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.
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 controversy over a multiracial category on census forms shows that racial and ethnic advocacy groups aren't worried about fairness as much as they're worried about spoils.
Salon 21st: No, Virginia, black folks aren't cool: Leonce Gaiter writes that the Web's anarchic town square feels like a hostile place for African-Americans still eager to embrace old-fashioned values.
An American anti-terrorism expert reveals how he trained Peruvian government police to storm the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, and rescue the hostages who had been held for four months by guerrillas from the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
