Debra Dickerson

  • It's hard out here for an entourage

    I'd like to thank my agent, my accountant and my therapist. No, really.
    By Debra J. Dickerson February 19, 2007

  • Fighting words

    Can liberal bloggers be both partisan kingmakers and independent journalists? The blogstorm over the John Edwards campaign points to some tough lessons.
    By Joan Walsh February 16, 2007

  • Dickerson on Colbert

    Salon writer meets the host who "doesn't see race"
    By David Puner February 9, 2007

  • Colorblind

    Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race -- if he were actually black.
    By Debra J. Dickerson January 22, 2007

  • 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.
    By Debra J. Dickerson December 18, 2006

  • 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?
    By Debra J. Dickerson December 11, 2006

  • Race matters

    Black History Month is coming soon. I wonder: Will anyone pay me to be black for them this year?
    By Debra J. Dickerson December 4, 2006

  • 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.
    By Debra J. Dickerson November 27, 2006

  • Memo to O.J.: Kill yourself

    But meanwhile, let's hear it for the white girl who got him to confess.
    By Debra J. Dickerson November 20, 2006

  • 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.
    By Debra J. Dickerson November 13, 2006

  • "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.
    By Debra J. Dickerson November 6, 2006

  • 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.
    By Debra Dickerson April 28, 2006

  • Chicks with guns

    28-year-old Kayla Williams did an Army tour in Iraq, and all we got was this insufferably self-absorbed memoir.
    By Debra Dickerson October 24, 2005

  • I want you to want me

    I laughed, I cried -- then I wondered: Why won't the "Wedding Crashers" crash any sister's wedding?
    By Debra Dickerson July 30, 2005

  • Too damn little, too damn late

    Senators can take their half-assed lynching apology and shove it.
    By Debra J. Dickerson June 28, 2005

  • Ten winners from 2000

    Editor Laura Miller and journalist Stephen Cox discuss this year's Salon Book Award winners.
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    January 3, 2001

  • Salon Book Awards

    Ten books from 2000 we wished would never end.
    By Laura Miller and Maria Russo December 18, 2000

  • "An American Story"

    An excerpt from one of Salon's 10 favorite books of 2000.
    By Debra Dickerson December 18, 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.
    By Maggie Jones October 3, 2000

  • False prophet

    A new biography of Elijah Muhammad tackles tough issues, including the matter of blacks' collusion with the Japanese during World War II.
    By Debra Dickerson January 6, 2000

  • 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.
    Letters to the editor January 5, 2000

  • No apologies

    How I learned to fight for my country, proudly.
    By Debra Dickerson December 30, 1999

  • 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.
    By Debra Dickerson December 29, 1999

  • 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.
    By Debra Dickerson December 21, 1999

  • "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.
    By Debra Dickerson December 13, 1999
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