WORKING TOGETHER TO SAVE BOSTON’S PROMISING YOUTH
When the Rev. Eugene Rivers, who left the mean streets of his poor Philadelphia neighborhood to go to Harvard, returned to the streets in Boston's rough Dorchester neighborhood as a...
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WHAT GAYS AND BLACKS HAVE IN COMMON
When Anne Heche said on the Oprah Winfrey Show that she was not a lesbian before she met Ellen DeGeneres, the remark made Oprah's eyebrows arch. Like many of us,...
CALLING AL SHARPTON’S BLUFF
Al Sharpton dared Steven Pagones to "sue us." What happened next offers a lesson to anyone who lets their mouth write checks that their evidence can't cash. Sharpton's challenge came...
NEW STEPS IN THE OLD FLAG-BURNING DANCE
Take your places, everyone. It is time for our perennial flag dance again. Or, more accurately, our flag-burning dance. Ever since the Supreme Court overturned an existing federal ban in...
TALKING–AND TALKING!–WITH CLINTON ABOUT RACE
"We're just getting warmed up," President Clinton moaned as public television host Jim Lehrer said it was time to wrap up the third and final forum of the president's year-long...
MODERN SYMBOLISM
Modern science threatens to destroy one of our nation's most honored and cherished traditions. Maybe it's about time. I am talking about the Tomb of the Unknowns. Thanks to new...
SUDDENLY DRUDGE DOESN’T LOOK SO BAD
There was nothing subtle about the headline in the Drudge Report: "Big media blows it: CNN/Time retracts nerve gas story." Was Matt Drudge, editor and sole proprietor of the Drudge...
GET OFF YOUR, UH, COUCH, AMERICA!
I admit it. When someone asks me what I think about ignorance and apathy, my first impulse is to respond with the old gag line, "I don't know and I...
BIASED BUSINESSES ARE TUNING OUT BLACK RADIO
Question: When would merchants rather not have so many customers? Answer: When the customers are not white. It sounds stupid, but that's the charge black and Hispanic broadcasters have been...
`LIBERAL MEDIA?’ NOT BY THESE NUMBERS
What? The major media? Too conservative? Now, there's a point of view you don't hear very often these days. Voices ranging from Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) to Rush Limbaugh, the...