Tap Roots Tap Roots
It's a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he's the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty
A Sorry Lott A Sorry Lott
Trent Lott has grudgingly relinquished his grip on the Senate majority leader post, but that doesn't mean that the Republican Party has purged "the spirit of Jefferson Davis" t...
Dec 23, 2002 / The Editors
Blind Sweeps Return Blind Sweeps Return
They say history repeats itself. But usually not quite so quickly.
Dec 23, 2002 / David Cole
Innocent Abroad Innocent Abroad
I went to a reception the other night to celebrate the efforts of a group called the Innocence Project, which provides legal assistance to prisoners for whom the technology of ...
Dec 23, 2002 / Joyce Maynard
The Incubator Returns! The Incubator Returns!
So onward into 2003 we go, amid INS roundups of Middle Easterners in Southern California and the grand hunt for Saddam's "material breaches," which could be a song out of Gilbe...
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Strange Fruit Strange Fruit
I have a friend who is the only black person living in his luxury cooperative building. A few years back, there was a get-to-know-your-neighbor party.
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
In Cold Type In Cold Type
Topic magazine is a kaleidoscopic new British literary review, still in its infancy and edited by a bunch of precocious Cambridge graduate students.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
‘Stakes Is High’ ‘Stakes Is High’
Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang
Russell Simmons’s Rap Russell Simmons’s Rap
Russell Simmons, known for decades as Rush to his friends, is of average height and build for a man his age (45), with a cleanshaven face, bald dome and light complexion.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Miles Marshall Lewis
National Security and Immigrant Rights National Security and Immigrant Rights
The debate over how to protect the United States from terrorism while safeguarding its guiding values rages with particular intensity in immigrant communities.
Dec 19, 2002 / Feature / Donald Kerwin