Love-hate relationships with `documentaries’
When first I heard that filmmaker Robert Greenwald had made a documentary exposing Fox News Channel's conservative bias, two words came to my mind: Why bother? It is hardly breaking...
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Fighting class, culture wars– for a big loss
How would Jesus vote? That appears to be the great unspoken question as President Bush and Sen. John Kerry engage in a culture war for the hearts and minds of...
NAACP vs. GOP: Preaching to the choir
Leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sounded outraged that President Bush stiffed their invitation to speak at their annual convention, which runs through Thursday in...
Candidates never have to say `I’m sorry’
What do President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards have in common besides their fat wallets? Not one of them wants to admit that...
Cosby’s `deal’ to quell poverty cuts both ways
My 96-year-old grandma disagrees with me, but I think Bill Cosby was right when he recently complained--famously and emotionally, if not quite grammatically--that "the lower-economic people are not holding up...
At colleges, immigrants are `minorities’ too
Smiles turned to tightened jaws at the most recent reunion of Harvard University's black alumni. The mood shift, as reported recently in The New York Times, occurred when two very...
40 years of opportunities
If you blinked, you might have missed the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Everybody was so busily getting ready for the 4th of July weekend, I...
The `no-sex’ scandal
An injustice of sorts has been committed upon Jack Ryan. The Illinois Republican ex-candidate for the U.S. Senate may be the first politician to be brought down by a sex...
Movements to muzzle Michael Moore backfire
When a TV reporter asked filmmaker Michael Moore whether his controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" was only "preaching to the choir," Moore's response was right on point: "Well," he said, "it's...
Freedom Summer of ’64
Some people say unsolved civil rights-era murder cases should be left alone. The quest for long-delayed justice, they say, is not worth the reopening of those old social wounds. For...