Debra Dickerson

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  • Letters to the Editor

    Are 13-year-olds ready for "hand jobs and heavy petting"? Plus: "Weird Weekends" host talks back; it's time for minorities to rethink party loyalties.
    Letters to the Editor October 29, 1999

  • Goodnight, Irene

    Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances.
    By Debra Dickerson October 23, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    What's more horrifying, HMOs or the alternative? Plus: Nothing new about Jewish athletes; was Baltimore election about race?
    Letters to the Editor October 21, 1999

  • White men can jump

    When Baltimore, which is 65 percent black, chose a white as its next mayor, it marked a watershed event in the evolution of America's racial politics.
    By Debra Dickerson October 13, 1999

  • The real Bush drug scandal

    Texas Gov. George W. Bush has presided over a crackdown on first-time drug offenders from poor neighborhoods like Houston's Third Ward Bottoms.
    By Debra Dickerson September 14, 1999

  • How not to stifle a racist

    The California Supreme Court may have been well-meaning when it banned racial slurs in a hostile workplace, but in the process it damaged the Bill of Rights.
    By Debra Dickerson August 16, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Give the needy compassion, not preaching; Methodists' tolerance doesn't extend to gay marriage; stop whining over Linux IPO!
    Letters to the Editor August 6, 1999

  • So this is compassion?

    George Bush's compassionate conservatism sounds a lot like Al Gore's. But are faith-based charities really the answer to America's problems?
    By Debra Dickerson July 29, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    "Blair Witch" buzz is real, not faked; multiple partners, multiple problems; Christian-bashing in "Son of Sam" story was over the top.
    Letters to the Editor July 23, 1999

  • Sambos in the shadows

    George W. Bush's restrictive deed covenant provides an audit trail to our racist past.
    By Debra Dickerson July 15, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Lauryn Hill is no hoochie; is Ramsey Clark a Serb apologist or the voice of truth?
    Letters to the Editor June 28, 1999

  • Lauryn Hill: Hoochie or hero?

    The black community debates the singer's icon status in light of her unwed motherhood.
    By Debra Dickerson June 22, 1999

  • Cops in the 'hood

    Does it help to have police live in the neighborhoods they patrol?
    By Debra Dickerson June 14, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    We face street harassment every day; should the dean have been busted for computer porn?
    Letters to the Editor May 28, 1999

  • Too sexy for my shirt

    It's spring, a time for many men to sexually harass women on the streets in the crudest of terms. Should there be a law against it?
    By Debra Dickerson May 21, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    The race angle on Littleton massacre; Conason just doesn't get punk music.
    Letters to the Editor May 11, 1999

  • Crazy as they wanna be

    Black people take secret -- and unwarranted -- comfort in the fact that mass killers tend to be white.
    By Debra Dickerson May 4, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Credit cards as financial crack; does race determine intelligence?
    Letters to the Editor May 3, 1999

  • Financial crack

    The credit industry is getting wilier about taking our money, and addicted-to-spending Americans are letting them have it.
    By Debra Dickerson April 26, 1999

  • The last plantation

    The "niggardly" scandal should teach whites to watch their language, and blacks to toughen up.
    By Debra Dickerson February 5, 1999

  • No apologies

    How I learned to fight for my country, proudly.
    By Debra Dickerson January 29, 1999
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