Race and Ethnicity

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

‘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

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

Lott Should Resign Lott Should Resign

Among the obscenities accumulating in the political atmosphere, the most disgusting may be Trent Lott.

Dec 12, 2002 / The Editors

Reasons for Doubt Reasons for Doubt

When I was in college, I joined a court-watching project in Roxbury, Massachusetts. We observed criminal trials, then interviewed judges, lawyers and witnesses.

Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Censorship 101 Censorship 101

Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade's earnest debates over "political correctness" are over, replaced by ro...

Dec 5, 2002 / Bruce Shapiro

Legal Victory for Airport Screeners Legal Victory for Airport Screeners

A federal judge hands nine workers an unexpected victory in their battle against a law requiring citizenship for all airport screeners.

Dec 3, 2002 / Feature / Michael Flaherty

Blacks and the Democratic Party Blacks and the Democratic Party

Voters felt devalued and heard no message, so many of them stayed home.

Nov 26, 2002 / Feature / Ron Walters

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