Stories by Kai Wright
Kai Wright is a freelance journalist in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.
How the mortgage industry stole black America's hard-won wealth.
Posted on Jun 30, 2008
Since the civil rights movement's close, blacks in particular have made no progress on what may be the most important measure of social well-being: living to see old age.
Posted on Jun 5, 2007
Is racism slowly killing black Americans -- physically as well as systemically?
Posted on May 24, 2006
If you've paid passing attention to the news about gay men and our sex lives in the last year, you'd think we're all depraved, barebacking, bug-chasers. But that's not actually what's killing us.
Posted on Jan 12, 2006
Black and Latino children are paying the price for the mismanagement that has many public housing projects saturated in pesticides and literally crawling with rats.
Posted on May 3, 2005
The gay rights movement has sacrificed sexual pluralism on the altar of civil rights. While legal equality is a worthy goal, it's also a goal that will remain elusive as long as we opt out of the sex wars.
Posted on Apr 1, 2005
Many progressive black voters entered this election in a jubilant mood, with increased engagement and high turnout in key states. But their effect was often countered by new evangelical voters – some of whom were African American.
Posted on Nov 5, 2004
Sarah Jones is making a name for herself as heir to the feminist performance-art thrones of Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg, while her romance with unvarnished urbanity puts her closer akin to Spike Lee and Richard Pryor.
Posted on Jun 1, 2004
Queer people of color have been reluctant to engage the in the gay civil rights movement's marriage battle. That's because we don't see what's in it for us.
Posted on May 21, 2004
