Nixon and the Death of Youthful Protest
Nixon’s Black Supporters Should Shuffle Off
Uncle Strom’s Cabin: The Reelection of Richard Nixon
The New Civil Rights Movement
Nixon’s Racist Justification of Watergate
George Wallace Still Champion of the Politics of Race
Blacks and Jews
Why No Riots?
The Death of Youthful Protest
Politics Matters
Election 76—A Political Diary
Why I Can’t Support Jimmy Carter
SNCC Reunites, Carter Is Absent
Blacks Are Politically Impotent
Griffin Bell and the Right to Dissent
Carter Ignores Blacks
Political Prisoners in the United States
Carter’s Misguided Fight against Inflation
The Civil Rights Movement: The Beginning and the End
The Racial Tide Has Turned Against Us
King: Again a Victim
The 25th Anniversary of Brown: Time to Do for Ourselves
W. E. B. Du Bois and John F. Kennedy—Which Is Greater?
Roy Wilkins: A Reasonable Man
Our Long National Nightmare: The Reagan and Bush Years
A New Social Darwinism: The Survival of the Richest
Reagan’s Justice
My Father and the Death Penalty
Nicaragua and Paranoia
The Break that Never Healed: John Lewis’s Painful Criticism
Operation Rescue Is No Civil Rights Movement
A Kinder, Gentler Nation?
My Case Against Clarence Thomas
The Need for More Civil Rights Laws
How the Draft Dodged Me
In Defense of the NAACP
The Measure of Men and Racism: Jefferson and King, Clinton and Dole, Farrakhan and Simpson
The Most Useful Founding Father
Remembering All of Dr. King
Bill Clinton and Hope for America
Failures: Gingrich and Dole
Clinton against Dole
Gangsta Rap
Louis Farrakhan Is a Black David Duke
The Unsurprising Acquittal of O. J. Simpson
King Supported Affirmative Action
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Death Penalty
The George W. Bush Years: The War on Terror and the Fight for Poor Blacks, Women, and LGBTQ+ People
Racial Injustice in the Criminal Justice System
Social Security and African Americans
September 11 and Beyond
Slavery and Terrorism
Our Leaders Are Wrong about the War
The NAACP and the Right to Reproductive Freedom
Are Gay Rights Civil Rights?
AIDS Is a Major Civil Rights Issue
Why I Will March for LGBTQ+ Rights
In Katrina’s Wake
We Must Persevere
Barack Obama and Ongoing Bigotry
What Barack Obama Means
Homophobia and Black America
Same-Sex Marriage: More than a White Issue
Religion-Based Exemptions Discriminate against LGBTQ+ People
The Civil War and the Confederate Flag
Voting Rights: Which Side Are You On?
Voting Rights Again: The Most Pressing Domestic Issue Today
Still Momentous: The March on Washington Fifty Years Later
We All Must Protest
Our Journey Is Nowhere Near Over