Civil Rights

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  • Counting the mix

    With a surprising number of African-Americans identifying themselves as multiracial, the Census Bureau has some colorful math to do.
    By Daryl Lindsey March 16, 2001

  • The Democratic inquisition

    Democrats set out to tar and feather Bush's Cabinet nominees as racists, overlooking their own racial peccadilloes.
    By David Horowitz January 22, 2001

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    The Autobiography of MLK
    By Martin Luther King, Jr. October 5, 2000

  • "A People's History of the United States"

    Historian Howard Zinn's analysis of grass roots political movements sheds light on the flip side of American capitalism's success story.
    October 5, 2000

  • The civil rights movement is dead, RIP

    By David Horowitz
    By September 7, 2000

  • The civil rights movement is dead, RIP

    Black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson criticize racialing profiling in the legal system, but they espouse the same logic in their own politics.
    By David Horowitz September 5, 2000

  • The politics of lynching

    A photography exhibit on the once-common horror misses a key part of its legacy: The federal government's hands-off policies.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson August 31, 2000

  • Has lynch law returned?

    Whether it was murder or suicide, the grim spectacle of a Mississippi teen's death shows that interracial dating is still taboo -- in the minds of blacks as well as whites.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson July 13, 2000

  • Ebony and irony

    A folksy George W. Bush speaks to the NAACP as the more dubious parts of his civil rights record go unmentioned.
    By Jake Tapper July 11, 2000

  • Nina Simone

    Now on a rare tour of the U.S., she's been the "High Priestess of Soul" for decades, making music that's an eloquent blend of joy, sorrow and anger.
    By Jennifer Gilmore June 20, 2000

  • The hired men

    When it comes to "the help," I need a guilt exorcism.
    By Nancy W. Hall April 3, 2000

  • State of bliss?

    After a Vermont court decision, the debate over gay marriage is evolving. But will the privileges of matrimony be extended to same-sex couples?
    By Deb Schwartz January 27, 2000

  • "I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr." by Michael Eric Dyson

    What would the civil rights leader think if he were alive today?
    By Dante Ramos December 24, 1999

  • Twilight of a feminist

    Susan Brownmiller talks about the golden age of ideology and when it's OK for a woman to be a sex object.
    By David Bowman December 22, 1999

  • Letter from Fayetteville

    Not hating the haters: The campaign for gay rights comes to Arkansas.
    By Rebecca Bryant October 12, 1998

  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    This is the 30th anniversary of a series of tumultuous events that shaped a generation. To understand the activists of the '60s, you have to revisit 1968 and consider what it was like to those who lived through it.
    By Stephen Talbot July 22, 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

  • The Salon Interview: Stanley Crouch

    Author and critic Stanley Crouch offers sharp and commonsensical views on President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, multiculturalism and the American identity, Spike Lee and Johnnie Cochran.
    By Jonathan Broder February 25, 1998

  • Newsreal: Ended, not mended

    By upholding California's Proposition 209, the Supreme Court effectively defeated the Clinton administration's top civil rights nominee -- and drove a huge nail into the president's "mend, don't end" affirmative-action policies.
    By Jonathan Broder November 6, 1997

  • When "civil rights" means
    civil wrongs

    The real carriers of the civil rights banner
    are those who are helping end affirmative action.
    By David Horowitz September 15, 1997

  • SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal

    The Swiss didn't just hang on to Holocaust victims' bank accounts. They used them to bankroll Hitler's war machine.
    By Jonathan Broder July 25, 1997

  • SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal

    A new documentary explores conflict and cooperation between blacks and Jews.
    By Lori Leibovich July 24, 1997

  • Should gays join the mainstream?

    Two gay readers, provoked by David Horowitz's argument that gays aren't "normal," debate whether they are -- or should be.
    June 16, 1997
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