Beleaguered celebrity chef Paula Deen struggled to hold back tears Saturday as she received a warm welcome from the crowd during an appearance at a Houston cooking show, the Associated Press reports. Saturday’s event was Deen’s first public appearance since June when it was revealed that in an earlier legal deposition she acknowledged using racial…

The Miami Heat’s LeBron James on Saturday married fiancee Savannah Brinson at San Diego’s posh Grand Del Mar Hotel, according to the Associated Press. About 200 guests were present for the ceremony, said one of the people, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because the wedding was private and the couple had yet to…

(The Root) — In 1988, not long after civil rights lawyer, and Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder, Morris Dees won a case against the Ku Klux Klan that bankrupted one of the hate group’s major arms, Dees took the podium at a national NAACP gathering. He talked about 19-year-old Michael Donald’s 1981 death at the…

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently recounted the harrowing story of losing her childhood friend in the racial attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., when she was just 8 years old, Reuters reports. “As an 8-year-old, you don’t think about terror of this kind,” said Rice, who recounted on Friday…

Brentin Mock writes at Colorlines that this year congressional leaders are likely to restore protections to the Voting Rights Act, which was gutted by the Supreme Court this summer. The speculation comes amid a series of hearings, meetings and verbal commitments from congressional members and civic leaders, he writes. A few weeks ago Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a…

In a piece at the Huffington Post, Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes that the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four little girls 50 years ago in Birmingham, Ala., was just another example on a long list of “racist terror attacks that included beatings, shootings, mob attacks, ambushes and, of course, bombings.” It should never…

Clothing represented the only pop of color on the runways during New York City’s Fashion Week, Karen Grisby Bates writes at NPR. She says it’s time to end longstanding racial discrimination on the fashion industry’s runways. That lack of diversity has been a perennial problem in the fashion industry — at home and abroad —…

Fulvio Bressan, a sixth-generation Italian winemaker, faces a boycott of his business after posting a racist rant on Facebook on Aug. 22 about Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black government minister, according to the Huffington Post. Though Kyenge, an outspoken advocate of looser immigration laws, has been a frequent target of racist public incidents in recent months, Bressan’s note was particularly abusive.…

Fox 8 is reporting that New Orleans law enforcement authorities have released a video that captured the shooting of an unarmed black man by police as they entered his home last year during a botched drug raid. Former New Orleans police officer Joshua Colclough was sentenced to four years in prison last month in the…