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