Elon James White, Huffington Post. June 27, 2009. The next time you talk to a Black person you can feel comfortable in knowing that you have no clue what they think or feel based on their skin color.
Christopher Deis, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. The right-wing media have crafted an absurd -- and dangerous -- political narrative of white male oppression, exclusion and victimization.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 22, 2009. Despite Steele's promise that the GOP will stop looking backward he revisits the 2008 election with some stunning language.
Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, New America Media. May 11, 2009. Whether conservative or moderate, Republicans are mired in outmoded myths about America.
Channing Kennedy, RaceWire. April 30, 2009. After Obama's election, our national conversation on race opened up and flourished. I'm lying! The same crap kept happening as has always happened.
Roberto Lovato, New America Media. March 3, 2009. The boycott comes at the worst possible time for a planet facing rapidly increasing levels of recession-inspired racism, xenophobia and hatred.
Tim Wise, CounterPunch. March 2, 2009. Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder blamed personal cowardice for our racial divide, rather than institutionalized inequities.
Janine Jackson, FAIR. February 28, 2009. The elite white press corps has a myopic understanding of how racial inequality works. Their coverage has been squirm-inducing so far.
Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org. February 21, 2009. The quality of life for many young people appears even more fragile in the United States in this time of political, economic and social crisis.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2009. As the first African American leading the DOJ, Holder called for a national dialogue on race -- something the U.S. has generally avoided.
Jesse Reynolds, AlterNet. February 12, 2009. 200 years after Charles Darwin was born, his work is being used to justify racism and genetically design children.
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Media and Technology. February 9, 2009. Despite Obama's historic election, FOX continues to smear the President and black America with racist rhetoric.
Carol Jenkins, The Women's Media Center. January 22, 2009. The American flag belongs to all of us now. My granddaughter, a biracial child, will grow up a part of this country's narrative, not the subtext.
Myra Mendible, American Sexuality Magazine. January 6, 2009. Booty. Rump. Bubble butt. Whatever the term, big backsides -- and people's reactions to them -- tell us a lot about American culture.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 20, 2008. A.C. Thompson discusses his Nation report on the men who roamed New Orleans shooting African Americans. (With full text of Thompson's article).
Margot Friedman, Women's Media Center. December 9, 2008. NBC has added another white, male moderator to Meet the Press, in spite of evidence that women and people of color can boost ratings.
Clay Cane, The Advocate. November 22, 2008. My great-great-grandmother was born a slave in Virginia. Should I not have the right to marry, just like my grandmother, simply because I am gay?
Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus. November 19, 2008. The election of Barack Obama has been heralded as proof that the United States has finally broken through the racial barrier.
Amy Goodman, Truthdig. November 13, 2008. On Inauguration Day, Obama could outlaw torture. It would be a tribute to those slaves who built his new home, the White House.
Dom Apollon, ColorLines RaceWire AlterNet: PEEK. November 12, 2008. To all the conservatives saying that racism is now dead: please stop. Please ... stop. Seriously, what you're doing is embarrassing.