The Great Black Hope The Great Black Hope
Taylor Branch concludes his staggering trilogy of the civil rights era with At Canaan's Edge, a relentlessly detailed narrative of Martin Luther King's desperate struggle to save t...
Mar 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gerald Early
The Color of Money The Color of Money
Four new books explore the politics, culture and racial awareness of the hip-hop generation.
Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate
A New Black Power A New Black Power
It's time to transform the two-party system into something more equitable by introducing smaller political groups based on special interests: Consider the power of a black voting b...
Feb 8, 2006 / Feature / Walter Mosley
The Value of a Number The Value of a Number
Racial tensions between black and Latino players have been exposed in the ongoing controversy over how to honor Roberto Clemente.
Feb 6, 2006 / Feature / Dave Zirin
The Race to War The Race to War
Lost Battalions tells the story of two US Army regiments of the American Expeditionary Force, the struggle to buy citizenship through the self-sacrifice of war.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Levering Lewis
Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King
The widows of great men either gracefully retire from history's stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband's work.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
What’s Race Got to Do With It? What’s Race Got to Do With It?
Socially conservative black churches may be ripe for exploitation by the Christian right on gay marriage. But that's only part of the story.
Jan 25, 2006 / Column / Gary Younge
Just Us Just Us
Three books examine American history through the scope of racism and racial identity.
Jan 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Oshinsky
Working-Class Hero Working-Class Hero
While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William P. Jones
Pandora’s Box Pandora’s Box
A deep planetary insecurity has fostered a rush to build boundaries around ourselves--psychic green zones--no matter how irrational, separating white from black or brown, Christian...
Jan 5, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams