Stories by Salim Muwakkil
Salim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times, where he has worked since 1983. He is the host of "The Salim Muwakkil" show on WVON, Chicago's historic black radio station, and he wrote the text for the book HAROLD: Photographs from the Harold Washington Years.
Posted on Dec 30, 2010, Source: In These Times
The depressing Jon Burge saga in Chicago reinforces the notion that racial bias is part of the institutional gene pool of the nation's police departments.
Posted on Oct 13, 2010, Source: In These Times
The election of the nation’s first black president has done little to improve media coverage of the nation’s black community.
Posted on Sep 18, 2009, Source: In These Times
Barack Obama navigates a world where color still matters.
Posted on Sep 11, 2007, Source: In These Times
In the U.S., scholars who contest the conventional wisdom about Israel all too often lose their reputations -- and their jobs.
Posted on Aug 2, 2007, Source: In These Times
Political masterminds have transformed the candidate from a political visionary into an electoral product like every other presidential aspirant.
Posted on Jan 19, 2006, Source: In These Times
A month after Tookie Williams death, it's more obvious than ever why we needed him alive.
Posted on Sep 14, 2005, Source: In These Times
Hurricane Katrina has blown away the idea that race has ceased to matter in the United States.
Posted on Jun 22, 2005, Source: In These Times
It's downright depressing how, besieged by poverty, disease, violence and mass incarceration, African-American men are conspicuously missing from families and communities.
Posted on Feb 8, 2005, Source: In These Times
Race has faded into the background as an issue for most Americans, including progressives.
Posted on Nov 8, 2004, Source: In These Times
Cornell West could be the very definition of public intellectual.
Posted on Aug 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
From manslaughter convictions to boxing promotions, spiky-haired Don King has always been a hustler. His latest hustle: Republican pitchman.
Posted on Aug 6, 2004, Source: In These Times
Many experts are warning that black men are in the midst of a social crisis that Americans seem eager to ignore.
Posted on Jul 8, 2004, Source: In These Times
Law enforcement conflates rap stars with gang members merely because most of them are young black men.
Posted on Feb 3, 2004, Source: In These Times
The fight against Native American mascots and logos is a serious struggle to overturn the stereotypes that were forged in our racist past but still help determine the trajectories of our lives today.
Posted on Oct 23, 2003, Source: In These Times
Media activists' preoccupation with corporate ownership does not address the racism that permeates the news.
Posted on Sep 15, 2003, Source: In These Times
The latest White House affront to Muslims is the recess appointment of Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Posted on Aug 26, 2003, Source: In These Times
Civil rights groups are still searching for a common thread to unite progressives in a struggle for racial justice.
Posted on Jul 21, 2003, Source: In These Times
Few Americans know the legacy that racial slavery and Jim Crow apartheid has bequeathed to African-Americans.
Posted on Jul 1, 2003, Source: In These Times
Once-mighty notions of racial taxonomy fall hard in the three-part PBS series, "Race: The Power of an Illusion."
Posted on Jun 6, 2003, Source: In These Times
From 1981 to 1993 the South African National Defense force developed bioweapons for the purpose of 'suppressing population growth among blacks.'
Posted on Jan 7, 2003, Source: In These Times
Beset by a growing chorus of critics who charge that its glorification of the "Thug Life" promotes misogyny, violence and crime, hip hop's advocates are on the defensive.
Posted on Oct 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In the face of growing public opposition and apparent Democratic appeasement, a Congressional anti-war faction has finally taken shape.
Posted on Sep 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A recent study authored by the Justice Policy Institute reveals how misguided drug policies cause havoc in black communities
Posted on Aug 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Phil Donahue is not losing out to his rivals because of his politics. It's the inane theatrics of talk show television that is hurting this progressive
Posted on Aug 28, 2002, Source: In These Times
President Bush downplays the religious aspects of the Sept. 11 attacks, but Christian fundamentalists and neoconservatives have seized upon 9/11 to fire a fusillade of invective at the religion of Islam.
Posted on Mar 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
With Fox News entrenched firmly to the right and CNN scrambling to scoop up more right-wing commentators, the best strategy for MSNBC is...to move to the left, of course.
Posted on Nov 1, 2000, Source: In These Times
Despite the fact that racial minorities are disproportionately victimized by pollution, few traditionally have been involved in the organized struggle against environmental degradation. Black activists explain that they have ignored the ecology movement for so long because it excluded them. Recently, however, the interests of environmentalists and civil rights advocates have converged in struggles that fall under the rubric "environmental justice."
Posted on Jul 5, 2000, Source: In These Times
Milk is becoming the major bone of contention in a rancorous debate about racism in U.S. dietary guidelines. Federal guidelines recommend that all Americans over the age of two have two to three servings of dairy products each day, despite the fact that most non-white Americans are lactose intolerant.
Posted on May 30, 2000, Source: In These Times
Where is the color in the new activism? Why haven't the connections between issues -- globalization, sweatshops and the environment on one hand, racial profiling, police brutality and prisons on the other -- been made?
Posted on May 9, 2000, Source: In These Times
A slew of activists and researchers are bringing the debate over slavery reparations into the mainstream.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: In These Times
The Rev. Jesse L Jackson has been considered the steward of Martin Luther King Jr.'s progressive legacy. But even those who consider him an ally are suspicious of his enthusiasm for capitalist solutions and corporate connections. Is Jackson's embrace of corporate capitalism a betrayal of the progressive ideas held by his mentor?
