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#ItsSoWhiteOutside is pretty funny. The East Coast is currently getting slammed with copious amounts of snow. Bad weather beat up the South earlier this week, too, which means that for large swaths of the country, it's really white outside. How white? According to Twitter: It's #sowhiteoutside that outside missed the beat:

20 people, all African American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using "brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on." One of them said "Now thats justice for Trayvon."

A nightmare came to life on board a public bus in Philadelphia back in July. Prosecutors showed security camera video in court showing passengers scrambling as men with guns open fire, according to myfoxphilly.com . Prosecutors say the shooting and violence triggered because of a phone call that a woman, Penny Champan, made after having words with someone on the bus. The video shows Chapman's boy running up and down the aisles by one of the seven cameras on board. Finally she grabs the child and spanks him. A man sitting behind her doesn't approve and he threatens to turn...

Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cell phone stolen and then the laughter. "They just said 'Oh, white girl bleeds a lot," said Perry, 22, who was attacked at Kilbourn Reservoir Park over the 4th of July holiday weekend. Though Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn noted Tuesday that crime is color blind, he called the Sunday night looting of a convenience store near the park and beatings of a group of people who had gone to the park disturbing, outrageous and...

If you need evidence that we are indeed in a post-racial America, I have it. In a conversation with Tom, a friend and business partner of mine, about his son, a teenager and gifted basketball athlete, the subject of what the boy wanted to be as an adult came up.  Tom's son answered that he wanted to be a Harlem Globetrotter. Talk about high aspirations.  In fact, too high...for a white kid! In a time when America has a black president, a white kid can't realistically dream of being a Harlem Globetrotter. Not to racially profile, but there is no...

the times Teens referred to juvenile probation, charged with battery, disorderly conduct Accusation over pudding prompts racial fights at VHS By Ken Kosky - ken.kosky@nwi.com, (219) 548-4354 | Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:05 am VALPARAISO | What started with a Hispanic student at Valparaiso High School reportedly uttering a racial slur while accusing a black student of stealing food from his cafeteria tray led to two fights Monday at the school, Valparaiso police said. Police said the Hispanic student was battered by two black students Monday morning and then was battered by two different black students and a white...

Police arrested Stephen Lyde, 21, today and charged him with aggravated assault in what Capt. Laurence D. Nodiff, commander of South Detective Division, called the "vicious" and "brutal" beating of a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic who was bicycling home from work during the May 30 near-riots on South Street. Nodiff said that Lyde was one of eight males who knocked the victim off his bike and "brutally beat him to unconsciousness," leaving him with skull, rib and facial fractures, and internal injuries. The victim was on life support at Hahnemann University Hospital for days, Nodiff said, and remains hospitalized in stable...

I don't mind admitting that I was misty-eyed as I watched Obama make his entrance. Although I like to think I'm reasonably grown-up about these things, it was a spectacle I wasn't sure I'd see in my lifetime. The speech itself seemed disappointingly short of poetry. But then I remember being deeply impressed with the oratory of George W. Bush's second inaugural, and look what happened to all those fine words. In these bleak times, there's something to be said for being business-like; Obama can leave the symbolism to other people, perhaps. The one moment I did love was when...

Benediction at Obama's inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: 'Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in the back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'...

From the red acarpet of Hollywood to the streets of downtown DC, the words "post-racial Anmerica" are being uttered. But are troubled race relations really a thing of the past in the US? Barack Obama led his campaign as if a post-racial era had already arrived, seldom speaking of race until the Reverend Wright scandal broke - his own pastor was revealed making anti-white and anti-American statements. This pushed the candidate to address the issue head-on, saying, "I have brothers, sisters, neices, nephews, uncles and cousins of every race, and every hue... Scattered across three continents. And for as long...