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

  • Rocking the Black Vote

    October 22, 2008 Subscribe

    Dallas DJ Tom Joyner is encouraging African-American listeners to engage in electoral politics.

  • Sarah's Steel Ones

    September 12, 2008

    Her politics are detestable, but can we take a moment to recognize that Sarah Palin is one tough woman?

  • 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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Podcast

RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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» State of Change

GOP Plays a Mean Saxby | But Chambliss's own ads in the Georgia runoff aren't quite so repulsive this time around.
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» The Beat

Key Committee Pick Signals Obama-Pelosi Direction | Waxman gets Commerce chair, amid signs of focus on healthcare, environment, consumer protection.
John Nichols

» The Dreyfuss Report

That Iranian "Bomb"? Relax. | Obama has lots and lots of time to deal with this problem carefully and rationally.
Robert Dreyfuss

» The Notion

A Clinton Administration? | Given the Obama appointees so far, you might think Hillary had been elected.
Tom Engelhardt

» Capitolism

Criteria for Treasury | What do we want in our next Treasury Secretary?
Christopher Hayes

» Passing Through

Should GM Survive? A Wall Street Analyst's View | Maybe they should just let it die.
Jane Hamsher

» Act Now!

Take the Joe Lieberman Pledge | In America, it's never too early to start preparing for the next election.
Peter Rothberg

» Editor's Cut

Smart Defense | Rep. Barney Frank is leading the charge to end the Pentagon's weapons spending spree. Is anybody listening?
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» And Another Thing

Election Updates --Good News and Not | Details on some ongoing stories
Katha Pollitt