Racism and Discrimination

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

Indian Country, NY Indian Country, NY

A land-claim suit is pitting Oneidas against other upstate residents.

Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Beverly Gage

A DNA Balance Sheet A DNA Balance Sheet

DNA testing can convict the guilty; it can also destroy the privacy of millions.

Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman

Just a Needle-Stick Away Just a Needle-Stick Away

In New Mexico, communists who fail to register their party affiliation with the state commit a felony. Under New Mexico's DNA databanking law, if they are caught they are require...

Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman

Now Set the Teeth… Now Set the Teeth…

Afew days before the election, I accompanied a friend to the dentist's office. It was one of those situations in which appearance takes over more complex realities of who we are....

Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Misidentity Politics Misidentity Politics

The high point of liberal faith that the color line might be permanently breached may have been the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. From a participant's perspectiv...

Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

No Defense No Defense

How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.

Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer

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