EDITORIAL
Losing the raceThe real message for African Americans from the New Haven firefighters case (Ricci v. DeStefano, et. al.) is that it is time to become more aggressively competitive. Be aware that an action favoring blacks is perforce an inconvenience to others. If remedial action is generally considered to be unfair to whites, then it will harm public support for affirmative action. More » |
OPINION
Testing is key to curbing AIDS among blacksBlacks are more likely than other racial and ethnic groups to have been tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but will need to be examined at much higher rates in order to curb the devastation the epidemic is having on African Americans. More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The power of Michael's words, and of our words about MichaelToday, I can't stop thinking about Paul Robeson dying in exile, and how most of the black community and black media essentially abandoned him when a racist media told us that he was a bad, bad man - a communist. More » |
