Race and Ethnicity

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Fights Racism Against Obama AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Fights Racism Against Obama

Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO: 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.'

Oct 3, 2008 / YouTube

New Orleans Redraws Its Color Line New Orleans Redraws Its Color Line

After Katrina, white parishes are zoning minorities right out of the reconstruction.

Aug 27, 2008 / Feature / Lizzy Ratner

From King to Obama From King to Obama

Barack Obama stands on the shoulders of many as he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. One set of those shoulders belongs to Jesse Jackson.

Aug 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Cobble

Rebuilding New Orleans Rebuilding New Orleans

Activist Judith Browne-Dianis explains why progressives should care about public housing.

Aug 21, 2008 / GRITtv

Obama Nation Author Jerome Corsi’s Racist History Exposed Obama Nation Author Jerome Corsi’s Racist History Exposed

How a racist, conspiratorial crank became the Republican attack machine's anti-Obama point man.

Aug 20, 2008 / Feature / Max Blumenthal

From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama

Democrats have come a long way from the first Denver convention a century ago.

Aug 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols

Obama and the Sisters Obama and the Sisters

His convention speech should draw from the wisdom of black women activists who were the prophets of American democracy.

Aug 14, 2008 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Tested, Tried, Untrue Tested, Tried, Untrue

Critiques of Obama's suitability for the presidency are bookended by astonishingly contradictory stereotypes.

Aug 13, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Kai Wright Explains the Subprime Swindle Kai Wright Explains the Subprime Swindle

Nation magazine contributor Kai Wright discusses his July 14 article about the mortgage crisis and its effect on the black middle class.

Jul 10, 2008 / The Nation Video and Brett Story

Jesse Helms, American Bigot Jesse Helms, American Bigot

In death it's easy to dismiss Jesse Helms as a colorful buffoon or a relic of the bad old days of segregation and sexism, but that doesn't do his bigotry justice.

Jul 6, 2008 / Lisa Duggan

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