Debra Dickerson

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It's hard out here for an entourage
I'd like to thank my agent, my accountant and my therapist. No, really.
Fighting words
Can liberal bloggers be both partisan kingmakers and independent journalists? The blogstorm over the John Edwards campaign points to some tough lessons.
Dickerson on Colbert
Salon writer meets the host who "doesn't see race"
Colorblind
Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race -- if he were actually black.
Not in my backyard, either
After the poor kids next door took advantage of me, I felt sympathy for the people of Houston, who've suffered crime and violence because of struggling Katrina exiles.
Raising Cain
When I found out I was having a boy, I wondered: How can a feminist raise a man without becoming a hypocrite or a castrator?
Race matters
Black History Month is coming soon. I wonder: Will anyone pay me to be black for them this year?
Souls on ice
While the GOP was exploiting the bigotry of the black clergy in the midterms, black piety was melting before America's eyes.
Memo to O.J.: Kill yourself
But meanwhile, let's hear it for the white girl who got him to confess.
Old school
I'm supposed to be inspired by women my age who run marathons and go back to college, but I'm too tired to be young. It's too much work.
"Jesus didn't smoke no weeds!"
I tried to persuade my Bush-hating, Baptist mother to vote to legalize marijuana in Nevada -- but she wouldn't believe her Savior was cool with pot.
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.
Chicks with guns
28-year-old Kayla Williams did an Army tour in Iraq, and all we got was this insufferably self-absorbed memoir.
I want you to want me
I laughed, I cried -- then I wondered: Why won't the "Wedding Crashers" crash any sister's wedding?
Too damn little, too damn late
Senators can take their half-assed lynching apology and shove it.
Ten winners from 2000
Editor Laura Miller and journalist Stephen Cox discuss this year's Salon Book Award winners.
Salon Book Awards
Ten books from 2000 we wished would never end.
"An American Story"
An excerpt from one of Salon's 10 favorite books of 2000.
"An American Story" by Debra Dickerson
The passionate, category-defying journalist levels her tough gaze on her own journey from the ghetto to Harvard Law School and beyond.
False prophet
A new biography of Elijah Muhammad tackles tough issues, including the matter of blacks' collusion with the Japanese during World War II.
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.
No apologies
How I learned to fight for my country, proudly.
Try him again
Justice for the widow of a dead police officer, cut down in the prime of his life, will not be served by executing a framed man, even if he's guilty.
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.
"The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction" by Linda Gordon
A historian unearths a bizarre-but-true story of New York nuns, Irish Catholic orphans, their Mexican-American would-be parents and a white Protestant lynch mob.
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