IMPROVING BLACK AMERICA
Many civil-rights leaders are observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year with rallies to lambaste hate crimes and other terrible things that white people have done to black people....
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RAINBOW CABINET
It may be hard to believe but it's time to face facts: George W. Bush really does support affirmative action. He just doesn't quite want to admit it. For example,...
GIVE JOHN ASHCROFT THE GRILLING HE GAVE OTHERS
Now that George W. Bush has nominated Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.) to be U.S. attorney general, it would not be inappropriate for his fellow senators to treat him as fairly...
RECIPE FOR REPUBLICANS: MAKE GOP LESS SCARY
Republicans should not be daunted by the way blacks, Hispanics and Asians largely spurned their ticket in the recent elections, says one major newsmaker. Quite the opposite, he says, the...
TURNING `EQUAL PROTECTION’ UPSIDE DOWN
Al Gore sounded so gracious. Even though he did not agree with it, he said he would abide by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that virtually handed the presidential election...
HILLARY: MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
A friendly strategic memo to Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton: First of all, congratulations. The nay-sayers said you couldn't just move into New York be elected to the Senate. You would...
THE UNRAVELING OF LIFE’S MINI-DRAMAS THROUGH POETRY
America lost a beautiful chip in its vast cultural mosaic with the death of Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks died Dec. 3 at age 83 in Chicago. She was the first African-American...
`JUST SAY NO’ LIKE TELLING DEPRESSED TO `HAVE A NICE DAY’
We didn't need any more dramatic examples of how drug addiction should be treated as a health issue, not just a criminal issue, but Robert Downey Jr. has given it...
FORGOTTEN FIGURE IN ELECTION
Amid all the chanting, cursing, arguing and tooth-gnashing in the Florida voting fiasco, one person keeps getting lost. That person is the voter. We Americans usually think the voter is...
WHAT BUSH AND GORE ARE REALLY SAYING
To help readers separate the wheat from the chaff about Florida chads, I humbly submit the following translations of recent televised addresses to the nation by the two major presidential...