// // 0){ document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.width = requestedWidth + “px”; document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.margin = “0px 0px 10px 10px”; } // ]]>SAN DIEGO—Police at the University of California, San Diego, are investigating a noose that was found in a campus building in what may be the latest in a series of racially charged pranks.

From TheRoot.com: In 1998, when President Bill Clinton was allowing Cuban artists to travel relatively easily in and out of the United States, I invited a well-known Cuban visual artist to visit my graduate class at Columbia College in Chicago. I wanted her to show the students her work and talk a little about what […]

From Southernstudies.org: Right now, if you do a web search of the words “racism” and “USDA,” the majority of links will steer you to coverage of this week’s Shirley Sherrod affair, in which the African-American U.S. Department of Agriculture staffer based in Georgia resigned after a conservative website reversed the meaning of a speech she […]

Roland Martin appears in the CNN News Room with host Kyra Phillips, and American Morning co-host John Roberts. Martin, Phillips and Roberts discuss USDA official, Shirley Sherrod’s resignation, the NAACP’s statement and the video snippet that caused this controversy. WATCH: Video Snippet Cost USDA Official, Shirley Sherrod Her Job

Tea Party Spokesman Mark Williams talks about his controversial comments that mocked the NAACP. WATCH: Did Tea Party spokesman mock NAACP?

NEW ORLEANS — A white man accused of shooting and wounding three black men in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath has been charged with a federal hate crime.