Race and Ethnicity

Jump at de Sun Jump at de Sun

Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in N...

Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook

Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age

In October 1968, at the height of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, New York Mayor John Lindsay got heckled off the stage at a synagogue in Brooklyn.

Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael E. Staub

The ‘Quota’ Smokescreen The ‘Quota’ Smokescreen

George W.

Jan 23, 2003 / Lani Guinier

Cries of ‘Reverse Racism’ Ring Hollow Cries of ‘Reverse Racism’ Ring Hollow

Affirmative action, so long distorted by its critics, makes an easy political target.

Jan 22, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Who Killed Emmett Till? Who Killed Emmett Till?

The summer before 14-year-old Trent Lott entered all-white Pascagoula High School in Mississippi, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till convinced his mother to let...

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Holmberg and Rebecca Segall

Dixiecrats and the GOP Dixiecrats and the GOP

Why should anyone have been surprised that the senator who led the Republican Party of 2002 paid homage to the States Rights Party of 1948? Those Dixiecrats fatally extolled by...

Jan 9, 2003 / Diane McWhorter

An African-American Appeal for Peace An African-American Appeal for Peace

It's time to come up with a new notion of civil rights and peaceful negotiation.

Jan 9, 2003 / Feature / Walter Mosley

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

Sweet Soul Music Sweet Soul Music

As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-mus...

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

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

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