According to the New York Times, authorities in southern New Jersey have arrested a 16-year-old boy for activating a public-address system at a Wal-Mart store last week and ordering “all black people” to leave. The boy, from Atlantic County, was charged by Gloucester County authorities with bias and intimidation and harassment in connection with the […]

Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, has apologized for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”