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damali ayo's new book, How to Rent a Negro, continues her work as an artist who challenges, with courage and wit, systems of white privilege, ideology, and oppression.

Vanity Fair Dame Edna Everage Apology
Dear Reader:
We are writing you to relay our distress at the reaction a column in the February issue of Vanity Fair has caused you and others within the Latin community in the United States and elsewhere, and to explain the reasoning behind our decision to publish the column, the effect […]

The first sign of trouble came at the San Francisco International Airport on the morning of Oct. 23, when Arshad Chowdhury was returning to school in Pittsburgh from a trip to the West Coast.
The 26-year-old business administration student at Carnegie Mellon University was waiting to catch Northwest Airlines Flight 342 to Pittsburgh when an announcement […]

H.Con.Res 227 condemns “bigotry and violence” against Arab Americans.
I have difficulties with nearly every line of this resolution, as much for what it doesn’t include — ‘racism’, ‘racist’, ‘hate’ do not appear — as for what it does.
It seems to predicate its condemnation on there being “good” people of color; it seems to appeal to […]

“The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.”–Mayor Giuliani
First, I really must echo Joan Walsh’s tribute to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: He’s been amazing. New York has been amazing. Except, alas, for Senator Clinton, which really breaks my heart. I’m no fan of Pataki or Giuliani, but they, […]

By now everyone knows the details of the terrorist attacks that took place on Tuesday in New York and Washington D.C. In the months ahead there will be time to talk about the degree to which U.S. foreign policy contributes to international terrorism, and the degree to which that policy is explicitly and implicitly […]