Marcellus Andrews

I. Our Blues as the Seeds of the Next Black Rebellion Black America has spent the past quarter century on the defensive against the conservative assault on equality – especially racial equality – inaugurated by the election of Ronald Reagan. The right’s program of reverse Robin Hood economics and smashing the limited instruments of fairness…

I. The Situation America’s economic decline is taking a peculiar form: the economic foundations of a free and fair society are slowly being destroyed by “normal” economic change under the aegis of a criminally incompetent conservative government. This decline is especially ominous for black America because it destroys the prospects for equal opportunity in American…

Large American cities are in a difficult economic bind, a bind that is especially tough on poor and working class Americans, who are disproportionately black and Latino. The most pressing problem for poor and working class Americans is that American cities are important nodes in a hyper-competitive global economy where highly educated, high income workers…

The just concluded presidential election was all about Iraq, with the state of the economy lagging in importance while questions about poverty, economic inequality and racial justice languished in the shadows. As always, the concerns of black people were invisible to the parties and to white America. Black American voters were again caught in a…