Debra Dickerson

The Last Plantation

THE "NIGGARDLY" SCANDAL SHOULD TEACH WHITES TO WATCH THEIR LANGUAGE, AND BLACKS TO TOUGHEN UP.

Mayor Anthony Williams and the "niggardly" scandal may be easily dismissed on the op-ed pages of our nation's newspapers, especially now that Williams has reversed himself and hired David Howard… more

Debra Dickerson | Salon | February 5, 1999

No Apologies

Every day this week, perfectly nice latte-drinking, movie-going, please-and-thank-you Americans are trying to blow the heads off a bunch of Iraqis whose faces they'll never see. They'll try really hard to count their pulverized corpses (you get points for them, you know), but to visualize their faces? Not really. It's not that… more

Debra Dickerson | Salon | January 28, 1999

Community Matters

At New York City's Aquinas High School, helping the needy is both a commitment and a lesson. The students learn that . . .

Twice a week after classes, 20 girls bound out of Aquinas High School in the South Bronx, across Crotona Avenue, and through the front door of the Thorpe Family Residence, their white blouses and pleated skirts clashing with their hip-hop hairdos and Fu Manchu fingernails. They swing… more