ELIMINATING `BALKANIZED’ COLLEGE PROGRAMS
Ward Connerly, the Sacramento crusader against affirmative action, has turned his sights on a new target: Ethnic studies. And that's not all. He's also suspicious of women's studies, gay and...
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KEEPING COUNT
After a year of pondering America's racial dilemma President Clinton's Initiative on Race hasn't come up with many surprises, except one, its own naivete about the complexities of race. "We...
SADLY, THERE’S STILL PLENTY OF HATE TO GO AROUND
I have at least one cranky reader who is highly annoyed with news coverage of the recent lynching-by-dragging of a black man in Jasper, Texas. We in the media are...
BEDTIME STORIES
So what's so funny about sex? The question has haunted me for weeks. First there was the Monica Lewinsky story. Have you tried having a serious discussion with colleagues about...
RACE CLOUDS DEATH PENALTY FAIRNESS
A team of Iowa researchers analyzed a decade of Philadelphia murders to compare the sentences blacks and whites received for the same or similar crimes. Guess what they found? No...
EXTENDING AN OLIVE BRANCH (WITH PITS) TO JUSTICE THOMAS
Memphis Judge D'Army Bailey admits it. He wanted to make some news. He wound up making more news than he expected. As an organizer of this summer's convention of the...
FULL DISCLOSURE
At Kramerbooks & Afterwords, a popular combination bookstore, restaurant and coffeehouse in Washington's trendy DuPont Circle neighborhood, the waiters are wearing new black T-shirts that say in white letters on...
`BULWORTH’: PARTLY BULL, PARTLY WORTH IT
Now that I have seen "Bulworth," I wish to thank all of my friends and neighbors who warned me against it. My liberal friends warned me that this comedy, which...
CHILDPROOF SCHOOLS
Perhaps we can install metal detectors in suburban schools. Just a suggestion. Remember how shocked many of us felt when metal detectors began to appear in big-city high schools in...
WHERE THE NAACP NEEDS TO GO NOW
"This is not your father's NAACP." Thus said Julian Bond last weekend as he presided over his first board meeting as national chairman of the National Association for the Advancement...