The recession is wiping out the jobs, homes, and dreams of the African American middle class.
Kai Wright
Kai Wright is editorial director of Colorlines.com and an Alfred Knobler fellow of The Nation Institute.
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On the Books
Could microloans help America’s informal entrepreneurs become
business owners — and rescue urban economies in the process?
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The Assault on the Black Middle Class
Sub-prime lending was racially targeted and demolished decades of progress made by America’s most diligent and striving people of color. How will America make amends?
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America’s AIDS Apartheid
The domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic is increasingly black and Southern — and spiraling out of control.
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Dr. King, Forgotten Radical
Long before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, America began to forget his true legacy.
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Is AIDS Research Back to Square One?
As recently as last summer it seemed we were on the cusp of an AIDS vaccine, but the failure of the most recent trials has some calling for a return to “fundamental questions” of how to fight AIDS.
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History as Hangman
A rash of noose incidents across the country has reopened old wounds of racial intimidation. Law makers are reaching for hate crime law as a balm, but until America faces its past, racial terrorism will continue to plague us.
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Clarence Thomas’ Race Problem
His new memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, retreads the Anita Hill controversy and reveals a (still) angry black man — and the gap between the rhetoric and reality of race in America.