___+ Books
"Jackie Robinson: A Biography" By Arnold Rampersad
Reviewed by Charles Taylor. A serious, competent -- but ultimately numbing -- biography of the man who broke baseball's color line. (10/21/97)
"Soulkiss" By Jabari Asim
A complex, erotic first novel about a girl's odyssey toward adulthood in small-town Georgia. (01/08/97)
Old school noir By Marc Gerald
My search for African-American noir's lost legacy. (07/03/97)
Does a black man have to be black? By David Talbot
Eddy L. Harris has spent years trying to figure out what makes him black, and what makes him an American. (06/01/97)
The myth of Muhammad By Gary Kamiya
The reality of the 20th century's most famous athlete is inspiring enough. Why turn him into a theology? (04/11/96)
Jamaica Kincaid By Dwight Garner
The Salon Interview. (05/96)
___+ Entertainment
"Eryka Badu Live" By Michelle Goldberg
Erykah Badu may never be as haunting as Billie Holiday, but Holiday never had the perfect comic timing Badu reveals on "Live." (12/02/97)
Is a beautiful dance in itself enough? By Richard Covington
Choreographer Bill T. Jones has worn the label "black, homosexual and HIV positive" so long he's given up resenting it. (03/28/97)
___+ Mothers Who Think
Let's talk about race By Sallie Tisdale
Should the U.S. apologize for slavery? Only if we ever want to have a real conversation about racism. (01/22/98)
Rain on the parade By Jeffrey Obser
The Million Youth March was supposed to empower and uplift young African-Americans. So how did it become a political circus starring adults? (09/10/98)
Not waiting to inhale By Dawn MacKeen
Joycelyn Elders on why teens are going up in smoke. (04/09/98)
Tale of a sky-blue dress By Thylias Moss
School girl: I thought all girls -- regardless of color -- were heading toward vast opportunities. Then I learned the truth. (10/12/98)
Reality bites By Karen Grigsby Bates
By making the irrelevant Mike Tyson case a big PR issue, NOW has demonstrated once again that it is run by imperious and out-of-touch white women. (07/30/98)
Spanking, a black mother's view By Karen Grigsby Bates
The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums. (10/07/98)
___+ Newsreal
Why liberals can't think straight about race By Jim Sleeper
The hyper race-consciousness of liberals is abetting racism, not overcoming it. (18/08/97)
Buying false racial peace By Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper attacks the unholy alliance of liberals and conservatives that has propped up a regime of racial preferences. (05/05/98)
How to unify the country: Ten-HUT! By Samuel Freedman
Universal military service may be the only way to heal the wounds of a country fractured by race and class. (11/19/96)
The racial promise By Andres Tapia and Rodolpho Carrasco
Promise Keepers could heal the racial split within the evangelical church. (10/09/97)
It's class, stupid! By Richard Rodriguez
With affirmative action being rolled up, it's time we start recognizing the real dividing line in American society. (11/10/97)
A dimished view of manhood By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Reggie White's remarks that homosexuality is a sin reflect a widespread fear of gays in the black community. (04/06/98)
