African-Americans

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  • Clinton's amen chorus

    African-American support for the president is being cynically manipulated by liberals who play to blacks' sense of victimization.
    By David Horowitz October 12, 1998

  • Spanking: A black mother's view

    The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums.
    By Karen Grigsby Bates October 7, 1998

  • Black like (white) me

    "A Hope in the Unseen" tells the story of an inner-city black kid at Brown -- through the eyes of a white author who tries to channel him.
    By Janet McDonald August 24, 1998

  • First, we kill all the 11-year-olds

    Meaner than the mean kids who go on shooting sprees from Jonesboro, Ark., to Springfield, Ore., are the measures adults are pursuing in the name of combating crime -- including proposed legislation to execute 11-year-olds
    By Robin Templeton May 27, 1998

  • Young, black and too white

    Once exclusionary bastions of the negro elite, black social clubs for kids are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their chlidren are losing their roots.
    By Karen Grigsby Bates May 15, 1998

  • Murderers, cannibals -- lesbians!

    America has a distinguished history of spreading scandalous rumors about its politicians, and the latest batch of White House gossip is nothing new.
    By Jenn Shreve May 1, 1998

  • "He Got Game"

    Spike Lee's "He Got Game" is a sentimental but affecting look at how a father regained his long-lost son -- through basketball.
    By Gary Kamiya April 30, 1998

  • A diminished view of manhood

    Recent remarks by Green Bay Packer star Reggie White calling homosexuality a sin and the cause of much of the nation's troubles reflect a widespread homophobia in the African-American community.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson April 6, 1998

  • Newsreal: It's class, stupid

    It still doesn't occur to many that affirmative action might be unfair to poor whites, or that minority kids drop out of college not because of their color but because they are poor. It should be class, not race, that matters in the post-affirmative action era.
    By Richard Rodriguez November 10, 1997

  • Newsreal: Broken politics

    A liberal policy analyst blames the left for the decline of big cities and the "self-destructive" behavior of the black community.
    By Jack Skelley November 4, 1997

  • Newsreal: Been there, Dunne that

    Karen Grigsby Bates on how Dominick Dunne's gossipy, glittery O.J. "novel" only tells half the story.
    By Karen Grigsby Bates October 30, 1997

  • The role model syndrome

    Jill Nelson and Gwendolyn Parker are two sassy women writers refuse to play nice in their memoirs of life among the white -- and black -- elite.
    By Jake Lamar October 21, 1997

  • Newsreal: The racial promise

    The Promise Keepers movement may represent a significant step toward racial reconciliation, if the movement's leaders can follow through on their promises.
    By Andres Tapia And Rodolpho Carrasco October 9, 1997

  • Sound Salvation: Comically incorrect

    Chris Rock riffs on unfunny old themes--in "Roll With the New."
    By Sarah Vowell September 5, 1997

  • Why liberals can't think straight about race

    Caught in a tortured dance of guilt and voyeurism, the right-thinking gatekeepers in the media and academia have perfected ways to avoid seeing the collapse of their racialist politics.
    By Jim Sleeper August 19, 1997

  • Nothing to Lose

    The black-white buddy movie "Nothing to lose" is a lazy exercise in tired racial cliches.
    By Laura Miller August 18, 1997

  • Media Circus: if it's Wednesday, a black film must be opening

    Fearful of audience violence, movie execs have stopped opening "urban" films on Friday. But what qualifies as an "urban" film?
    By James Surowiecki August 13, 1997

  • interracial adoption: One couple's story, part 2

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 5, 1997

  • Interracial adoption: One couple's story

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 4, 1997

  • 21st

    Salon 21st: No, Virginia, black folks aren't cool: Leonce Gaiter writes that the Web's anarchic town square feels like a hostile place for African-Americans still eager to embrace old-fashioned values.
    By Leonce Gaiter July 5, 1997

  • 21st: Race matters in cyberspace, too

    Experts and entrepreneurs struggle to explain why African-Americans are underrepresented in the online population and in the Net industry.
    By Cynthia Joyce July 5, 1997

  • In defense of wannabes

    People who identify outside their societal group are the real multiculturalists.
    By Carol Lloyd July 3, 1997

  • Robin Hood Lives

    But taking from the rich to
    give to the poor is exactly what it
    sounds like: robbery.
    By David Horowitz May 24, 1997

  • Newsreal

    An American anti-terrorism expert reveals how he trained Peruvian government police to storm the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, and rescue the hostages who had been held for four months by guerrillas from the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
    By Samuel G. Freedman April 25, 1997

  • Old School Noir

    Marc Gerald searches for African-American noir lost legacy.
    By Marc Gerald March 7, 1997
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