Race and Ethnicity

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

Caught in the WAVE Caught in the WAVE

A corporate antiviolence program targets students who don't fit in.

Nov 16, 2000 / Feature / Jane Spencer

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