Vice President Franco Frattini
European Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security
Opening remarks for the second EC - Israel Seminar on the fight against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism

Challenging the idea that racism education could be harmful to students, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin found the results of learning about historical racism are primarily positive. The study appears in the November/December issue of the journal Child Development.

The FBI is reviewing a white supremacist Web site (called american national socialist workers party) that purports to list the addresses of five of the six black teenagers accused of beating a white student in Jena and "essentially called for their lynching," an agency spokeswoman said Saturday.

As we age, our brains slowly shrink in volume and weight. This includes significant atrophy within the frontal lobes, the seat of executive functioning. Executive functions include planning, controlling, and inhibiting thought and behavior. In the aging population, an inability to inhibit unwanted thoughts and behavior causes several social behaviors and cognitions to go awry.

Things are gearing up for the rally in support of the Jena 6 Thursday. Thousands are expected in Jena, Louisiana and at rallies around the country. You can learn more about the event at freethejena6.com and Color of Change.

While certain expressions of racism are absent from our world today, you do not have to look very hard to know that more subtle forms of racism persist, in schools and workplaces and elsewhere. How do victims experience these more ambiguous racist messages" Are they less damaging than overt hostility" And what are the mental and emotional pathways by which these newer forms of discrimination actually cause personal harm"

Two Africans were attacked by right-wing extremists last weekend in Mainz, in western Germany, local authorities said on Saturday, the same night as a brutal mob assault on eight Indians in the country's former communist east.

Bill Pavelic Speaking Out and Exposing Racism and Racist Cops

Bookstore chain Borders says it has removed copies of a book about Tintin's adventures in Africa from the children's section of its US stores, as well as British outlets, amid allegations of racism.

The Tatar community in St. Petersburg says a young man who was murdered in early July was the victim of a racist attack. Damir Zainullin, a 23-year-old ethnic Tatar, was stabbed to death while on his way to work on July 1. He had graduated from St. Petersburg's Agricultural University the day before the attack, which took place in close proximity to a police station.

A new study finds that in areas where low-skilled jobs are predominantly held by whites, black men who live nearby are less likely to get hired.

Eduard Sardaryan will never forget the day last year when he was told his teenage son had been murdered by a group of youths on a suburban train. He touches a photograph, now edged with black ribbon, of a smiling Artur. He was 19 years old when he died.