The dark side rises: Aurora
and the new political conversation
“In the white-hot glare of this presidential campaign year, neither Democrats nor Republicans may want to engage over gun control (for completely different reasons), but now they may not have a choice. There's not nearly enough time to get away from it. The Century 16 theater killings are likely to provoke the law of unintended consequences, laying the groundwork for a new political conversation where there really wasn’t one before.”
NAACP's MLK Day mission statement: 'Expanding the electorate'
The rise and rise of Rev. Al Sharpton
“With a forthright style cultivated in the pulpit and on the street, Sharpton has done one of the main things that modern television demands: carved out a telegenic personality, establishing a singular identity not to be confused with anyone else. … Much to their dismay, old-guard mainstream journalists face a paradigm shift of which Sharpton's rise is but a leading indicator: the fact that minority voices are finally starting to achieve critical mass in the American commentariat.”
Police brutality investigations: The status in 2011
The paradox of Lyndon JohnsonIncognito: One man’s way to self-discovery
American IED: An updated history
Black Jews: On the inside looking out, and in
"The idea of black Jews in America is more widely accepted than in years past, dovetailing with the nation's overall increasingly diverse demographic mosaic. But challenges exist in the integration of the black Judaic experience into a skeptical or disbelieving public, and into some aspects of Jewish tradition itself."
‘Jimmy’s World’ at 30
Five years after: Kanye, Katrina and George Bush
Film festivals survive and thrive in the new austerity
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