Race

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  • No light in his attic

    For the tragic impact a "progressive," PC education has on minority students of great promise, look at the sad case of Harvard's Cornel West.
  • Navigating Nairobi

    For a Western woman, waiting on a rainy day at a matatu stand illuminates some inescapable truths.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Don't let junkie turn misspent youth into profit; Brazil's "raceless" society; what's the truth about Waco?
  • "Coal to Cream"

    An African-American writer discovers a raceless society in Brazil -- or so it seems at first.
  • Theater in black and white

    Two Chicago plays -- "Jitney" and "Spinning into Butter" -- tackle racial issues from opposite sides of the tracks.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Limp Bizkit's rants would be acceptable if they were black; getting it right on Goth; are you sheltering your children or setting them up?
  • The master's last word

    "Juneteenth" offers a tantalizing new slice of Ralph Ellison's genius for capturing America's racial conundrums.
  • Journey to the Center of a Race

    Fetzer Mills, Jr. interviews Randall Kenan, author of 'Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.'
  • Across the great divide

    If government programs can't solve America's racial dilemma, can love? Three new books take a fresh look at the ongoing challenge of black-and-white integration.
  • Mrs. Cosby's racial paranoia

    What right does a grieving mother have to blame American racism for the murder of her son by a Ukrainian immigrant?
  • Young, black and too white

    Once exclusionary bastions of the negro elite, black social clubs for kids are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their chlidren are losing their roots.
  • The craziest road race of all

    Craig Bromberg reports from the finale of the Paris-Dakar Rally, a grueling 17-day road race that weaves through wadis and sand dunes and grenade-wielding Tuareg rebels.
  • In a league of their own

    Even Dusty Baker told her to get a life, but one baseball fanatic and her daughter wouldn't think of missing spring training.
  • The Salon Interview - Nadine Gordimer

    The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order.
  • gangsta athletes, anxious whites

    THE LATRELL SPREWELL CASE MAY SIGNAL THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA'S LAST RACIAL UTOPIA -- SPORTS.
  • Media Circus:

    The Latrell Sprewell case may signal the collapse of America's last racial utopia -- sports.
  • Newsreal: It's class, stupid

    It still doesn't occur to many that affirmative action might be unfair to poor whites, or that minority kids drop out of college not because of their color but because they are poor. It should be class, not race, that matters in the post-affirmative action era.
  • Dusty's Way

    The San Francisco Giants' skipper has led his team to victory -- and proved that multiculturalism doesn't have to be a drag on merit and spunk.
  • Sound Salvation: Comically incorrect

    Chris Rock riffs on unfunny old themes--in "Roll With the New."
  • Why liberals can't think straight about race

    Caught in a tortured dance of guilt and voyeurism, the right-thinking gatekeepers in the media and academia have perfected ways to avoid seeing the collapse of their racialist politics.
  • Nothing to Lose

    The black-white buddy movie "Nothing to lose" is a lazy exercise in tired racial cliches.
  • Why Israel shouldn't trust Yasir Arafat

    The Nobel Laureate is a sadistic dictator and shameless liar who has just one wish for the Jewish state: That it cease to exist.
  • Respect, yes;
    equivalence, no

    Same-sex marriage is a lost cause because
    gays are not the "same."
  • Robin Hood Lives

    But taking from the rich to
    give to the poor is exactly what it
    sounds like: robbery.
  • Not just the color of our skin

    It's time for blacks to acknowledge that their experience of oppression does not set them apart from the human race, argues writer Hugh Pearson.
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