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Yet it seems as if the black community, as represented by Harvard professor Cornel West, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Benjamin Chavis, Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson, is preoccupied with institutional...
His remarks last week sent another shudder through a nation already coping--or more precisely, failing to cope--with the renewed divisions triggered by the Simpson verdict. And they added to the dilemma of black leaders who for weeks have been wrestling with the decision of whether to march. Representatives...
It is not that Farrakhan and his followers pose any serious threat to Jewish lives or influence. The real danger of Farrakhan's anti-Semitic fulminations is that they divert blacks from their real enemies--in much the same way that right-wing Republicans like Pat Buchanan blame immigrants and...
The fact that hundreds of thousands of black men--and women--are rallying behind this pair of demagogues is a testament to the sorry state of race relations and the dearth of first-rate leadership on either side of the racial divide that have been appallingly evident in the wake...
As the title suggests, The F-Word, compiled by Jesse Sheidlower, a reference-book editor at Random House, and prefaced with a playful essay by humor writer Roy Blount Jr., is a more or less scholarly lexicon devoted solely to all the unimaginable variations and permutations of what is surely...