Racism and Discrimination

America’s Debt to Blacks America’s Debt to Blacks

Well before the birth of our country, Europe and the eventual United States perpetrated a heinous wrong against the peoples of Africa and sustained and benefited from the wrong t...

Feb 23, 2000 / Randall Robinson

Remembering in Black and White Remembering in Black and White

It may be my imagination, but this year Black History Month has seemed to present a more complicated range of memorials than in the recent past.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Rebel Yell Rebel Yell

The recent march in South Carolina, demanding the removal of the Confederate flag from the state Capitol is the latest episode in a long-running debate over the legacy of slavery.&...

Jan 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

‘The First Environmentalists’ ‘The First Environmentalists’

For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow for the decimatio...

Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker

Brownout at School Brownout at School

The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.

Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Stop-Time in the Levant Stop-Time in the Levant

It is remarkable to what extent almost anything having to do with the Middle East in this country--be it political, cultural, historical or even personal--is permeated by the tri...

Dec 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ammiel Alcalay

The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas

Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and her husband, Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom, would like to thank the John M.

Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Eric Alterman

The Life of a Black Man The Life of a Black Man

A stay of execution was issued October 26.

Oct 28, 1999 / Angela Y. Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker

Turning Back the Clock On Voting Rights Turning Back the Clock On Voting Rights

Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Oct 28, 1999 / Feature / Ron Nixon

Ragtime, My Time Ragtime, My Time

As the youngest of five girls and two boys growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, I was raised to believe that if I worked hard, was a good person and always told the truth, the world w...

Sep 23, 1999 / Feature / Alton Fitzgerald White

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