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It seemed so long ago when Allen Iverson came from the South to save my racially polarized hometown from basketball ruin. But how could this barely six foot, barely 165-pound phenom be entrusted with such responsibility? He was racial polarization incarnate. At 17, he was involved in a brawl in a bowling alley that allegedly Read More

(This was September 13, 2001, by the way.) Frank Schaeffer, the son of influential Christian conservative Francis Schaeffer, isn’t surprised. “When Senator Obama’s preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association,” he wrote in a column for the Huffington Post. “But when my late father — Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer — denounced America Read More

Obama’s big speech in Philadelphia zoomed in and out with brave deftness and surprising candor. He denounced Rev. Wright’s comments but not Rev. Wright. He talked about his white grandmother’s casual racism. He touched on America’s sad racial history (in great detail), but said that the country was not “irrevocably tied to it.” And maybe Read More

Barack Obama and Reverend Wright. Via Ben Smith: Barack Obama will give a major speech on “the larger issue of race in this campaign,” he told reporters in Monaca, PA just now. He was pressed there, as he has been at recent appearances, on statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. “I am going to Read More

Burns, Simon, Pelecanos. Um, how many ways does this essay fall into our bailiwick? So how come we missed it? David Simon, Ed Burns, and George Pelecanos launched a salvo at America’s misbegotten drug policy, penning an essay in Time asking people serving on juries to vote to acquit any suspect charged with a nonviolent Read More

There are few discussions more incendiary and polarizing for the Black community than ones surrounding the word “nigger.” You should know, before reading forward, that this article will use the word “nigger” as opposed to the phrase, “the N word,” in many of its sentences. If this will incite your anger or heighten your discomfort, Read More

Sooner Haven in Oklahoma City.* Kim Henderson and Corean Brothers are good friends who live in Sooner Haven, housing projects plopped into northeast Oklahoma City. They are — for lack of a better adjective — amazing. Kim Henderson was the rare young woman in her world who made it to her twenties with no children. Read More
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