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Collection of columnist Thomas Sowell's controversial columns about issues ranging from homelessness, foreign policy, AIDS, environmentalism, education, law, race and nostalgia.

John McWhorter argues that the crisis in African‑American communities can only be healed through renewed dedication to achievement and integration, challenging pervasive victimhood and alienation in black culture.

An examination of how capitalist systems in the United States from the early 1980s to the early 2000s contributed to the economic underdevelopment of African Americans, revealing the interconnected roles of racism, social conflict, and limited business opportunities.

Randall Robinson examines how crime, poverty, and the prison-industrial complex trap black communities in U.S. inner cities, urging Black Americans to challenge these forces and fight for a more equitable future.

Randall Robinson argues that America owes a vast debt to Africans and African Americans for centuries of slavery and segregation, urging responsibility and reparations to rectify this historic injustice.

"Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. After living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy writes, "I had seen three groups of eighth-graders graduate to high school, high school kids go on to college, and college graduates start their careers. I also heard too many stories and read too many obituaries of the teenagers who were jailed or killed along the way. The son of a police detective in jail for murder. The grandson of a teacher shot while visiting his girlfriend's house. The daughter of a park supervisor living with a drug dealer who would later be killed at a fast-food restaurant." Both troublesome and hopeful, these are the discontinuities in the daily life of Groveland residents that Pattillo-McCoy seeks to explain."--BOOK JACKET. "Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality: Even the black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal."--BOOK JACKET.