Salim Muwakkil

Forty-five years after his murder in February 1965, Malcolm X’s legacy remains surprisingly vibrant. But that legacy also complicates the relationship blacks have with America’s first black president.read more

The Department of Homeland Security is acting improperly and foolishly by trying to link black activism to Islamic radicalism.read more

With Sen. Barack Obama, we are witnesses to history.

Many blacks believed they would never live long enough to see such an occurrence.read more

February 27, 2007

As Black History Month comes to a close, let's take a moment to honor Frederick Douglass, the father of the civil rights movement and the most influential black American of the 19th century.read more

November 16, 2006

Ed Bradley paved the way for black journalists.read more

March 28, 2006

African-Americans are in the midst of a social crisis that threatens the very viability of the black community. And it has ominous implications for the nation at large.read more

February 16, 2005

Forty years after Malcolm X's murder on Feb.read more

November 30, 2004

Was the melee between NBA players and fans a racial brawl?

The Nov.read more

September 14, 2004

If Congress and the Bush administration were serious about protecting our homeland, they would have renewed the ban on assault weapons, which expired Sept.read more

July 28, 2004

Barack Obama has arrived.read more

March 30, 2004

Jack Kelley, USA Today's star foreign correspondent, was found to have fabricated and plagiarized many of his major stories, and his tumble from journalism's firmament to its dung heap has provoked a flurry of questions about the nature of the news business.

After scrutinizing hundreds of stories Kelley wrote from 1993 to 2003, a panel of investigators found he was guilty of "journalistic sins" that were "sweeping and substantial." Kelley has covered some of the most significant foreign stories of the last decade and his work was widely showcased in the nation's largest newspaper.read more

September 24, 2003

In a recent essay on the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, black conservative Shelby Steele maintained, "the great lie of today's black protest ...read more

July 17, 2003

The unemployment rate for African-Americans surged to 11.8 percent last month.read more

June 25, 2003

Alex Kotlowitz has received a lot of calls since Benton Harbor, Mich., exploded into two days of rioting on June 16.read more

May 21, 2003

Many words have been spilled over the Jayson Blair affair, including 14,000 of them by the New York Times.read more