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What Henry Louis Gates Got Wrong in His NYTimes Slavery Op-ed

Barbara Ransby, ColorLines RaceWire. May 5, 2010.

The celebrity academic's New York Times editorial is not only a disservice to history, it comes at exactly the wrong time in our discourse on race.

Republican Congresswoman: GOP Needs a "Great White Hope"

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. August 27, 2009.

What decade is this again?

Is Glenn Beck Finished?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. August 24, 2009.

A Color of Change campaign has cost Beck's show 36 advertisers so far. Will Fox decide he isn't worth it?

Why Are Cops Tasering Grandmothers, Pregnant Women and Kids?

Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 17, 2009.

Police officers are brutalizing innocent civilians with accelerating lunacy. How did this happen? How can we make it stop?

The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing

Leslie Savan, TheNation.com. August 3, 2009.

Watching the GOP morph into the National Association for the Advancement of White People should give us all hope, not despair.

Why Can't We Have a Smart Conversation About Race?

Christopher Deis, AlterNet. August 3, 2009.

We live in an allegedly "colorblind" society, making it even harder to have a truly productive discourse about race.

What if Henry Louis Gates Were Not an Acclaimed Professor?

Raj Jayadev, New America Media. July 29, 2009.

Tomorrow's White House happy hour is an uncommon ending to a common occurrence –- a man of color citing racial profiling after an arrest.

Gates, Crowley To Join Obama For Beers

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post July 27, 2009.

Obama Comes Out Swinging at Cynical GOP on Health Care, Addresses Race Issues in Prof. Gates Arrest

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. July 23, 2009.

At Wednesday's press conference, Obama said the "stars are aligned" for health reform and tackled the racial injustice typified by prof's arrest.

What Makes the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. So Tragic

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.com. July 22, 2009.

In a moment of overzealous policing, an officer in Cambridge handcuffed and detain a living embodiment of post-racial possibility.

Henry Louis Gates, Troy Davis, and Race in the 21st Century

Amy Goodman, July 22, 2009.

W.E.B. Du Bois' color line has shifted -- but it hasn't been erased.