On AlterNet: african american
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "african american"
Salim Muwakkil, In These Times. September 18, 2009.
Barack Obama navigates a world where color still matters.
Michael Eric Dyson, Basic Books. August 11, 2009.
The author argues in his book excerpt that a "great deal of the nation’s gender problem has to do with how men think about women."
Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. July 11, 2009.
The stress of living in a white-dominated society makes African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts.
Sherry Wolf, CounterPunch. November 18, 2008.
Institutionalized homophobia in American society is definitely a white monopoly.
Staff, Al Jazeera AlterNet: Election 2008. November 6, 2008.
How Obama represents a shift in attitudes on race and gender in America.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. November 2, 2008.
With all the talk of the supposed 'Bradley Effect,' the media have missed the bigger story.
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. September 10, 2008.
The utterly pervasive racism of FOX News.
Tarso Luís Ramos, ColorLines. June 8, 2007.
A recent deluge of news stories claim that Latinos are "ethnically cleansing" their African American neighbors in southern California.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. March 31, 2007.
If you're a pot smoking African-American or Hispanic in New York City, chances are you and the NYPD are on a first-name basis.
