By Wade Henderson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The survey gives me great cause for optimism. Throughout history, people have drawn boundaries based on differences of race and ethnicity, and untold conflicts have resulted. America—and in particular, our civil rights movement—changed that by enshrining the principle of equality under law and by promising … [Read more...] about “Great Cause for Optimism” by Wade Henderson (May-June 2008 P&R Issue)
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“Overall, Things Are Not Good” by Salim Muwakkil (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
By Salim Muwakkil (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Martin Luther King’s publicity-savvy Southern Christian Leadership Conference arrived in Chicago with a campaign to attack racial biases and improve the quality of life in the city’s notoriously squalid black ghettos. The SCLC-Coordinating Council of Community Organizations collaboration was particularly focused … [Read more...] about “Overall, Things Are Not Good” by Salim Muwakkil (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
“Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By William L. Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown have made an important contribution with their trenchant analysis of where matters now stand in the long struggle for equality and racial integration. Sadly, race remains a seemingly intractable problem, an (perhaps the) American dilemma. W.E.B. DuBois’ observation … [Read more...] about “Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“Setting the Record Straight” by Eric Mann (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Eric Mann (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown book could easily be renamed The Illusions of Liberalism. It argues that there never was a honeymoon period in which a white majority supported civil rights, and it advocates renewed government intervention to protect black civil rights, an analysis and proposals that any civil rights … [Read more...] about “Setting the Record Straight” by Eric Mann (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“At the Races: the Multicultural Proposal” by Ibrahim K. Sundiata (March-April 1995 P&R Issue)
By Ibrahim K. Sundiata (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) For more than two years, the federal government has been considering revising race in America. Among the most controversial proposals is one calling for creation of a mixed-race "multiracial" category. The debate on this subject promises to establish the context for race relations for the next century and … [Read more...] about “At the Races: the Multicultural Proposal” by Ibrahim K. Sundiata (March-April 1995 P&R Issue)
