Benjamin Mays Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays--devout Christian minister, uncompromising advocate for justice, career educator and longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta--was called the "Sc...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Roger Wilkins
Diversity Over Justice Diversity Over Justice
Eric Foner was an expert witness in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan law school case.
Jun 26, 2003 / Eric Foner
Affirmative Action Lives Affirmative Action Lives
In one of its most important cases in decades, the Supreme Court on June 23 upheld the prerogative of colleges and universities to give preferences to members of minority group...
Jun 26, 2003 / The Editors
Forgetting to Laugh Forgetting to Laugh
Of all the columns I've written, never have I gotten more mail than for the following sentence: "It will not matter that the Dixie Chicks play to full, cheering houses, while t...
May 22, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Driving While Immigrant Driving While Immigrant
Emboldened by the "success" of its preventive war in Iraq, the Bush Administration appears to be expanding its preventive law-enforcement strategy at home.
Apr 24, 2003 / David Cole
‘Anti-Semitism,’ Israel and the Left ‘Anti-Semitism,’ Israel and the Left
Who's really behind the crude equation between Israel and "the Jews"?
Apr 17, 2003 / Feature / Philip Green
Democracy Tested Democracy Tested
The US military was deployed, the Bush Administration tells us, to bring democracy to Iraq. But the military brass and the Administration have apparently parted company on what...
Apr 17, 2003 / Lani Guinier
Diversity and Its Malcontents Diversity and Its Malcontents
David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Assault on Diversity Assault on Diversity
On April 1 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases on whether to overturn the 1978 Bakke decision and ban consideration ...
Mar 31, 2003 / Feature / Alfred Ross and Lee Cokorinos
On White Preferences On White Preferences
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases on April 1.
Mar 27, 2003 / Jay Rosner