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01.21.2009 9:00 pm

The myth of a Post-Racial Society

The extended Obama family. Getty Images

The extended Obama family. | Getty Images

In the afterglow of the inauguration of President Barack Obama has come the suggestion that his ascendancy marks the onset of a “post-racial” society, one in which Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream has been…

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05.24.2008 1:27 am

Plain talk about a complicated city

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Post-Dispatch editorial page welcomed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce to The Platform.

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05.03.2008 12:13 pm

A heavyweight prize fight, indeed

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Baldwin v. BuckleyJames Baldwin squares off against William F. Buckley in this 1965 debate at the Cambridge Union.

The issue: Race in America.

Quite bruising.

I wonder if, in later years, Mr. Buckley had any misgivings about the arguments he made that night.

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