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.

Rocking the Black Vote

October 22, 2008

Dallas DJ Tom Joyner is encouraging African-American listeners to engage in electoral politics.
Sarah's Steel Ones

September 12, 2008

Her politics are detestable, but can we take a moment to recognize that Sarah Palin is one tough woman?
The Color Line Online

July 16, 2008

Minority journalists are discovering new opportunities--and the same old barriers--online.
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.

'We Got To Do Better'

December 20, 2006

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.