Race and Class in America
The black “insiders” and the Obama administration
By Lawrence Porter, November 17, 2008
The Obama presidential campaign carefully cultivated the illusion that an African American president would prove sympathetic to the plight of average working people. However, the social layers that Ob...
US Supreme Court clears way for execution of likely innocent death row inmate
By Kate Randall, October 16, 2008
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear the appeal of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. The case against Davis, convicted in the 1989 killing of an off-duty Savannah police office, has gain...
The University of Michigan Law School case and affirmative action: the politics of race
By Joseph Kay, May 3, 2001
During the University of Michigan (U-M) Law School case and afterward, U-M and various radical groups on campus have taken up the defense of affirmative action, advancing a political perspective that ...
Affirmative action and the right to education: a socialist response
By Joseph Kay and Patrick Martin, May 3, 2001
Conflicting rulings by two federal district court judges on lawsuits against the affirmative action policies of the University of Michigan may well provide the vehicle for a major ruling by the US Sup...
