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A/V Booth: A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

Truthdig Podcast: A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

Reports: Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

Reports: The Dream That Came True

Reports: James Cone’s Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised

Reports: The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit

Arts and Culture: God of the Oppressed

Ear to the Ground: Student Debt by Skin Color

Reports: Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent

Reports: Flavor of the Week

Reports: Five Women Who Matter Most

Reports: How Baseball Explains Modern Racism

Reports: Murder Is Good Politics, Bad Justice

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Ear to the Ground: Reno Air Show Ends in a Deadly Crash (Video)

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Intervenes in Texas Execution

A/V Booth: Cornel West Recalls the Attica Prison Rebellion

Reports: The Real Dr. King: An Extremist for Justice

Reports: Race and the Church of Denialism

Arts and Culture: Reconciling ‘The Help’ With the History

Reports: America Is a Spark Away From Riots of Its Own

Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Ear to the Ground: A New Space Race

A/V Booth: What Would a Republican Conference Be Without Racial Controversy?

Arts and Culture: Exclusive: Ry Cooder’s ‘No Banker Left Behind’

Reports: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Reports: Second-Class Students

Reports: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence Declared Unconstitutional

A/V Booth: Truthdig Radio: Meltdown in Our Casino Economy

Reports: Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering With the Machinery of Death

Reports: Whistling Dixie—Again

Ear to the Ground: Shirley Sherrod Strikes Back

Reports: The Coming MiscegeNation?

Ear to the Ground: Cameron Criticizes Multiculturalism

Reports: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste—Except in Ohio

Reports: Obama Changes the Narrative

Reports: Sundance and the Art of Democracy

Reports: What It Was Like to Be John F. Kennedy

Reports: Defusing a Sociological Bomb

Arts and Culture: ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ Minus the N-Word

Cartoons: White Christmas

Reports: Let’s Not Spin the Civil War

Reports: Haley Barbour’s Civil Rights Airbrush

Reports: Pat-Downs Hit Middle America Where It Counts

Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

Arts and Culture: ‘White Material’: Portrait of the Colonist in a Post-Colonial Land

Ear to the Ground: Cops on Trial in Post-Katrina Killing

Reports: Saying Goodbye to Compassionate Conservatism

A/V Booth: ‘Smiley & West’ Goes on Air

Ear to the Ground: Protests Rock Oakland in Wake of Verdict

Reports: Race and the Tea Party’s Ire

Reports: Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian

Reports: Too Much Fox-Flavored Kool-Aid for Juan Williams

Reports: Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses

Reports: Will Black Voters Respond to Obama’s Needs?

Reports: Needed: Competition for Black Votes

Ear to the Ground: Does Emanuel Have a Fighting Chance in Chicago?

Reports: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens

Reports: Haley Barbour’s Ridiculous Story

Reports: ‘They Kill Alex’

Ear to the Ground: A Handbook for Killing Non-Jews

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Absurd Gay Marriage Position

Ear to the Ground: The Glenn Beck-Sarah Palin Rally to Un-Pervert MLK

Reports: Mosque-Issippi Burning

Ear to the Ground: Harry Reid Opposes ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

Reports: Obama and Urban Crisis

Reports: The Racists Return

Ear to the Ground: Reid Ruffles Republican Feathers With Jab about Hispanics

Reports: Obama on the Color Line

Reports: ‘Dropping Babies,’ Abandoning Principles

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Sherrod, New Media & Race; Unemployment Benefits; BP

Reports: Using Race to Smear Obama

Reports: Purging the Tea Party’s Racist Poison

Reports: The NAACP and the Tea Party’s Flag-Burners

Ear to the Ground: BART Cop Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter

Reports: What Kind of Supreme Court?

Reports: Unhinged on the Right

Reports: Robert Byrd’s Redemption

Reports: Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening

Reports: Historical Lessons Warn Against Modern U.S. Foreign Policy

Ear to the Ground: Against the Wishes of Arizona Lawmakers, America Is Getting More Diverse

Ear to the Ground: Sarah Palin: Competent Manager

Ear to the Ground: NBA Leads Sports in Diversity

Reports: What’s Not to Like About Civil Rights?

Reports: Give Some Answers, Dr. Paul

Ear to the Ground: Whites Are 5 Times Richer Than Blacks, Study Finds

Reports: Outlawing Latinos’ Heritage

Reports: Singing Lena Horne’s Praises

Reports: Lena Horne: A Glamorous Revolutionary

Reports: Our First Line of Defense

Ear to the Ground: Most Americans Support Arizona Immigration Law

Cartoons: Hung Jury

Cartoons: Papers!

Cartoons: Papers

Reports: Racial Politics, Tea Party Style

Reports: Stay Away From Arizona

Cartoons: Unconventional Arizona

Reports: Boycotting Arizona’s Racism

Ear to the Ground: Mexico Warns Travelers About Arizona

Reports: Arizona’s Act of Vengeance

Reports: The Populism of the Privileged

Ear to the Ground: Voices of the Tea Party

Ear to the Ground: The ‘Trustworthiness of Beards’ Edition

A/V Booth: Lloyd ‘I Am Not an African-American’ Marcus Performs Tea Party Anthem

Reports: The Confederacy Isn’t Something to Be Proud Of

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Rebecca Skloot’s Life of Henrietta Lacks

Reports: In Defense of Chairman Mike

Reports: The Invisible Ward 8

Arts and Culture: What’s the Fuss With Badu’s Body?

Ear to the Ground: Administration Approves Profiling at Airports

Reports: RFK and the Civil Rights Movement

Ear to the Ground: Civil Rights Activist Found Dead

A/V Booth: Cornel West on ‘Fault Lines’

Reports: The Difference Between a Terrorist and Someone Who Flies a Plane Into a Building

Reports: Calling All Rebels

Ear to the Ground: Racializing Abortion in Georgia

Reports: The Origins of Tea Party Radicalism

Reports: Don’t Ask, Don’t Judge?

Reports: Fear of a ‘Multicultural’ Nation

Reports: Not So Fast, Chris Matthews

Ear to the Ground: Life After Massachusetts Edition

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Lose Ted Kennedy’s Seat

Reports: The Bay State Lesson

Cartoons: Got MLK?

Reports: Reid’s Motive Does Matter

Cartoons: Clueless

Reports: Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes

Reports: A Truth, Crudely Put

Cartoons: The Fox and the Hounding

Reports: Harry Reid’s Poor Choice of Words

Cartoons: Reid Carefully

Reports: Fighting Over the Squandered Decade

Reports: The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus

A/V Booth: HP’s Facial Non-Recognition

Reports: The Fallacy of Good vs. Evil in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Washington’s Black Community Grapples with Gay Marriage Issue

Arts and Culture: Freedom’s Fight: Part II

Ear to the Ground: Louisiana Judge Steps Down Amid Interracial Marriage Controversy

Cartoons: Wish Upon a Star

Reports: Racist Judge Inadvertently Makes the Case for Gay Marriage

A/V Booth: Racism Down Under and Beyond

Ear to the Ground: Oklahoma’s New Abortion Law Not OK, Say Critics

Ear to the Ground: District of Corruption

Reports: A Down-and-Out Route for Rush

Ear to the Ground: Louisiana Official Refuses to License Interracial Marriage

Reports: Prizing Peace on the Home Front

Reports: The Truth About Two Racists—Beck and Limbaugh

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Reports: Jimmy Carter Is Right

Reports: Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America’s Dirty Work

Reports: Sotomayor’s Bumpy Road to Confirmation

Reports: A Judge With a View

Reports: So Much for the Promised Land

Cartoons: Summit Up

Reports: Let’s End the Score-Settling

Cartoons: No Trouble

Reports: What if the Big Cheese Had Been White?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Invites Prof. Gates, Sgt. Crowley to White House

Reports: Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review

Truthdig Podcast: Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review

Ear to the Ground: Prof. Gates Tells His Side of the Story, Chastises Policeman

Reports: The 21st Century Color Line

Ear to the Ground: The Bush Baby Boom

Reports: Black America’s New Reality

Cartoons: Confirm This

Reports: Sotomayor Enters the D.C. Twilight Zone

Reports: White Men Can’t Trump

Reports: Closet Racism in the Age of Obama

Reports: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

Ear to the Ground: Racial Row in Freemasonry

Reports: The Lone Wolves Among Us

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: Hung Up on Race

Reports: Sotomayor Is No Leftist

Reports: A Justice for Us All

Ear to the Ground: Sen. Inhofe Concerned About the Whole Race, Gender Thing

Ear to the Ground: Obama Sends Rebs a Wreath

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: U.S. Citizens Detained and Deported by Immigration

Truthdig Podcast: U.S. Citizens Detained and Deported by Immigration

Cartoons: Decisions Decisions

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Reports: Castro’s Racial-Paradise Myth

Reports: Israel’s Racist in Chief

Arts and Culture: Susan Jacoby on William Goetzmann’s ‘Beyond the Revolution’

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: The Irrelevance of Race

A/V Booth: Colorblind Justice? Well, Not Exactly

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Ear to the Ground: Brazil’s President Says Whites Caused Global Crisis

Ear to the Ground: It Pays to Be White

Reports: The Geezer Gang Is Staying on the Job

Ear to the Ground: Privacy Intrusion With a Twist

Cartoons: Agents

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Post Cartoon Goes Way, Way Over the Line

Ear to the Ground: Attorney General: On Race, America Is ‘a Nation of Cowards’

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