Stories by Salim Muwakkil
In the U.S., scholars who contest the conventional wisdom about Israel all too often lose their reputations -- and their jobs.
Posted on Sep 11, 2007
Political masterminds have transformed the candidate from a political visionary into an electoral product like every other presidential aspirant.
Posted on Aug 2, 2007
A month after Tookie Williams death, it's more obvious than ever why we needed him alive.
Posted on Jan 19, 2006
Hurricane Katrina has blown away the idea that race has ceased to matter in the United States.
Posted on Sep 14, 2005
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 Jun 22, 2005
Race has faded into the background as an issue for most Americans, including progressives.
Posted on Feb 8, 2005
Cornell West could be the very definition of public intellectual.
Posted on Nov 8, 2004
From manslaughter convictions to boxing promotions, spiky-haired Don King has always been a hustler. His latest hustle: Republican pitchman.
Posted on Aug 17, 2004
Many experts are warning that black men are in the midst of a social crisis that Americans seem eager to ignore.
Posted on Aug 6, 2004
Law enforcement conflates rap stars with gang members merely because most of them are young black men.
Posted on Jul 8, 2004
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 Feb 3, 2004
Media activists' preoccupation with corporate ownership does not address the racism that permeates the news.
Posted on Oct 23, 2003
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 Sep 15, 2003
Civil rights groups are still searching for a common thread to unite progressives in a struggle for racial justice.
Posted on Aug 26, 2003
Few Americans know the legacy that racial slavery and Jim Crow apartheid has bequeathed to African-Americans.
Posted on Jul 21, 2003
Once-mighty notions of racial taxonomy fall hard in the three-part PBS series, "Race: The Power of an Illusion."
Posted on Jul 1, 2003
From 1981 to 1993 the South African National Defense force developed bioweapons for the purpose of 'suppressing population growth among blacks.'
Posted on Jun 6, 2003
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 Jan 7, 2003
In the face of growing public opposition and apparent Democratic appeasement, a Congressional anti-war faction has finally taken shape.
Posted on Oct 7, 2002
A recent study authored by the Justice Policy Institute reveals how misguided drug policies cause havoc in black communities
Posted on Sep 10, 2002
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 29, 2002
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 Aug 28, 2002
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 Mar 8, 2002
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 Nov 1, 2000
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 Jul 5, 2000
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 30, 2000
A slew of activists and researchers are bringing the debate over slavery reparations into the mainstream.
Posted on May 9, 2000
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?
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
