Race

Young black girls do not always get to see representations of role models who look like them.

At the recent State of Race in America Symposium, Mayor of Baltimore Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, and others talk serious race issues.

In his book “The Black Presidency,” Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama’s identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race, and what can we learn from his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes?

This report is packed with recommendations on how newsrooms and journalists can dig deeper — and report more responsibly — when covering racial disparities in America.

Has America’s racial destiny been fulfilled with the election of the nation’s first black president?