The (Not So) New World Order
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black.
Maybe Your Great-Grandmother Really Was Cherokee
A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian traces black-Native American relations from the 1500s to the present.
Is the USDA Still the Last Plantation?
During the Bush administration, 13,999 racial discrimination cases were swept under the rug at the Agriculture Department. What will Secretary Tom Vilsack do about it?
Rakim's Back
Def Jam is 25. "Rapper’s Delight" is 30. And Rakim is 41. But with his latest album, The Seventh Seal, hip-hop heads can remember the best of the golden age.
Color-Struck Around The Globe
Sammy Sosa’s new vampire complexion is a jarring reminder that, from the Dominican Republic to Dakar to New Delhi, white is still right, yellow is still mellow and if you’re black, get back.
How ‘Precious’ Is Like Palin’s ‘Going Rogue’
Nope, I didn’t see the movie, and I’m not going to read the book. I’m tired of being played by over-hyped productions.
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Lee Daniels' film? Brilliant. The Oprah-fied pitch? Not so much.
Star-Spangled Muslims
The Ft. Hood tragedy is a citizenship test for Muslim Americans—and everyone else.
