Racism and Discrimination

Return of the White-ist Return of the White-ist

Not that you missed him while he was gone, but David Duke is back.

Aug 5, 2004 / Feature / Leonard Zeskind

Identity Politics Identity Politics

While controversy rages across the country over whether computerized voting machines may result in lost or manipulated votes, there is another change in the election system this ...

Jul 29, 2004 / Feature / Tova Andrea Wang

Ralph Reed’s Gamble Ralph Reed’s Gamble

When Ralph Reed was the boyish director of the Christian Coalition, he made opposition to gambling a major plank in his "family values" agenda, calling gambling "a cancer on the ...

Jun 24, 2004 / Jack Newfield

By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary

In June 1965 James Farmer, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and longtime champion of Gandhian nonviolence, arrived in Bogalusa, Louisiana, to support a desegregat...

Jun 17, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mike Marqusee

The Soros Slander Campaign Continues The Soros Slander Campaign Continues

We return this week to the conservative crusade to destroy the reputation of financier and philanthropist George Soros.

Jun 17, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Fear of a Brown Planet Fear of a Brown Planet

A wave of minority politics is cresting in California--white minority politics.

Jun 10, 2004 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

A Nation of WASPs? A Nation of WASPs?

A Nation of WASPs?

May 13, 2004 / Earl Shorris

‘We Better Do Something’: Toni Morrison and Cornel West in Conversation

‘We Better Do Something’: Toni Morrison and Cornel West in Conversation ‘We Better Do Something’: Toni Morrison and Cornel West in Conversation

In 1993 the Nobel Prize-winning author and the Princeton professor sat down to discuss blues, love, and politics.

May 6, 2004 / Feature / Toni Morrison and Cornel West

Homophobia of All Hues Homophobia of All Hues

The marriage-equality movement confronts anti-gay sentiment among blacks.

Apr 29, 2004 / Feature / Christopher Lisotta

Vanishing Votes Vanishing Votes

On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb.

Apr 29, 2004 / Greg Palast

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