WHEN `WHITES ONLY’ HELPS DIVERSITY
If you live long enough, my grandmothers used to say, you see life begin to come full circle. That thought came to mind as I learned recently about Alabama's "whites-only"...
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TALKIN’ CHEAP
George W. Bush has found his Sister Souljah. It is the Republican Congress. You may remember how Bill Clinton used the original Sister Souljah to his political advantage in the...
SEN. TORTOISE AWAKENS THE HARE
Bill Bradley's challenge to Al Gore for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination suddenly has turned into a hare-and-tortoise story, except this time the hare woke up. You may recall how,...
FEELING BRADLEY’S HEAT, GORE WANTS TO DEBATE HIM
His campaign bloated with high-priced consultants and high rents, Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday tried to shake up his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination by announcing that he...
FACING THE BIG TEST
If the college-bound student in your house suddenly seems moody, irritable, sleepless, listless and more nervous than usual, it may be because of a condition peculiar to the American teen....
MANHOOD:
These are confusing times for guys. Today you hear a lot about how guys, young and old are in "crisis." We are "angry white men" or "militant blacks." We are...
ON RACE AND POLITICS: THE GOOD NEWS
It was the headline that launched a thousand telephone calls and e-mails. Well, not quite. But it seemed like that many to E.R. Shipp, ombudsman for the Washington Post, as...
BRIDGING THE GAP WITH BILL GATES
If Microsoft chairman and co-founder Bill Gates thinks he can buy my admiration by pledging a billion dollars to minority scholarships, he's right, not just because it is generous but...
WHEN DRUG TIPSTERS SNITCH ON MOM AND DAD
If the movement to legalize medical marijuana needs a poster family, here it is. They live in Takoma Park, a mostly middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C. The mother, a lawyer,...
A MODERN, MULTICOLOR LOVE STORY
When I was asked if I wanted to watch a TV documentary about an interracial family, I was hesitant. For one thing, I heard the documentary was 10 hours long....