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Honkey Payback
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Aaron McCarroll Gallegos Honky, by Yale sociologist Dalton Conley, is a memoir of growing up during the 1970s and 1980s in the projects of ...

Is That Racism on Your Shoe?
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 6:10pm | Type: Magazine Article

Chris Rice A straight-shooting white friend once commented that whenever blacks and whites are together it's like there's a &qu ...

Virtual Hate
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 10:39am | Type: Magazine Article

Stacia M. Brown The Internet has rekindled the zeal and magnified the power of hate groups. What can we do to fight back? ...

You Say You Want a Revolution?
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 10:39am | Type: Magazine Article

Larry Bellinger Resistance Records recruits soldiers for 'racial holy war.' Human rights groups have ...

Debunking Myths
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:27pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tom Montgomery-Fate Ian Frazier's On the Rez Anthropologist Renato Rosaldo introduced the term "impe ...

Undoing Racism in Flint
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:27pm | Type: Magazine Article

Margaret Williamson Michigan city turns dialogue into action. Five hundred community leaders in Flint, Michiga ...

Simply Because We Are Black
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Alice J. Burnette Davis The message of the Illinois shooting: Race matters. Over the July 4 weekend, Benjamin ...

The Grace to Endure
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ted Parks After James Byrd Jr. was brutally murdered by racists in jasper, Texas, the town did not explode. That wasn't an accident, ...

A Pilgrimage to Remember
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Rice Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...

Briefly Noted
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Rice Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...

The Impact of Absence
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:33pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Thirty-five years ago, on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home on the west side of Jackso ...

Why?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Thirty years after King's death, racism continues to rend the country. Thirty years since the ...

Exorcising an American Demon
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:24am | Type: Magazine Article

Bill Wylie-Kellermann Racism is a principality. Racism is more than an expression of an individual attitude; ...

A Time For Action
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Yvonne V. Delk Building a strategy to dismantle racism. Nearly 30 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, &qu ...

The Idol of White Supremacy
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Eugene F. Rivers III Blocking the Prayers of the Church Eugene F. Rivers 3d, a Sojourners contributi ...

In the Image of God
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Bob Hulteen For generations which begat generations, the Bible has been translated into the languages of the people. Soon to follow were c ...

Our Unresolved Dilemma
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Bill Bradley Church burnings and America's quest for racial healing. In American political life, there is ...

Confronting an 'Epidemic of Terror'
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Joe Agne Churches stand against arson attacks. When a Forest Park, Illinois church burned in the ...

Not for the Faint of Heart
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Kentucky Abolitionists in the antebellum South. William Shreve Bailey was a journ ...

Can We Talk
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Mark Pettigrew I AGREE WITH Andrea Ayvazian and Beverly Daniel Tatum when they call for meetings in which participants of all races are e ...

The Ethics of Rhetoric
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Alexander Dante Hurt Dinesh D'Souza and the end of rationality We live in a historic moment which makes ...

Two-Way Streets of Resentment
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julienne Gage Tiesha became nervous as Ann and I took her trick or treating through Columbia Heights. "I hope they don't shoot ...

Crossing the Racial Divide
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis After the 1992 riots following the first Rodney King verdict, I joined a delegation of international church leaders to Los Ang ...

Racism in Academic Robes
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis When I first heard about The Bell Curve, the new book by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein, I remembered an incid ...