‘Jena Is America’ ‘Jena Is America’
Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.
Sep 20, 2007 / Column / Gary Younge
The March on Jena The March on Jena
Thousands of civil rights activists are heading to Louisiana this week to protest a case of gross injustice--and the system that supports racial inequality across America.
Sep 17, 2007 / Feature / Mark Sorkin
Playing With Numbers Playing With Numbers
The Bush Administration's Civil Rights Commission would like us to believe that affirmative action harms black students by placing them in situations where they can't keep up.
Sep 13, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Skinhead Violence Rising in Russia Skinhead Violence Rising in Russia
Copying the tactics of terrorists, neo-Nazi groups are targeting reformers, progressives and ethnic minorities.
Aug 29, 2007 / Feature / Mark Ames and Alexander Zaitchik
Shouting Underwater Shouting Underwater
Two years ago, Katrina shed light on a harsh truth--we are all victims of a failed government.
Aug 23, 2007 / Feature / Walter Mosley
Sacco & Vanzetti Today Sacco & Vanzetti Today
History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Moshik Temkin
Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later
In the summer of 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey, and scores of other US cities exploded in racial violence. Forty years later, the impact is still palpable.
Jul 17, 2007 / Feature / Peter Dreier
Mourning in America Mourning in America
As the Supreme Court rules public schools cannot take voluntary action to overcome racial inequality, what's surprising is the lack of outcry.
Jul 12, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Racists & Robber Barons Racists & Robber Barons
Rather than build a unified culture in a diverse society, the conservative Gang of Five that now dominates the Supreme Court is polarizing the country.
Jul 12, 2007 / David Kirp
Zyklon B on the US Border Zyklon B on the US Border
A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
Jun 21, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn