Race
Beyond the Civil Rights Industry
Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.
The Wound and the Dream
In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.
Identity Politics
Forced deportations threaten to turn the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict into ethnic war.
Du Bois for the 1990s
William Julius Wilson has provided a searing analysis of inner-city collapse. Can we rise to his challenge?
Race, Genes, and IQ
Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.
Race, Class, and the Democrats
A top White House pollster has written an apology for Clinton’s presidency. He had lots of work to do.
Beyond the Nationalism of Fools
We need an intellectually serious program of cooperative and engaged research, focused on the basic life conditions of Black Americans.
The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals, Part 2
A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.
The Power of Rights
The only thing the disenfranchised need as badly as rights is absolute clear-sightedness about power.
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