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by Nathan McCall onSeptember 13, 2011
Don't leave the conversation to the demagogues and know-nothings like Limbaugh and Beck.
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by Mary C. Curtis onSeptember 7, 2011
With black and white women at odds over the film, is anybody listening?
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by John McWhorter onSeptember 6, 2011
The issues are more complicated than our "conversation" will concede.
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by Deron Snyder onAugust 26, 2011
King never mentioned anyone's eyesight. So why must we be "colorblind" to achieve his dream?
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by Natalie Hopkinson onNovember 29, 2010
Whites don't need a cranky columnist to tell them what their black neighbors think. They just have to ask.
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by Arlene McKanic onNovember 22, 2010
Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright team deliver a frantic -- and tragic -- comedy about early New Orleans.
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by Farai Chideya onOctober 18, 2010
This writer's 13-year-old cousin was spat upon and called the n-word. But we're supposed to believe that racism is no longer a problem?
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April 12, 2010
Recent incidents of racial hostility have generated some surprise, suggesting the media have been ignoring the concerns of an important ethnic group: whites.
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June 25, 2009
Obama's election has changed many things, but not everything...
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by Sherrilyn A. Ifill onJune 12, 2009
Shelby Steele has attacked Sonia Sotomayor and claims that the Obama presidency will be dominated by identity politics. But this is the same man who predicted that Obama could never win. You would think that he would be quiet trying to figure out why black conservatives have been so wrong about so much over the last generation.
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