Unfriendly Skies Unfriendly Skies
The FAA, which had long ignored airlines' requests for help with unruly passengers, is now relying on those same airlines' apparent racial profiling when deciding who gets ...
Dec 20, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Oregon Rains on Ashcroft Oregon Rains on Ashcroft
The city of Portland is resisting calls from the Justice Department to racially profile its residents; predictably, right-wing pundits are enraged.
Dec 13, 2001 / David Sarasohn
Second-Class Postals Second-Class Postals
Anthrax scare reveals racial denial: workers on Capitol Hill are evacuated and given protective drugs while exposed postal workers, most of them black, are forgotten.
Nov 21, 2001 / Amy Alexander
Tulsa, 1921 Tulsa, 1921
On the 100th anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / The Editors and Walter F. White
Vieques Si! Yanqui No? Vieques Si! Yanqui No?
Puerto Ricans of all stripes question the Navy's presence there.
Aug 9, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?
There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Till Earth and Heaven Ring Till Earth and Heaven Ring
The NAACP is back, and it plans on being heard.
Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Open Letter to Left-Wing Magazines, Including Us Open Letter to Left-Wing Magazines, Including Us
The census makes clear about Latinos what many of us have known for a long time: The power of culture and character is now reinforced by demographics. From a small minority strugg...
Jun 28, 2001 / Earl Shorris
‘Violence’ in Cincinnati ‘Violence’ in Cincinnati
The urban rebellion in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood that followed the April 7 death of yet another black man, Timothy Thomas, at the hands of police shocked city resid...
May 31, 2001 / Thomas A. Dutton
Southern Explosure Southern Explosure
Thirty-eight years after the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, two of the four principals are dead, but the issues are still full of life. Thomas Blanton Jr. is ...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener