Henry Louis Gates, likely America's most famous academic of African-American descent, was arrested by police on Saturday. He had locked himself out of his home when a neighbor reported the sight of a black man breaking into a house.

The Texas Democratic Party is asking Republican Representative Betty Brown to apologize after she suggested Asians change their names to ones that are "easier for Americans to deal with."

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says America is a "nation of cowards" when it comes to discussing racial issues. The first African-American Attorney General added: "If we're going to ever make progress, we're going to have to have the guts, we have to have the determination, to be honest with each other."

Spain is in danger of losing possible bids for the 2012 Olympics and 2014 World Cup due to racist behavior by its sports fans.

Oops, you're racist.

Newsweek magazine gets into the hype about " the black-brown divide" and its possible impact on this year's presidential race.

BET adds to the hype surrounding "brown on black" violence with their new documentary, Brown on Black.

A CNN report on a law enforcement investigation of a Los Angeles gang (Latino) hypes racial murders (of blacks) for 17 paragraphs before quoting a criminologist with the University of California, Irvine, who points out that "racially motivated gang killings are an exception." According to the academic: "You don't see these major black-brown wars, either within the context of gangs or outside the context of gangs."

Hello Kitty contact lenses. They look as creepy as they sound.

The Los Angeles Times takes a long look at competition between African-Americans and Latino immigrants in Atlanta, Georgia's day labor market: "The black laborers speak of their Latino competitors with a mix of resentment, resignation and tolerance... [b]ut they also suspect that some old, familiar prejudices are energizing the anti-illegal-immigrant movement."