Henry Louis Gates, Troy Anthony Davis, and the 21st Century Color Line

Huffington Post by Amy Goodman | Jul. 22, 2009 (Opinion)

W.E.B. Du Bois' classic 1903 work "The Souls of Black Folk" opens with "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." Du Bois helped form the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which just Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 22, 2009 - 9:58 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Jul 23, 2009 - 8:24 AM PDT

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 by Kaizar Campwala - Jul. 23, 2009

There's no particular deep insight here about racism in America, though I do appreciate that Goodman cites the incident of the swimming pool.

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 23, 2009

Amy looks again at racism in America.

“When I started, my hair was black and my president was white. Now my hair’s white, and my president is black. I hold the NAACP ... More »

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