Cullen Jones made history today as one of four men on the USA’s winning 4X100 freestyle relay team. They took the Gold with a world record time of 3 minutes, 8.24 seconds in an edge of your seat race that keeps swimmer Michael Phelps on track to bring eight medals home. Cullen Jones might be considered a bit of an unexpected swimming superstar. You see during one of his first experiences in water, he almost drowned. But that was a long time ago. And now as only the third black …

Well it’s Wednesday, which means another sports journalist has been suspended for lacking the most basic understanding of historic atrocities and their present day reverberations.

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Basketball star Lebron James will grace Vogue’s April cover. He’s only the third man to ever do so.
Here it is:

What the hell??!??
Can you just imagine the impact on unsuspecting passersby of dozens of these magazines on display side by side? A casual glance could easily leave you with an impression that the nice, fresh faced, young lady in the photo was in some kind of a physical struggle. It kind of looks like Gisele Bundchen is …

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For the third time I mixed it up with two other bloggers on NPR’s “News and Notes” program. Earlier today, host Farai Chideya put us through our paces discussing: the latest primary results, NAS nonsense and the role of language in the current rough and tumble political campaign. Are we being oversensitive?
On deck as well were insightful (and witty) bloggers DJ Black Adam …

Contributor Andrew Padula has been in situations throughout his life where he has felt compelled to address racial issues from his unusual perspective. Andrew is a white, politically conservative, blues musician who has been teaching and touring the U.S. and Europe since 1993. He can be seen with blues legend Bobby Parker on B.E.T. Jazz Central as well as on Carlos Santana’s recent DVD release “Montreux Blues Summit”. His point of view adds plenty to our discussion, so I welcome Andrew and his column The Topsoil to Allaboutrace.com. As Andrew …

I imagine this place, All About Race.com, to be a spot where we can open our hearts and speak our minds to each other in ways that would be downright impossible in the whir of day-to-day life.
So I am asking for you input, in all sincerity:

What were they thinking?
I don’t understand it.
Seriously. If you find Golfweek Magazine’s choice to feature a noose on its cover, with the verbage ‘Caught in a noose Tilghman slips up and the Golf Channel can’t wriggle free,’ anything less than a big “F-CK …

The Golf Channel has taken the appropriate step of suspending Kelly Tilghman for two weeks following her on air remarks.
Nick Faldo’s co-host on the Golf Channel’s coverage of the US Tour has been suspended for two weeks following a remark she made about Tiger Woods.
Kelly Tilghman and European Ryder Cup captain Faldo were talking on air during the Mercedes-Benz Championship about how young players might challenge the world number one.
Faldo said: “We just have to gang up on him”, and Tilghman added: “Lynch him in a back alley.”
The Golf Channel …

That’s the headline that flashed across AOL yesterday afternoon as I was checking my personal email account. Turns out that Golf Channel PGA Tour announcer, Kelly Tilghman made this repugnant comment during Friday’s telecast of the PGA Tour’s opening event. She said, on air, that in order to win:
…today’s young players should lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley.
Source
Despite excuses made by Tilghman apologists in the many comment threads that followed AOL’s FanHouse report, Tilghman’s comment was outrageous, not a “slip of the tongue” not just something “you wish …

I awoke ready to fuss at the venerable Southern Christian Leadership Conference for planning to honor alleged dog fighter, Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick. But, they saw the light and reversed course.