Op-Ed: "Worrying" About Interracial Children (Skanner)
After creating an imbroglio because he refused to perform a marriage ceremony for a White woman and a Black man, Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell resigned under pressure.

Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says (Yale University Office of Public Affairs)
When CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien was growing up, her mother in­structed her never to let anyone tell her that she wasn't black or Hispanic because of her mixed ethnic and racial heritage.

Ceara’s Season (Jackson Free Press)
Ceara Sturgis' home in Wesson, Miss., is filled with cookie jars. Ancient, smiling caricatures of 1950s-era "Campbell's Kids" join recent additions featuring the likeness of the M&M characters.

News Analysis: President Bush (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
One can't tune into a television news program these days without seeing an amiable President George W. Bush chumming it up with Capital Hill Democrats - even ones named Kennedy.

New York Production Listings (Backstage.com)
The following listings are NOT casting notices but are intended to provide the best general information available on current projects. The New York listings alternate between Broadway theater one week and film and television the next.

I-Team: Former Weatherman Accused of Stalking (KLAS Las Vegas)
A longtime Las Vegas television personality has been accused of telephone stalking. A local woman says she met former TV weatherman John Fredericks through an online dating service and things got weird soon after.

Racism Alive, Well Post-racial society declarations are premature, experts say, but seeds for it have been planted (Black Press USA)
(NNPA) - Something happened on Nov. 5, 2008, that forever changed race relations in the United States of America.

Guidelines for Racial Identification (Poynter Institute)
The use of racial identifiers in the media was for decades a means of singling out those who were not white. The practice helped form and fuel stereotypes and continues today to push a wedge between people.

Behar and Friends Talk Prejean, Maine (The Advocate)
Celebrity guests call out former Miss California Carrie Prejean's hypocrisy during the November 5 episode of The Joy Behar Show.

Broken window a racial crime? (The Plainfield Sun)
A teenage interracial relationship likely inspired a nasty pre-Halloween trick at a Plainfield family's home, police say.