two racially charged moments this summer: Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, marked with debate over her “wise Latina” comment, and the Henry Louis...http://www.newser.com/story/69359/with-race-in-play-obamas-white-support-softens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 14 Sep 2009 12:15:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69287/wilson-i-am-not-going-to-apologize-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagResponding to threats by Democrats demanding he apologize to President Obama on the House floor, Rep. Joe Wilson was adamant today: “I am not going to apologize again.” The South Carolina Republican told Fox News Sunday, “I apologized to the president on Wednesday night. I believe that is sufficient. The...http://www.newser.com/story/69287/wilson-i-am-not-going-to-apologize-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 9:15:00 CDT