After the Renaissance After the Renaissance
A quarter-million people thronged Abraham Lincoln's Memorial that day. In the sweltering August humidity, executive secretary Roy Wilkins gravely announced that Dr. William Edwar...
Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Brown
Caught in the WAVE Caught in the WAVE
A corporate antiviolence program targets students who don't fit in.
Nov 16, 2000 / Feature / Jane Spencer
Indian Country, NY Indian Country, NY
A land-claim suit is pitting Oneidas against other upstate residents.
Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Beverly Gage
A DNA Balance Sheet A DNA Balance Sheet
DNA testing can convict the guilty; it can also destroy the privacy of millions.
Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman
Just a Needle-Stick Away Just a Needle-Stick Away
In New Mexico, communists who fail to register their party affiliation with the state commit a felony. Under New Mexico's DNA databanking law, if they are caught they are require...
Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman
Now Set the Teeth… Now Set the Teeth…
Afew days before the election, I accompanied a friend to the dentist's office. It was one of those situations in which appearance takes over more complex realities of who we are....
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Misidentity Politics Misidentity Politics
The high point of liberal faith that the color line might be permanently breached may have been the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. From a participant's perspectiv...
Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
No Defense No Defense
How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.
Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer
North of the Border North of the Border
One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworke...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Ugarte
Color and the Court Color and the Court
The project of racial reconciliation and historical correction is "constitutional" in the deepest, multiple senses of that word.
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Christopher Edley Jr.