http://dir.salon.com/topics/debra_dickerson/?source=rss&aim=debra_dickerson en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST By Debra J. Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/19/entourage/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/19/entourage/index.html?source=rss I'd like to thank my agent, my accountant and my therapist. No, really. By Joan Walsh Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/16/obama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/16/obama/index.html?source=rss Can liberal bloggers be both partisan kingmakers and independent journalists? The blogstorm over the John Edwards campaign points to some tough lessons. By David Puner Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2007/02/09/debra_dickerson_colbert/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2007/02/09/debra_dickerson_colbert/index.html?source=rss Salon writer meets the host who "doesn't see race" By Debra J. Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/22/obama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/22/obama/index.html?source=rss Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race -- if he were actually black. By Debra J. Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/18/katrina/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/18/katrina/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/11/feminist_mother/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/11/feminist_mother/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/04/black_history_month/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/04/black_history_month/index.html?source=rss Black History Month is coming soon. I wonder: Will anyone pay me to be black for them this year? By Debra J. Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/27/black_church/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/27/black_church/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/20/oj_regan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/20/oj_regan/index.html?source=rss But meanwhile, let's hear it for the white girl who got him to confess. By Debra J. Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/13/more/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/13/more/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/06/weeds/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/11/06/weeds/index.html?source=rss 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 Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/04/28/smiley/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/04/28/smiley/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/10/24/williams/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/10/24/williams/index.html?source=rss 28-year-old Kayla Williams did an Army tour in Iraq, and all we got was this insufferably self-absorbed memoir. By Debra Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/07/30/gender_crashers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/07/30/gender_crashers/index.html?source=rss I laughed, I cried -- then I wondered: Why won't the "Wedding Crashers" crash any sister's wedding? By Debra J. Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/06/28/apology_for_lynching/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/06/28/apology_for_lynching/index.html?source=rss Senators can take their half-assed lynching apology and shove it. <p> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/audio/col/mill/2001/01/03/miller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/col/mill/2001/01/03/miller/index.html?source=rss Editor Laura Miller and journalist Stephen Cox discuss this year's Salon Book Award winners. By Laura Miller and Maria Russo Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/18/bookawards/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/18/bookawards/index.html?source=rss Ten books from 2000 we wished would never end. By Debra Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/18/dickerson_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/18/dickerson_excerpt/index.html?source=rss An excerpt from one of Salon's 10 favorite books of 2000. By Maggie Jones Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/03/dickerson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/03/dickerson/index.html?source=rss The passionate, category-defying journalist levels her tough gaze on her own journey from the ghetto to Harvard Law School and beyond. By Debra Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/01/06/muhammad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/01/06/muhammad/index.html?source=rss A new biography of Elijah Muhammad tackles tough issues, including the matter of blacks&#039; collusion with the Japanese during World War II. Letters to the editor Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/01/05/mumia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/01/05/mumia/index.html?source=rss I knew Mumia when he was Wesley Cook. Plus: The L.A. Times&#039; "blow job"; don&#039;t ask, don&#039;t tell about Stuart Little. By Debra Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/12/30/newsa950633720/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/12/30/newsa950633720/index.html?source=rss How I learned to fight for my country, proudly. By Debra Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/12/29/jamal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/12/29/jamal/index.html?source=rss 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&#039;s guilty. By Debra Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/12/21/mumia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/12/21/mumia/index.html?source=rss Mumia Abu-Jamal may be a symbol of racism to the celebrity set, but to most black people, he&#039;s just a scary character who probably got what he deserved. By Debra Dickerson Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/12/13/gordon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/12/13/gordon/index.html?source=rss 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.