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Amy Alexander

Amy Alexander is a 2008 Alfred Knobler Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. She is currently at work on a book about race and the media.

Currently

  • Truth and Consequences

    March 6, 2008

    Who's more to blame in the Love and Consequences hoax: the faux ghetto girl or the credulous book editors and reviewers who so eagerly snapped up her story?

  • A Torch Passed

    January 28, 2008

    With a veritable Mount Rushmore of Kennedy faces arrayed behind him, Barack Obama received powerful symbolic and political support from the icons of the liberal establishment.

  • Black Women Talk Barack

    January 24, 2008

    It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.

2007

  • Come On, People

    November 14, 2007

    A new book by Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint is a tough-love prescription for social change. Why are critics in the black community piling on?

  • Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit

    October 15, 2007

    Driven by a tabloid episode from her own marriage, the novelist joins the debate over the mass marketing of trashy books to young black readers.

2006

  • 'We Got To Do Better'

    December 20, 2006 Subscribe

    Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.

  • Tavis Smiley's Covenant

    September 1, 2006

    Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Martin Luther King Jr.

2001

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