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Amy Alexander

Amy Alexander is a 2008 Alfred Knobler Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. She is currently at work on a book about race and the media.

Currently

  • The Color Line Online

    July 16, 2008

    Minority journalists are discovering new opportunities--and the same old barriers--online.

  • Truth and Consequences

    March 6, 2008

    Who's more to blame in the Love and Consequences hoax: the faux ghetto girl or the credulous book editors and reviewers who so eagerly snapped up her story?

  • A Torch Passed

    January 28, 2008

    With a veritable Mount Rushmore of Kennedy faces arrayed behind him, Barack Obama received powerful symbolic and political support from the icons of the liberal establishment.

  • Black Women Talk Barack

    January 24, 2008

    It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.

2007

  • Come On, People

    November 14, 2007

    A new book by Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint is a tough-love prescription for social change. Why are critics in the black community piling on?

  • Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit

    October 15, 2007

    Driven by a tabloid episode from her own marriage, the novelist joins the debate over the mass marketing of trashy books to young black readers.

2006

  • 'We Got To Do Better'

    December 20, 2006 Subscribe

    Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.

  • Tavis Smiley's Covenant

    September 1, 2006

    Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Martin Luther King Jr.

2001

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/25/08
This week: The Nation's reporter in Georgia talks for the first time about being assaulted by Ossetian paramilitaries. Plus: Dave Zirin recaps the olympic highs and lows, Barbara Crossette considers the future for Pakistan and John Nichols and historian Adele Oltman preview the Democratic Convention in the context of Dr. Martin Luther King's dream. (13mb mp3)

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