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I know I'm not supposed to read too much into a movie like Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but when you're living with a 6-year-old whose entire generation role-plays and reiterates each an

Upon his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind some 2,000 pages of a never-finished second novel--more than forty years of fine-tuning what his literary executor, John F.

Scapegoating immigrants may be a transatlantic and pan-European phenomenon, but need Paris pander to those who want the tricolor to be monochrome?

"Justice for Amadou Diallo!" has been the rallying cry throughout New York since four police officers gunned down the unarmed, 22-year-old West African immigrant as he stood outside his Bronx ap

Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.

Policy talk about a racialized "underclass" rests on social
science research that often reproduces notions of racial difference, in
an enormous tautology.

What could have possessed the Rev. Jerry Falwell to announce
that the Antichrist is probably alive and a male Jew?

You cannot even spell here without her. First, Margaret Walker, Margaret Walker Alexander. She was one of the greatest writers of the language.

This article originally appeared in the March 13, 1995 issue.

When I came out in Boston in the mid-l970s, I had no way of knowing that the lesbian and gay movement I was discovering was in many ways unique.

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Born into the civil rights struggle, the actress and singer had a long and remarkable history as an activist who sacrificed for the struggle against segregation and economic injustice.

May 11, 2010

Washington editor Chris Hayes and Pat Buchanan debate immigration reform.

April 28, 2010

Progressives can dismantle a centuries-old tool of oppression: pitting working-class whites against people of color. But we're missing the chance.

March 28, 2010

GOP, Tea Partisans should honor Reagan, who said: "There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country."

March 25, 2010

Tea party actions are an act of sedition not just racism.

March 22, 2010

"I haven't heard anything like this in 40, 45 years," says Congressman John Lewis. "Since the march to Selma, really."

March 20, 2010

In search of a trifling 1.5 percent bite to take out of California's $20 billion budget gap, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a cruel and short-sighted cut in public assistance.

February 22, 2010

Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississippi River a week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. But she'd never gotten any answers. 

February 13, 2010

I was not surprised by "HisPANIC: the Myth of Immigrant Crime," Ron Unz's article in The American Conservative showing that Latinos in the US have a crime rate no higher than that of whites once you adjust for age. That's because Unz's thesis is in fact well-known.

February 11, 2010

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele used to be able to muster a lot of disdain for political players who suggested that criticism of them might be racially motivated. But no more.

February 9, 2010
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