The True Story of Equiano The True Story of Equiano
Vincent Carretta's Equiano, the African is the complex narrative of a Carolina slave who bought his freedom, married an English woman and published a memoir on his life as a seafar...
Nov 2, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
Rosa Parks: A Woman of Substance Rosa Parks: A Woman of Substance
Frozen in memory as the simple woman who helped to bring down segregation, Rosa Parks was far more complex and formidable than the popular imagination makes her out to be . A fulle...
Oct 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
The Two-Way Squeeze The Two-Way Squeeze
The quiet purposefulness that characterized Rosa Parks's actions bears eloquent witness to the power of her protest.
Oct 25, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Hurricane Gumbo Hurricane Gumbo
The Cajun and Creole folks of Ville Platte, LA, learned long ago not to rely on the government for help. It the wake of hurricanes they launched a homemade rescue-and-relief effort...
Oct 20, 2005 / Feature / Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot
Nearer, My God, to Thee Nearer, My God, to Thee
Follow a mythical voyage through America's nightmare, on a ship with an uncaring captain, a subsequent shipwreck, and the poor are left behind to perish.
Oct 20, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Frontier Injustice Frontier Injustice
In Andrew Jackson: A Life and Times, the frontier president is cast as a one-man beacon for democracy. But Jackson's core belief was a fervent defense of land.
Oct 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Anatol Lieven
The Little Black Book of Virtues The Little Black Book of Virtues
The Wicked Witch stomps in his defense and the wise old tortoise explains his reasoning. But Mother Courage knows the truth behind William Bennett's racist comments.
Oct 6, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Bill Bennett’s Abortion Fantasies Bill Bennett’s Abortion Fantasies
What's really shocking about Bill Bennett's public fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms...
Oct 4, 2005 / Editorial / Mark Sorkin
25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans 25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans
New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city subm...
Sep 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot
‘One Nation, Fragmented’ ‘One Nation, Fragmented’
It took a Gulf Coast hurricane to make Americans aware of the poverty in their own backyard. Now it's time for public policies that end racial segregation, so that the poor in this...
Sep 22, 2005 / Editorial / Eyal Press