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.
Goodnight, Irene
Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances.
Letters to the Editor
What's more horrifying, HMOs or the alternative? Plus: Nothing new about Jewish athletes; was Baltimore election about race?
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.
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.
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.
Letters to the Editor
Give the needy compassion, not preaching; Methodists' tolerance doesn't extend to gay marriage; stop whining over Linux IPO!
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?
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.
Sambos in the shadows
George W. Bush's restrictive deed covenant provides an audit trail to our racist past.
Letters to the Editor
Lauryn Hill is no hoochie; is Ramsey Clark a Serb apologist or the voice of truth?
Lauryn Hill: Hoochie or hero?
The black community debates the singer's icon status in light of her unwed motherhood.
Cops in the 'hood
Does it help to have police live in the neighborhoods they patrol?
Letters to the Editor
We face street harassment every day; should the dean have been busted for computer porn?
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?
Letters to the Editor
The race angle on Littleton massacre; Conason just doesn't get punk music.
Crazy as they wanna be
Black people take secret -- and unwarranted -- comfort in the fact that mass killers tend to be white.
Letters to the Editor
Credit cards as financial crack; does race determine intelligence?
Financial crack
The credit industry is getting wilier about taking our money, and addicted-to-spending Americans are letting them have it.
The last plantation
The "niggardly" scandal should teach whites to watch their language, and blacks to toughen up.
No apologies
How I learned to fight for my country, proudly.
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