A project announced by the N.A.A.C.P. and lawyer Cyrus Mehri aims to increase the number of black workers on Madison Avenue.

The idea that job discrimination will be eliminated by competition is not consistent with experiments suggesting that such bias in labor markets remains widespread.

Mr. Ultang won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for photography for documenting an egregious, seemingly racially motivated assault on the field during a football game.

A lawyer for the maker of Bratz dolls said that he had sought a mistrial because of an ethnic slur made by a juror who has been dismissed from the copyright infringement case brought by Mattel.

Don Imus waded into racially treacherous waters again on his new radio program in a brief exchange about a suspended professional football player, Adam Jones.

Mr. Johnson was the first black reporter at Newsday and later, at The New York Times, one of the first black journalists to work as a foreign correspondent for a major daily newspaper.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had accused the restaurant of “severe and pervasive” harassment of female, black and Hispanic employees.

How Tyra Banks turned herself — fiercely — into a brand.

Among the millions of clips on the video-sharing Web site YouTube are 11 racially offensive Warner Brothers cartoons that have not been shown in an authorized release since 1968.