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African Americans Back Burris

The African-American community's unified efforts to retain Roland Burris as the lone black U.S. senator has chastened national Democrats,… more

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Road Tripping Through Whitopia

Rich Benjamin set out to write about race‚ and wrote about class instead.

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Will Holder Hold Cops Accountable?

Eric Holder, the first African-American attorney general, takes over a Department of Justice (DOJ) that has been AWOL in… more

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Unequal Education

No Child Left Behind demands equal test scores from neighborhoods with unequal incomes and resources.

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GI Skinhead

An FBI report details white supremacists' recruitment of military personnel.

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Justice for Jon Burge’s Victims?

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald dominates the news these days for his arrest and probe of Illinois Gov. Rod… more

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To the Streets

The killing of Oscar Grant inspired a Bay Area movement now coming to terms with its own complexity.

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The Difference Between Hope and Change

A confession: I occasionally cry during romantic movies and History Channel documentaries. Another confession: I often pretend that I'm… more

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Contemplating King’s Legacy

Unlike every other American holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day has ideas of peace and social justice at its… more

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Obama Needs a Black Agenda

The first black president of the United States cannot credibly govern without a national black agenda. But don't depend… more

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Proud of Obama … For Now

Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Nov. 4. What was once a… more

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Are Long Lines the ‘New Poll Tax’?

Did Rachel Maddow mean to suggest racism in naming long polling place lines as "the new poll tax"? After… more

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Honest Abe and Honest Obe

Abraham Lincoln will rise again. At least that's what Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama would like you to believe.… more

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The View From Ohio

Will voters in the economically ravaged Buckeye State 'get over' race and support Obama?

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The Real McCain Revealed

Once Barack Obama emerged as a viable candidate for President – given the nation's grim history of violence toward… more

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An Exemplar of Reconciliation

Almost unnoticed, Imam W.D. Mohammed died of heart disease and diabetes on Sept. 9 in his modest home in… more

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Hope vs. Fear

One thing is certain: either Senator Barack Obama's race will prevent him from being elected president, or it won't.… more

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The War We Won’t Talk About

The war on drugs has gotten little traction during this presidential campaign. The last time it was even mentioned… more

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The Audacity of Rhetoric

In January, when the United States remembered the tragic death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., an urban… more

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Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill

Pro-life amendment used to derail legislation

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Countering Race With Class

In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the "us" and "them" are.… more

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Come on Cosby, Stop Hatin’

Cosby makes blanket indictments of an entire class of black people and offers only exhortations from the sidelines

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Hanging Hate

Backlash against the Jena Six case sparks an epidemic of public nooses

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Harold Washington Remembered

Washington's candidacy forged political unity among Chicago's notoriously fractious black community and helped bring the city's feuding Latino groups (including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) together

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Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right

Cosby's critics excoriated him for delivering his rant from an elitist ivory tower without offering solutions, arguing that the black poor are the helpless victims of white supremacy and institutional racism

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Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Race does matter in the caustic caldron of the post-Katrina era--the world still perceives us as "refugees"--permanently scarred victims to be forever adrift in tragedy

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Jena and the Post-Civil Rights Fallacy

Around the country, black males face a criminal justice system that incarcerates them more than eight times the rate of whites

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A Mother’s March For Justice

Jena Six mother Tina Jones talks about clearing the reputation of her son Bryant Purvis

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The Counterproductive War on Gangs

The conclusion of the report, "Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies," persuasively argues that punitive policies of policing that specifically target gangs increase rather than decrease gang violence

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A Dream Deferred

Only sustained community activism will reverse the Supreme Court's most recent betrayal of Brown v. Board of Education

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The Crafting of Obama

When Barack Obama launched his presidential bid, he decided to build a staircase, not merely a platform, thereby differing with most African-American presidential aspirants

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The Squandering of Obama

Political masterminds have transformed the candidate from a political visionary into an electoral product like every other presidential aspirant

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Stories of Survival

NO! explores rape within the African-American community and fights society's instinct to focus on the racism outside while turning a deaf ear to gender violence within

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Blaming Hip-Hop for Imus

Instead of blaming rappers for vulgarity, social resources should be channeled to combat the conditions that create those lyrics

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The United States of Amnesia

In America, historians are rarely heard from and seldom honored. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an exception to this rule.… more

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Slavery and the State of Denial

On Feb. 24, Virginia's state assembly voted unanimously to express "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery. Legislators… more

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Obamas Base: Broader Than Black

Black leaders, be wary. If you eschew the Obama phenomenon, you may have to pay a price. On Feb.… more

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Making Black Voices Heard

A new study examines minority youth opinion

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Mardi Gras Flame

Fear and fesitivity in New Orleans

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A Politically Correct Lexicon

Your 'how-to' guide to avoid offending anyone

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