Civil Rights

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  • Civil rights under Bush: It's a conservative Christian thing

    How the Bush administration has transformed the Justice Department's Civil Rights Department into a force for conservative legal views.
    By Tim Grieve July 24, 2006

  • Key Bush judge under ethics cloud

    Following a Salon report, top Democrats say Bush nominee Terrence Boyle's record is "outrageous" and that he has "no place on the federal bench."
    By Will Evans May 3, 2006

  • Beyond blaming whitey

    Tavis Smiley's "The Covenant With Black America" has become a No. 1 bestseller because it offers black people a tough and inspiring vision.
    By Debra Dickerson April 28, 2006

  • Whitewashing the New Orleans vote?

    Deficient polling places and confusing absentee ballots could shut thousands of black residents out of the city's mayoral election.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory April 15, 2006

  • The "dream" dies in more ways than one

    Senate deals a "crushing blow" to civil rights -- and the King family legacy.
    By Lynn Harris January 31, 2006

  • Freedom and equality: Un-American activities

    A master historian argues that Reconstruction ideals, far from reflecting America's deepest values, contradicted them
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 16, 2006

  • Alito's ugly association

    His membership in a racist, reactionary group at Princeton reveals the unsavory face of conservatism.
    By Joe Conason January 13, 2006

  • Religious conservatives: All women should be pregnant! Oh, except you

    Calif. fertility doctors refuse to inseminate an unmarried lesbian.
    By Lynn Harris December 7, 2005

  • Oprah on Rosa: "We shall not be moved"

    Oprah Winfrey eulogizes Rosa Parks.
    By Rebecca Traister October 31, 2005

  • First lady

    Rosa Parks will be the first woman ever to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
    By Page Rockwell October 28, 2005

  • Worth waiting for

    Washington is a rare outpost of optimism in gay America, and that may be because the state is moving slowly on same-sex marriage.
    By Eli Sanders May 2, 2005

  • Forgotten history lessons

    Indefinite internment of prisoners of war is an invitation to abuse and humiliation. Why are we repeating our horrendous mistake of the past?
    By Stanley I. Kutler December 24, 2004

  • King vs. King

    Sadly, one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughters lent her name to the anti-gay rights movement. Her father never would have.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson December 13, 2004

  • What would Abe say?

    Former Gov. Mario Cuomo, author of a book on the "wisest" president, speculates about what Lincoln's position would have been on preemptive war, stem cell research, restriction of civil liberties.
    By Mary Jacoby July 3, 2004

  • That old-time "Southern strategy"

    How President Bush sent a message with his court appointments.
    By Jack Bass March 24, 2004

  • "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"

    The power of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights call-to-arms comes from watching a great man grapple with the possibility that he's wrong.
    By Joan Walsh August 19, 2003

  • The presses must roll

    The Supreme Court's Pentagon Papers decision barred an imperious president from blocking publication of explosive government documents about an ill-conceived war. Today, journalists may not be so brave -- or judges so vigilant.
    By Gary Kamiya July 1, 2003

  • The tyrant of Cooperstown

    The Republican hack who runs baseball's Hall of Fame censors "Bull Durham's" Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.
    By King Kaufman April 11, 2003

  • Killing the messenger

    William Harvey discovered the limits of free speech when he paraded a block away from ground zero with a poster of Osama bin Laden.
    By Christopher Ketcham April 8, 2002

  • Egypt's free pass

    Bush officials stand up for Afghan women. So why do they say nothing as Egypt jails and tortures gay men?
    By Cliff Rothman March 23, 2002

  • Any day now

    Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government.
    By Janelle Brown December 3, 2001

  • Throwing it all away

    National security is not justification for the suppression of human rights.
    By Robert Scheer November 21, 2001

  • Wilma Mankiller

    The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, she took tragedy and illness and made strength. And don't even ask where she got her name.
    By Andrew Nelson November 20, 2001

  • The coming repression

    The so-called Patriot Act of 2001 means the end of American due process.
    By Robert Scheer October 31, 2001

  • Don't march for Napster

    Corporate co-optation of civil rights rhetoric is an abomination. It should be shunned.
    By Andrew Leonard April 2, 2001
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