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MediaOctober 22, 2008
Rocking the Black Vote
Dallas DJ Tom Joyner is encouraging African-American listeners to engage in electoral politics.
Amy Alexander
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ElectionsSeptember 12, 2008
Sarah’s Steel Ones
Her politics are detestable, but can we take a moment to recognize that Sarah Palin is one tough woman?
Amy Alexander
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Internet and New MediaJuly 16, 2008
Minority Bloggers Fight Inequality
Minority journalists are discovering new opportunities–and the same old barriers–online.
Amy Alexander
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Autobiography and MemoirMarch 6, 2008
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?
Amy Alexander
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Election 2008January 29, 2008
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.
Amy Alexander
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Political FiguresJanuary 24, 2008
Black Women Talk Barack
It’s like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.
Amy Alexander
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisNovember 14, 2007
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?
Amy Alexander
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisOctober 15, 2007
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.
Amy Alexander
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Racism and DiscriminationDecember 20, 2006
‘We Got To Do Better’
Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.
Amy Alexander
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Non-fictionSeptember 1, 2006
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 Martin Luther King Jr.
Amy Alexander