 That
Boob Job
Janet's flash of flesh…
Black Love Day…
Other matters of the heart…
Paul Robeson stamp…
Marcus Dixon update… [more]
 Jailed
for Teenage Sex?
A Black teen-ager in Georgia serves a ten-year sentence for consensual
sex with a White girl…Sounding off on Strom Thurmond…McKinney
Set to Run Again…The No Child Left Behind Act (or is that
the Y'all Children Kiss My Behind Act?)…Barbara Jordan Fellowship…
[more]
 Tricky
Voting Machines
…And other top stories, including Shoshana Jones…
the Black Heroes of 9/11… CostofWar.Org… Mumia on Imperialism…
and the documentaries "Un-covered" and "Unpre-cedented"…
[more]
The Rites (and Wrongs)
of Ancestral Return
 As
thousands of New Yorkers marched to the sound of spiritual drumming,
the remains of New York City's first Blacks were re-interred on
Oct. 4 in the African Burial Ground, now an historical landmark,
in Lower Manhattan. The official re-interment, at the end of a week-long,
five city journey for the remains… [more]
The Oh Brother Issue
In the year of LeBron James, Jayson Blair, Ruben
Studdard and Kobe Bryant (not to mention 50  Cent),
we present to you Black male narratives and voices not framed by
corporate interests, media, the military or the prison-industrial
complex. We are proud to present the Oh Brother Issue, guest edited
by Mark Anthony Neal, who offers his own confessions
of a thugniggaintel-lectual and an appreciation of Gregory
Hines.
 '50
Cent: It's All in the Game,' by Harry Amana and 'From
Sell-Out to Playa-Hater,' by John L. Jackson, Jr.
'The Black Man's White Man
Fantasies,' By David Ikard
Two Memoirs: 'Tidewater
Geechee' by Lawrence Jackson and 'Seeing
Double' by William Jelani Cobb.
Affirmative Action
 The
Supreme Court decision, upholding affirmative action programs at
the University of Michigan Law School, is a victory but not a simple
one. Read and listen to coverage of the decision on Democracy
Now!
From War, to Peace
and Justice
 These
are perilous times. The Bush administration is using its unbridled
power to threaten and bully nations around the world with unmatched
military might, to assault our civil liberties and civil rights,
and to eviscerate funding and resources for essential human needs,
including affordable housing, health care, education, mass transit,
childcare, food… [more]
The (Il-)logic of Preemptive Strikes
 It
happened in Washington, DC's Dupont Circle. Riding to work on snow-filled
and icy streets I stopped at a red light in the traffic circle.
I allowed enough space between my car and the car immediately in
front of me just to be on the safe side. I suddenly realized that
the person in the car behind me was yelling and honking… [more]
 Black
Voices on War and Peace
Most African-Americans are opposed to the war in Iraq, yet we are
on the frontlines, and were among the first killed, wounded or captured.
Read these voices on war and peace… [more]
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