<div id="subtitle">Black Harvard scholar Gates says he'll have a beer with Obama, white cop, wants to 'move on'</div><div><p>Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to ...

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama backed down on Friday from a statement that police had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black scholar in a racially charged case that was rapidly becoming a distraction for Obama.</p><p>The president made a surprise appearance in the White House press briefing room ...

<div><p>CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police union officials on Friday rallied around the white officer whose arrest of a prominent black scholar sparked a heated debate on race relations in the United States.</p><p>On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama criticized the Cambridge Police Department's actions after Sgt. James ...