President-elect Barack Obama's historic win is the source of much discussion overseas. Many Europeans hope that the election of an African American president in the US will spur their own countries to re-examine their own racial dynamics. Steven Erlanger, New York Times' Paris Bureau Chief, and author Mely Kiyak explain the phenomenon of "The Obama Effect."

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Comedians get away with making fun of them, public officials get called out for using them, but how many of us believe in them? Farai Chideya takes a closer look at racial stereotypes with professor R. L'Heureux Lewis and blogger Macon D.

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Organizers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial say former President Bill Clinton will help raise funds to complete the project planned for the National Mall.

A round table discussion on Erin Aubry Kaplan's controversial piece about the "assets" of our future first lady.

Al Qaeda’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, sought to dampen enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s election by saying that the “new face” of America only masked a “heart full of hate.”

Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

Many Europeans are asking themselves if there could be a French, British, German or Italian Obama.

Veteran civil rights activist Julian Bond will not seek another term as chairman of the NAACP's national board, saying the time is right to "let a new generation of leaders" take over.

I'm a black woman who never thought I'd see a powerful, beautiful female with a body like mine in the White House. Then I saw Michelle Obama -- and her booty!

A quintet with twin goals: to lift the presence of blacks and Hispanics in classical music and to expand the repertory for woodwind quintets.

As Barack Obama prepares to become America's first African-American president, writer Mark Oppenheimer discusses his recent article in Slate Magazine about how other minority groups see the possibility of one of their own becoming president.

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David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker, discusses Obama's debt to the "Moses generation" of American civil rights leaders — activists who made it possible for Obama to lead his own "Joshua generation."

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Study sponsored by AstraZeneca, maker of cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor, finds that millions more people could benefit from taking statin drugs even if they have low cholesterol because those drugs can significantly reduce risk of death from heart attacks and strokes; research involved 18,000 people worldwide and included women, blacks and Hispanics with no history of high cholesterol or histories of heart disease, but with high levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, or CRP, which in...

A mostly black congregation in Springfield, Mass., woke up the day after the election of Barack Obama with the joy of an elected black president and the sorrow to find out their church had been burnt down.

Police have documented a range of alleged hate crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack, since the election of Barack Obama.