The Black Box The Black Box
OK, no Lifelines, no 50-50s, no Audience Participation if you want to be a millionaire: Name the first great African-American sitcom of the New Millennium... Correct! The 2000 pre...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
He Has a Dream He Has a Dream
The grand ambition of the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Mar 30, 2001 / Feature / Scott Sherman
The Black-White Wealth Gap The Black-White Wealth Gap
Net worth, more than any other statistic, shows the depth of racial inequality.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Dalton Conley
Soul to Seoul Soul to Seoul
In our retrograde era, "the personal is political" might better be put "politics sure messes up progressive lives." This past December, just after the Supreme Court completed the...
Feb 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo
Florida’s ‘Disappeared Voters’: Disfranchised by the GOP Florida’s ‘Disappeared Voters’: Disfranchised by the GOP
Thousands of citizens can't register or have been wrongly thrown off the rolls.
Jan 18, 2001 / Feature / Greg Palast
Bush’s Black Faces Bush’s Black Faces
Many of George Bush's supporters say that his recent nominations of Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice as National Security Adviser and Rod Paige as Secretary o...
Jan 11, 2001 / Michael Eric Dyson
Marital Color Line Marital Color Line
On November 7, voters in Alabama erased from that state's Constitution a provision dating from 1901 that declared that "the legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or l...
Dec 7, 2000 / Randall Kennedy
Back to the Back of the Bus Back to the Back of the Bus
Montgomery's transit system isn't segregated anymore. It barely exists.
Dec 7, 2000 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski
The Unscanned Majority The Unscanned Majority
Amid all the partisan sniping, talking-head screeching and judicial decisions, there are two indisputable facts that go far toward explaining the true tragedy of the Florida reco...
Dec 7, 2000 / David Corn
After the Renaissance After the Renaissance
A quarter-million people thronged Abraham Lincoln's Memorial that day. In the sweltering August humidity, executive secretary Roy Wilkins gravely announced that Dr. William Edwar...
Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Brown