Don Imus and the State of Women’s Sports Don Imus and the State of Women’s Sports
It's been thirty-five years since Title IX was passed, and women athletes are still battling the kind of sexism Imus espouses.
Apr 11, 2007 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Jesse Jackson Can’t Help Obama Jesse Jackson Can’t Help Obama
Obama thinks Jackson's endorsement will give him a rocket boost with black voters. It won't.
Apr 6, 2007 / Feature / Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Body Language Body Language
A new "ethnic correctness" is taking hold among minorities that might reverse a rising trend among Asians and others to undergo plastic surgery to look more westernized.
Mar 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Lam
Goodbye, Baltimore Goodbye, Baltimore
In a kinetic and searching memoir, Ace of Spades, David Matthews confronts the identity questions that bedeviled him growing up biracial.
Mar 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kate Levin
The Smog of Race War in LA The Smog of Race War in LA
Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.
Mar 21, 2007 / Feature / Roberto Lovato
Gary Tyler’s Quest for Justice Gary Tyler’s Quest for Justice
Sports figures are joining the crusade to free a Louisiana man convicted as a teenager of a murder he didn't commit.
Mar 21, 2007 / Feature / Dave Zirin
L’Étranger L’Étranger
The media have fashioned an impossible portrait of Barack Obama: an American cleansed of the baggage of racism and slavery.
Feb 22, 2007 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams
White History 101 White History 101
Why can't white people and black people have access to a shared history that is accurate, honest, antiracist and inclusive?
Feb 21, 2007 / Beneath the Radar / Gary Younge
Lockdown in Greeley Lockdown in Greeley
A recent police raid on a small-city factory showcases the Bush Administration's frightening war on illegal immigration.
Feb 15, 2007 / Feature / Marc Cooper
And the Beat Goes On… And the Beat Goes On…
A new book examining civil rights coverage demonstrates that the best reporting sometimes requires journalists to toss objectivity out the window.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman