by From Our Readers | Mar 13, 2008 | News
I write regarding your cover story, "Hip-Hop Happening" (March 6, 2008). The so-called "hip-hop" genre of music, which a genuinely accomplished musician, Wynton Marsalis, and a noted journalist and music critic, Stanley Crouch, have labeled...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 14, 2008 | News
Five years after he was granted political asylum by the U.S. government, Richard Sitcha was deported last month to his homeland of Cameroon, leaving his friends anxious about his safety.Sitcha had fled Cameroon, where government abuses are well documented, in 2001 and...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 13, 2008 | News
You hear that what's missing for the Republicans in this presidential election is another Reagan—someone who can evoke the spirit of the Gipper.But does the average American need another Reagan? That average voter is drowning in a sea of problems whose...
by Salim Muwakkil | Feb 21, 2008 | News
How can racism still be a problem if so many white Americans are willing to support Sen. Barack Obama for president? This rhetorical question worries some analysts, who warn that Obama's prominence, ironically, could set back the struggle for racial equality. They...
by Natalia Muñoz | Mar 13, 2008 | News
Diversity is in danger when a presidential candidate's middle name can't be uttered nor a picture of him wearing traditional Somali clothes shown without these incidents being framed by Barack Obama as personal attacks.The Obama campaign has been successful in...
