Articles By jervey tervalon

Perry Bennett

Wed, May 14, 2008, 12:00 pm

The coolest ice cream

Barack Obama and the Company We Keep

Wed, Mar 19, 2008, 12:50 pm

Many blacks have a Jeremiah Wright in their past ... and are better men for it

Obama: Ain't No Such Thing as Superman

Wed, Jan 30, 2008, 5:56 pm

The audacity yet to come

The Slow Death of a Chocolate City

Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 4:00 pm

Lacking a strong economic link to their community, many upwardly mobile African-Americans — as many…

Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Wed, Sep 26, 2007, 12:00 pm

Curse of the Fuku

Cecilia Peck

Wed, May 9, 2007, 12:00 pm

Chick magnet

Dennis Haysbert

Wed, May 9, 2007, 12:00 pm

The first black President

Roger Guenveur Smith

Wed, May 9, 2007, 12:00 pm

The improvised gesture

UCLA's Black Shadow

Wed, Jun 21, 2006, 3:00 pm

Graduation day at UCLA and, as usual, I’ve managed to get myself lost on this…

Cultured Pearl

Wed, Apr 19, 2006, 3:00 pm

Charmaine Jefferson

The Creole Connection

Wed, Apr 19, 2006, 3:00 pm

Dean Baquet

Sister From Another Planet

Wed, Mar 1, 2006, 7:00 pm

Remembering Octavia Butler, June 22, 1947 – February 25, 2006

While We Were Sleeping

Thu, Dec 15, 2005, 12:00 am

Who will save New Orleans?

Do You Know What It Means to Be Poor and Black in New Orleans?

Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 12:00 am

A fortunate son on the old country

“There’re Alligators and Snakes in the Water”

Thu, Sep 8, 2005, 12:00 am

E-mails from the apocalypse

No Second Line for New Orleans

Thu, Sep 1, 2005, 12:00 am

Worrying and praying for New Orleans feels like being at the sickbed of a…

Serving Monster

Thu, Apr 14, 2005, 12:00 am

Illustrations by Erik SandbergWhile we were pondering the Michael Jackson trial and its various tributaries…

Literary Sharecropper

Thu, Dec 2, 2004, 12:00 am

The perilous life of a novelist

A Rose for Michael

Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 12:00 am

It’s not hard to see Michael Jackson’s life as a cautionary tale of what money,…

Home Fires Burning

Wed, Apr 24, 2002, 12:00 am

About a year ago I received a call froma producer of Night Waves, a BBC…

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