Shirley Sherrod

• Race issue haunts Obama again

  With a black President, in the White House, can race issues be far behind? A new controversy for Barack Obama over the Shirley Sherrod episode brings the spotlight on the colour of Obama's officials - the question being asked: Is Barack Obama's White House too white? That's what the NYT's columnist Maureen Dowd says.This accusation has been caused ...

• At the White House, losing a game of phone tag

  The White House switchboard -- able to conjure up Santa Claus at a moment's notice for a young Caroline Kennedy -- is famous for its ability to track down anyone, anywhere, anytime. But last week, both the White House and the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, were unable to muster that switchboard magic to reach Shirley Sherrod, the Department...

• President Obama and the race issue

  It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama  plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University  professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...

• Shirley Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama

  Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday -- from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. (Buzz on Twitter)Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin...