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Stories by Margaret Kimberly

Margaret Kimberley is a freelance writer living in New York City. She also maintains the Freedom Rider blog.

How the Right Uses People of Color to Foster Racism

White supremacy, sensing the need to repackage itself for consumption in polite company, partially fills the demand for racist bile by outsourcing to mercenary writers of color.
Posted on Apr 4, 2007, Source: Black Agenda Report

Civil War in America

We need a movement -- one that will loudly proclaim our refusal to go along with right-wing fantasies of time travel to the 1950s.
Posted on Mar 17, 2006, Source: The Black Commentator

How A Swann Became An Ugly Duckling

Lynn Swann reminds us that if unqualified white people can run for office and win, unqualified black people can too. But that doesn't mean we should vote for them.
Posted on Jan 12, 2006, Source: The Black Commentator

Imus, Andy, and Irish-Americans

Why is a white television commentator telling black people what to call themselves?
Posted on Nov 10, 2005, Source: The Black Commentator

A Bitter Pill for Black Hearts

A drug recently approved to treat African-American heart disease seems to be just another case of the pharmaceutical industry's endless search for profits.
Posted on Jun 28, 2005, Source: The Black Commentator

An Apology, Forty Years Overdue

Kentucky newspapers apologize, forty years late, for the way they deliberately ignored the entire civil rights movement.
Posted on Jul 27, 2004, Source: The Black Commentator

The Truth About Tulia

Forty-six innocent people were convicted of drug-dealing based on the testimony of one crooked cop.
Posted on Oct 10, 2003, Source: The Black Commentator