September 2009
57 posts
A.I.'s Memphis Blues →
Allen Iverson’s dwindling status in the NBA
After lackluster stats in Detroit, Allen Iverson will have to prove that his last season was just a fluke. Will his route to a ring…
Obama's Right Mistake →
Obama’s Right Mistake
If everybody is mad at the president he must be doing all the right wrong things.
lawrence.bobo
If everybody is mad at the…
Why Health Care is Organized Crime →
Why Health Care is Organized Crime
The real reason why health care reform has stalled is because too many people are getting rich.
Natalie.Hopkinson
August 2009
70 posts
Obama Eulogizes Ted Kennedy →
Kennedy Funeral
President calls late senator the ‘soul of the Democratic Party.’
associated.press
President Obama and three former presidents…
BOOK EXCERPT: Dancing in the Dark →
Morris Dickstein’s ‘Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression’
The first of three selected passages from author Morris Dickstein’s cultural history of the…
Waiting for Charity in New Orleans →
What Will Happen to New Orleans’ Charity Hospital?
Charity Hospital was the go-to medical facility for the city’s poor and now, when they need it most, it’s gone.
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Black and Coaching in the Ivy League →
Black and Coaching in the Ivy League
Tom Williams will soon begin his first season as head football coach at Yale. What the NCAA can learn from the Ivys about diversity.
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Who Will Run New Orleans? →
The 2010 New Orleans Mayoral Elections: Who Will Take the Reins?
Its 2010 mayoral elections are on the horizon. Will an A-list celebrity or a low-profile politician take the…
Edward M. Kennedy: Civil Rights Champion →
Edward M Kennedy: Civil Rights Champion
The Massachusetts senator died Tuesday at the age of 77, leaving behind a moral legacy in the fight for civil rights.
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Take Me Back to New Orleans →
Take Me Back to New Orleans
Before the levees broke there was a city of nostalgia and deep longing. Katrina just multiplied the grief. Tenfold.
teresa.wiltz
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Teddy the Radical →
Sen. Edward Kennedy believed in black political power.
Sen. Kennedy was a white liberal who believed in black power.
kenneth.cooper
Sen. Kennedy…
A Pill a Day to Keep HIV Away? →
PrEP Vaccine: A Pill a Day to Keep HIV Away?
Even if the method works, can it do more harm than good?
linda.villarosa
Results are due soon from…
Inglourious Masterpiece →
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Bastards
How Quentin Tarantino won the war.
nicholas.charles
How Quentin Tarantino won the war.
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The First Black Prez →
Tenor Saxophonist Lester Young: The First Black President
Tenor saxophonist Lester Young may not have won any electoral votes, but Young’s dynamic new approach to the saxophone…
Ted Kennedy Is Dead at 77 →
Ted Kennedy Dies at 77
Influential senator and civil rights champion succumbs to cancer.
washington.post
One of the most powerful and influential…
Is There a Science to Beauty? →
Caster Semenya: Is There a Science to Beauty?
The gender issue surrounding Caster Semenya seems to directly question race and beauty. Who gets to set the standards?
To Love B. Scott →
Loving Gender-Bending Internet Personality B. Scott
Gender-bending Internet personality B. Scott, with his lengthy eyelashes, high cheekbones and long hair (usually his own,…
Semenya's Race and Sex Struggle →
Caster Semenya’s Race and Sex Struggle
Results of the gender investigation aside, Caster Semenya’s humanity has already been sacrificed to Western culture’s desperate,…
Keeping St. Bernard Parish White →
How White Residents are Keeping Blacks Out of St. Bernard Parish
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, affordable public housing still isn’t available for many New Orleans…
Mr. President, While You Were Out →
What Obama Needs To Do After Martha’s Vineyard
Republicans tried to kill health care. (P.S., see governors, Virginia and New Jersey.)
tsamuel
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