It was that coalition that rallied around Mayor Washington and that many thought could eventually heal the racial rifts in one of the nation's most segregated cities.

If we Hemingses and Jeffersons cannot heal the racial rift at the family level, what hope does this nation have?

The old racial rift has not been bridged, and this reality demands concentrated attention and debate, starting now.

Blacks and Jews in Conversation is a quiet judicial effort to use the courtroom as a neutral ground and the judge's status on the bench to mend racial rifts, particularly among schoolchildren.

In so doing, it has pointed to apparently new terrain in race relations in a city where racial rifts are driven not just by color, but by language and immigration as well.

The confrontational journalistic practices of Henry J. Hearsay and the States newspaper caused racial rifts in New Orleans.

Florida Democrats are moving to end the raw racial rift that threatens to cripple their party in this fall's elections and leave it weaker than at any point in more than a century.

In a city where racial rifts and ethnic pride run deep, DuSable, the black founding father, has long been tightly embraced, even with the gaps and mysteries in his biography.

His acute social conscience has prompted him, whenever and wherever possible, to emphasize the racial rift that runs the length of the musical like a fault line in an earthquake zone.

Maj. Michael Martin, 48, a member of the local sheriff's department, said he could not believe the racial rift was happening in his town.