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America On Trialnew

Shoshone tribes hauled the U.S. before a United Nations panel and won.
Reno News & Review  |  Dennis Myers  |  03-30-2006  |  Race & Class

White Like Menew

Reporter James Carlson gets "embedded" with the National Socialist Movement and learns that Nazis like the Dave Matthews Band too.
Orlando Weekly  |  James Carlson  |  03-02-2006  |  Race & Class

The Lonesome Deathnew

The notion persists that when a black person dies in a scuffle with a white person or authority, he or she must somehow be to blame.
L.A. Weekly  |  Judith Lewis  |  02-23-2006  |  Race & Class

Hostile Environmentnew

Ray Coleman and other black ex-employees accuse the Illinois Department of Natural Resources of discrimination.
Illinois Times  |  R.L. Nave  |  02-21-2006  |  Race & Class

Fall of the Fourth Reichnew

Cleveland's Aryan barbarian oversees the collapse of a neo-Nazi powerhouse.
Cleveland Scene  |  Lisa Rab  |  02-21-2006  |  Race & Class

Fighting the Powernew

Former Black Panthers in Baltimore take a look back at the party's past.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Christina Royster-Hemby  |  02-10-2006  |  Race & Class

Racial Nightmares Haunt the Southnew

For most blacks, a society in which race doesn't hold them back is still a distant goal -- all things are not equal by a long shot.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  John Sugg  |  02-02-2006  |  Race & Class

New York's Angry, Armed Mohawksnew

The Seneca have been signing new treaties and settling land claims even as the Mohawk have become more reclusive, enforcing old treaties and expanding land claims.
New York Press  |  Brad Lockwood  |  02-02-2006  |  Race & Class

Fighting the Powernew

The history of the Black Panther party in Baltimore is long and turbulent.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Christina Royster-Hemby  |  02-01-2006  |  Race & Class

Memoirs of a Klansman

Civil Rights hero Stetson Kennedy is challenged about the truth of his history.
Folio Weekly  |  Susan Cooper Eastman  |  01-31-2006  |  Race & Class

What's Up, Hip-Hop Doc?new

Michael Eric Dyson has achieved pop-star status since his public thrashing of Bill Cosby, but recent fame has made the professor a controversial figure in his own right.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Kia Gregory  |  01-30-2006  |  Race & Class

The Meaning of Frank Wilkinson

Frank Wilkinson wasn’t the first man to stare down Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, but he was the last man to go to jail for trying.
Random Lengths News  |  Lionel Rolfe  |  01-19-2006  |  Race & Class

Wisdom of the Ancestorsnew

A Hopi leader fought a lonely battle to stop a mining company from stealing water that helped build Phoenix. He succeeded--finally.
Phoenix New Times  |  John Dougherty  |  12-09-2005  |  Race & Class

Documentarian Tells the Untold Story of Emmett Louis Tillnew

Keith Beauchamp has produced a documentary that chronicles the events leading up to and after Emmett Louis Till’s murder. It is because of this documentary that the 1955 case was reopened last year.
Jackson Free Press  |  Lea Thomas  |  12-01-2005  |  Race & Class

The Day That Emmett Diednew

It was Saturday night, Aug. 27, 1955, when a group of men in Mississippi beat, tortured and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till for whistling at a white woman. Lea Thomas revisits the events of his last day.
Jackson Free Press  |  Lea Thomas  |  12-01-2005  |  Race & Class

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