Rocking the Black Vote Rocking the Black Vote
Dallas DJ Tom Joyner is encouraging African-American listeners to engage in electoral politics.
Oct 22, 2008 / Editorial / Amy Alexander
Sarah’s Steel Ones Sarah’s Steel Ones
Her politics are detestable, but can we take a moment to recognize that Sarah Palin is one tough woman?
Sep 12, 2008 / Editorial / Amy Alexander
Minority Bloggers Fight Inequality Minority Bloggers Fight Inequality
Minority journalists are discovering new opportunities--and the same old barriers--online.
Jul 16, 2008 / Feature / Amy Alexander
Truth and Consequences Truth and Consequences
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?
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander
A Torch Passed A Torch Passed
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.
Jan 29, 2008 / Feature / Amy Alexander
Black Women Talk Barack Black Women Talk Barack
It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.
Jan 24, 2008 / Editorial / Amy Alexander
Come On, People Come On, People
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?
Nov 14, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander
Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit
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.
Oct 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander
‘We Got To Do Better’ ‘We Got To Do Better’
Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.
Dec 20, 2006 / Editorial / Amy Alexander
Tavis Smiley’s Covenant Tavis Smiley’s Covenant
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 Ma...
Sep 1, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander