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Are children color blind? What is the attitude of young children to skin color? And how did ti get that way? CNN takes a sobering in depth look.

It was the middle of the night. Something woke me out of a deep sleep. It was so dark my eyes were useless. But I could still hear. Somebody was moving. There was a gentle sound of bare feet t

Twenty-five slaves lived in three log and daub cabins on our tobacco farm. We had no windows but we didn’t need any. The walls were not solid. There were spaces between the slats that did nothing t

Well, my friends, the time has come Raise the roof and have some fun Throw away the work to be done Let the music play on Everbody sing, everybody dance Lose yourself in wild romance

AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO RUINED OUR OCEANS... With early plans to contain the spill being dubbed "The Top Hat" or "The Junk Shot," it's easy to imagine that the strategies were coming

ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND (SynergEbooks 2010) tells the improbable story of history’s first successful attempt to fly. According to Josiah Brantley, born a slave in Virginia, it wasn’t the Wright Brot

“It is a strange history. Its truth is stranger than fiction.” Frederick Douglass, 1853 “She used to dream of flying over fields and towns and rivers and mountains, looking down upon them ‘like

“ONCE UPON A TIME…” “I believe that one of the principal ways in which we acquire, hold and digest information is via narrative. So I hope you will understand when the remarks I make begin with wha

Stephen Colbert loves Glenn Beck. So much that he even bought his cologne, Patriot Tears. And as an avid fan, he couldn't help but notice that the Fox News host gone from calling himself a "Rodeo Clow

Keith Olbermann did not mince words Thursday night in naming Sarah Palin his "Worst Person in the World." While speaking outside Chicago this week, Palin mocked Rachel Maddow and MSNBC. Describing

SHE WON THE JOB OVER MORE THAN 15 OTHER APPLICANTS—TWO FORMER NFL PLAYERS, POP WARNER COACHES AND A RETIRED ARMY GENERAL. SHE EMPHASIZED ONE THING THOSE MEN DID NOT—HELPING THE PLAYERS IN THE CLASSRO

“YOU’RE COMING OF AGE IN A 24/7 MEDIA ENVIRONMENT THAT BOMBARDS US WITH ALL KINDS OF CONTENT AND EXPOSES US TO ALL KINDS OF ARGUMENTS, SOME OF WHICH DON’T RANK ALL THAT HIGH ON THE TRUTH METER. WE C

MS. MANDERSON HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO PEOPLE SAYING SHE COULD NOT DO WHAT SHE WANTED AND HAD LEARNED TO IGNORE THE NOT-SO-SUBTLE ADMONITIONS THAT PERHAPS HER AMBITIONS WERE TOO BIG, GIVEN HER DISABILI

HOW BASEBALL IS LIKE LIFE. A famous scene in the comic baseball movie “Major League II” came when fictitious Indians center fielder Willie Mays Hayes — played by Omar Epps — dashes home, where W

“If the debate is: ‘I don't like your programs,’ or ‘I don't like the philosophy of the judges you have the right to appoint,’ that's a very different conversation than ‘You are a tyrant subverting th

I’VE BEEN A COP FOR 52 YEARS AND I’M NOT SURE WHAT ‘REASONABLE SUSPICION’ MEANS.” “My guess is, “ the Sherriff said, “there will be several lawsuits raised and when the courts take a look at t

“I’M NOT GOING BACK TO ARIZONA AS LONG AS IT REMAINS A POLICE STATE, WHICH IS WHAT THE APPALLING ANTI-IMMIGRANT BILL THAT THE GOVERNOR SIGNED INTO LAW LAST WEEK TURNED INTO.” by LINDA GREENHOUSE

LONDON - British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life. Hawking claims in a new documentary that

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S ANDY SAMBERG AND GABOUREY SIDIBE FACE OFF IN COMPETITION, ONE ON ONE, MANO A MANO, TO SEE WHO WILL BE VICTORIOUS IN THE BATTLE OF PRECISION CHERRY SPITTING. And the winne

ANDERSON COOPER: “BUT I MEAN THE INFORMATION IS OUT THERE. IT HAS BEEN RELEASED. SOME PEOPLE DON’T BELIEVE IT BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THE MOON IS MADE OUT OF CHEESE.” Have y

A correspondent for New Left Media ventured out among the tea partiers during their tax day protests in Washington D.C. to interview them about what it is that's fueling their fierce opposition to to

Bill Hader made an appearance as James Carville last night on "Weekend Update," and had some fun at the Tea Baggers expense. Referring to their dispeasure with Obama poking fun at them, Carville prett

Rachel Maddow talks with Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson about the S.E.C. lawsuit against Goldman-Sachs and the ill-advised Republican opposition to financial reform.

AT FIRST I THOUGHT, “WOW! THIS IS MUCH MORE DIVERSE THAN THE RALLIES I’VE SEEN ON TELEVISION.” THEN I REALIZED THAT I WAS LOOKING AT STADIUM WORKERS. I SHOULD HAVE FIGURED IT OUT WHEN THE GREETER A

“I AM NOT A PUPPET MASTER. I CAN’T PULL STRINGS AND MAKE THEM PERFORM,” SAID ONE MIAMI-DADE TEACHER. “I CAN’T EVEN MAKE THEM COME TO SCHOOL.” MIAMI — Gov. Charlie Crist has been jawboned and bu