RACISM

The glass ceiling remains for women in the American media industry, despite growing numbers of female workers in the sector, a women's media organization said on Tuesday.

A former hospital director in Britain has been convicted of keeping an African woman as a slave in her London home for four years and ordered to pay her £25,000 in damages.

Jimmy Manyi, the spokesperson for the government of South Africa, has come under fire for perceived racialist comments he has made about the country’s mixed race people and about Indian immigrants.

South African police fired rubber bullets, live rounds and tear gas on Tuesday at demonstrators protesting against the government's delivery of basic housing and education.

Nationalising South Africa's mines is not the option, mines minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday in her strongest comments in a year against an idea that has unnerved investors in Africa's biggest economy.

For Esther Moloto, the 32-year-old owner of a little house on top of the world's biggest platinum reserves, the sound of progress is falling plaster.

The sixth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders, compiled by the University's Graduate School of Management, shows that men still hold roughly nine out of every 10 highest-paid management and board positions in 400 of California's largest public companies.

An Australian talent show skit based around late pop star Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 has backfired after U.S. guest star Harry Connick Jr called for an apology and viewers accused the program of racism.

South Africa's government on Thursday threatened to crack down on violent protests which erupted this week over jobs and living conditions, posing an early challenge to President Jacob Zuma.

The following is the full prepared statement of President Obama's speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2009 as presented by the White House, according to the Associated Press.

France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner criticized the United States Tuesday for boycotting a United Nations conference where Iran's president launched a verbal attack on Israel.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday of misusing a UN conference on racism at which he attacked Israel's policy toward the Palestinians as racist.

Following is the roster of countries attending or boycotting a U.N. conference on racism that opened in Geneva on Monday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a walkout from his speech to a U.N. racism summit on Monday when he accused Israel of racism against the Palestinians.

The United Nations’ anti-racism conference will open on May 20 at Geneva, its European headquarters. Concerns rise that it might spark high tension and fall into clashes once again.

Human rights groups said on Friday the United States and the European Union should take part in next week's U.N. conference on racism now that diplomats have removed the most contentious sections of the conference declaration.

Diplomats reached agreement on Friday on a declaration for next week's politically charged United Nations conference on racism, adding to the pressure on Washington and Brussels to decide whether to attend.

The United States on Tuesday held out the chance of attending a U.N. conference on racism in Geneva next week but said the final text must remove what Washington views as restrictions on freedom of speech.

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will attend next week's United Nations conference on racism in Geneva, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Eddy Curry's former limo driver accused the NBA Knicks center in a lawsuit, filing a porn-ready suit against him.

Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves! go the stirring words that open China's national anthem.