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"Tropic Thunder" inspired protest from disability activists. But why is no one complaining that Robert Downey Jr. is playing a black man?
By James Hannaham Aug 25, 2008

  • Obama to NAACP: "Our work is not over"

    In a speech to the civil rights group, Barack Obama said he'd work to end discrimination and invoked the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to describe the fight ahead.
    July 15, 2008

  • NAACP head wants Florida, Michigan delegates counted

    Julian Bond writes to DNC chairman Howard Dean, saying the states should be represented at the Democratic convention.
    By Alex Koppelman February 13, 2008

  • The NAACP's sad decline

    The venerable advocacy group changed history with its civil rights leadership -- so why does it seem to have lost its way?
    By Debra Dickerson June 19, 2007

  • Barack Obama and the Springfield race riot

    Springfield, Ill., where Barack Obama officially announces his presidential campaign on Saturday, has a tortured racial history. What happened, and what it could mean for Obama.
    By Jim Rasenberger February 10, 2007

  • Recapping our top story, up is the new down

    Bush gets heckled. The White House calls it applause.
    By Tim Grieve July 21, 2006

  • Frist, in a switch, moves Voting Right Act just in time for Bush

    Friday, he wasn't in any hurry. But with the president speaking before the NAACP today, the Senate majority leader is on the case now.
    By Tim Grieve July 20, 2006

  • "It will be worse than in 2000"

    NAACP head Julian Bond says the GOP is going all out to suppress the black vote. Can his "Election Protection" offensive stop them?
    By Mary Jacoby October 28, 2004

  • "Shut your mouth"

    As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America.
    By Tim Grieve March 25, 2003

  • Shock troops for Bush

    Partisans of the extreme right gathered outside of Washington this weekend to cheer on Cheney and Coulter -- and vent their rage at the liberals who rule America.
    By Michelle Goldberg February 4, 2003

  • "Barbershop" doesn't need a trim

    Beneath the furor over the film's wisecrack about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. lies a real crisis in black leadership.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson October 1, 2002

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    A Labor Day gift from baseball players. Plus, how the Democrats become a majority party, Jeb Bush settles a voting rights suit in Florida and Colorado gets rocky for a GOP incumbent.
    August 30, 2002

  • Counting the mix

    With a surprising number of African-Americans identifying themselves as multiracial, the Census Bureau has some colorful math to do.
    By Daryl Lindsey March 16, 2001

  • Two nations, once again

    Black and white America are worlds apart in the way they view President-elect Bush, and how he came to power.
    By Eric Boehlert December 16, 2000

  • Bush angers slain man's family

    The Byrds harbor deep resentments over the Texas governor's treatment of their family and failure to support a hate crimes bill.
    By Jake Tapper October 16, 2000

  • Tulia's witch trials

    A drug sting case in a small Texas town shows how drug war paranoia can feed the fires of injustice.
    By Arianna Huffington October 11, 2000

  • The politics of lynching

    A photography exhibit on the once-common horror misses a key part of its legacy: The federal government's hands-off policies.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson August 31, 2000

  • Brother from another planet

    An NAACP chapter president and a Bush delegate? Meet Shannon Reeves.
    By Jake Tapper July 31, 2000

  • Black like Al?

    Listen and be the judge: Does Al Gore change his tone when he talks to African-Americans?
    By July 14, 2000

  • Has lynch law returned?

    Whether it was murder or suicide, the grim spectacle of a Mississippi teen's death shows that interracial dating is still taboo -- in the minds of blacks as well as whites.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson July 13, 2000

  • Ebony and irony

    A folksy George W. Bush speaks to the NAACP as the more dubious parts of his civil rights record go unmentioned.
    By Jake Tapper July 11, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Are black leaders hypocritical in their response to hate crime? Plus: Limbaugh's rush to judgment on McCain; do teachers necessitate tutors?
    Letters to the editor March 8, 2000

  • "The stakes are a bit higher for us"

    The NAACP's Washington bureau chief takes the Census Bureau to task for its new multiracial categories.
    By Daryl Lindsey February 16, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Don't blame Gov. Bush -- he's just one of Texas' many willing executioners Plus: Is Confederate flag flap a waste of NAACP time? How "liberated" are women who wait by the phone for a date?
    Letters to the editor January 21, 2000

  • 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
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