Morehouse College's Gay Travesty
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This week the historically black college banned crossdressing. Elizabeth Gates on why the decision disgraces a school that once groomed iconoclasts like Spike Lee and Martin Luther King.
Rush the Race-Baiter
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Limbaugh's fans say unfair charges of racism blocked his bid to become an NFL owner. Could be-but why don't they care when he's the one doing the race-baiting?
Carter's Charge Is a Distraction
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Obama defenders who see racism behind the attacks may be well-intentioned. But Obama has bigger fish to fry-and the country has come further than you think.
NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois and other members at the 20th-annual convention in 1929.
A College, a Gun—and a Big Injustice
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
After a Morehouse College student shot a classmate three times, he was sentenced to... graduation. Inside an outrageous case that shows that the old-boys network is color-blind.
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