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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
Oct 29, 1999
Goodnight, Irene
Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances.
By Debra Dickerson
Oct 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
Oct 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
Oct 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
Sep 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
Aug 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
Aug 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
Jul 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
Jul 23, 1999
Sambos in the shadows
George W. Bush's restrictive deed covenant provides an audit trail to our racist past.
By Debra Dickerson
Jul 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
Jun 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
Jun 22, 1999
Cops in the 'hood
Does it help to have police live in the neighborhoods they patrol?
By Debra Dickerson
Jun 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
Apr 26, 1999
The last plantation
The "niggardly" scandal should teach whites to watch their language, and blacks to toughen up.
By Debra Dickerson
Feb 5, 1999
No apologies
How I learned to fight for my country, proudly.
By Debra Dickerson
Jan 29, 1999
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