Black Panthers

Why I pick lettuce for the Black Panthers Why I pick lettuce for the Black Panthers
I worry that Alice Waters' crusade for local, seasonal food isn't reaching the people who really need it.
COINTELPRO's overdue return
The new FBI will be able to investigate Americans who pose a threat to national security -- and that's a good thing.
Letters to the editor
I knew Mumia when he was Wesley Cook. Plus: The L.A. Times' "blow job"; don't ask, don't tell about Stuart Little.
Black like who?
Mumia Abu-Jamal may be a symbol of racism to the celebrity set, but to most black people, he's just a scary character who probably got what he deserved.
Letters to the Editor
New Leftists Art Goldberg and Stew Albert fire back at David Horowitz
Plus: Amen to Joyce Millman's "year in TV" round-up; is it little girls -- or their moms -- who buy pink toys?
Don't look back
But if you do, how can you say whether your life might have turned out differently? For me, it was a stark choice: Accept the absolute limits on human hope or adhere to the destructive fantasy of change.
Pearls before swine
Alvin Kernan's "In Plato's Cave" chronicles the democratization of the university.
Days of rage (cont.)
Filmmaker Stephen Talbot fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary '1968.'
"progressive" education
LEFTISTS, DUCKING THE HARSH TRUTHS OF HISTORY
AND THEIR OWN MISTAKES, KEEP LIONIZING
THUGS LIKE THE BLACK PANTHERS.
The Cochran-ization of American Justice
Overwrought charges of law enforcement racism, now heard again in the Geronimo Pratt case, are harming black-white relations and perverting the justice system.
Not just the color of our skin
It's time for blacks to acknowledge that their experience of oppression does not set them apart from the human race, argues writer Hugh Pearson.

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