Debra J. Dickerson

Debra J. Dickerson

Debra J. Dickerson is the author of An American Story and The End of Blackness, a former intelligence officer in the US Air Force, a mother of two, a professional iconoclast, and a recent convert to the glory of High School Musical.

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What Gays Can Teach Blacks About Civil Rights
Wed Dec. 24, 2008 10:11 AM PST

Post-Mortem Plastic Surgery? Yech.
Fri Dec. 12, 2008 5:48 PM PST

Some Writerly Advice
Fri Dec. 12, 2008 5:37 PM PST

Financial Illiteracy, Still Keeping Americans Poor
Fri Dec. 12, 2008 5:19 PM PST

ProPublica: Bush's Presidency, Harper's Index-style
Thu Dec. 11, 2008 5:14 PM PST

Email Madness From the Afro-Sphere
Fri Dec. 5, 2008 12:16 PM PST

OJ Lyrics, Anyone?
Fri Dec. 5, 2008 11:55 AM PST

Why Tina Fey Had to Get All Tarted Up
Thu Dec. 4, 2008 5:53 PM PST

Note to Fashion World: Michelle Obama Is Black
Thu Dec. 4, 2008 2:50 PM PST

Fiddling While Our University System Burns
Thu Dec. 4, 2008 2:10 PM PST

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Is Made of Steel
Thu Dec. 4, 2008 8:50 AM PST

Slavery Comes Full Circle
Wed Dec. 3, 2008 10:49 AM PST

More Genetic Tests: Still Creepy
Wed Dec. 3, 2008 9:41 AM PST

Note To Shelby Steele: Stop, Honey. Just Stop.
Tue Dec. 2, 2008 4:33 PM PST

Should Blacks Gain From Obama's Win?
Tue Dec. 2, 2008 2:36 PM PST

The Great Recession
Tue Dec. 2, 2008 6:02 AM PST

Women Rock Volunteerism
Sun Nov. 30, 2008 10:16 AM PST

Your Friday "Awwwww"
Fri Nov. 21, 2008 10:18 AM PST

Are There Any Subprime Saints?
Wed Nov. 19, 2008 2:06 PM PST

These Men Are From Hell, not Mars
Wed Nov. 19, 2008 11:06 AM PST

Take This as Tacit Black Support for Gay Marriage
Tue Nov. 18, 2008 8:53 AM PST

Notes From A Black Nerd's Memoir
Mon Nov. 17, 2008 7:12 AM PST

Wanna Work for Obama? Prepare for a Strip Search
Fri Nov. 14, 2008 6:58 AM PST

Still Rappin' For Obama
Wed Nov. 12, 2008 1:44 PM PST

What Color is the Sky in Red Republican World?
Wed Nov. 12, 2008 6:38 AM PST

How One Vet Spent Her First Veterans' Day After "The World Changed"
Tue Nov. 11, 2008 2:31 PM PST

Will Obama's Cabinet Favor Whites?
Mon Nov. 10, 2008 11:19 AM PST

I Was Right to Worry About Black Homophobia
Sat Nov. 8, 2008 3:43 PM PST

Post-Obama, Whither Black Uplift?
Fri Nov. 7, 2008 11:57 AM PST

Obama Brings the Hood to Montana
Mon Nov. 3, 2008 6:32 AM PST

Your Friday Laugh at Palin's/Wall Street's Expense
Fri Oct. 31, 2008 4:55 PM PDT

Will a Record Black Turnout Doom Proposition 8?
Fri Oct. 31, 2008 4:16 PM PDT

A Black Voter Email Meme
Fri Oct. 31, 2008 3:42 PM PDT

Why Wright Happens
Wed Oct. 29, 2008 9:06 PM PDT

Getting What We Paid For With Sarah Palin
Wed Oct. 29, 2008 6:39 PM PDT

The Upside of the Mortgage Crisis
Thu Oct. 23, 2008 12:39 PM PDT

Are New Airport Scanners a "Virtual Strip Search?"
Thu Oct. 23, 2008 12:23 PM PDT

Video: Meet the Black McCains
Thu Oct. 23, 2008 11:24 AM PDT

Another College Campus Shooting
Wed Oct. 22, 2008 12:21 PM PDT

Are Black Athletes Obligated to Support Obama?
Mon Oct. 20, 2008 11:37 AM PDT

Dan Savage on Sex, Moose, and the Palin Kids
Fri Oct. 17, 2008 6:44 PM PDT

Is Getting Race Right All About the Benjamins?
Fri Oct. 17, 2008 3:36 PM PDT

Maybe Nothing is Wrong With Kansas
Fri Oct. 17, 2008 1:03 PM PDT

On Bitch Magazine, Female Bodyguards, and More Feminist Superheroes
Tue Oct. 14, 2008 4:17 PM PDT

PBS's Frontline Special on Obama and "That One"
Tue Oct. 14, 2008 12:34 PM PDT

The New GOP: Party of Blockheads
Sun Oct. 12, 2008 10:00 AM PDT

A Friday Distraction From Finance Doom
Fri Oct. 10, 2008 10:07 AM PDT

Jim Crow's Muslim America
Thu Oct. 9, 2008 4:01 PM PDT

Palin's Secessionists Problem
Thu Oct. 9, 2008 1:47 PM PDT

The National Debt Clock Ran Out of Digits
Thu Oct. 9, 2008 1:01 PM PDT