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The double standard slaps you in the face. Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Ronald Taylor, a black man, allegedly guns down five whites, killing three. What followed became a textbook case on how contemporary American journalism deals with race. The suspect’s motive...

Not Guilty. An Albany, N.Y. jury, consisting of four blacks, acquitted four white officers charged in the shooting death of West African Amadou Diallo. The undercover cops, looking for a rapist, cornered Diallo in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment. They ordered him...

O. J. Simpson, the only man in America more accessible to the press than John McCain, claims vindication. Simpson told Newsweek, “I feel vindicated. It is now loud and clear that these guys are capable of planting evidence and framing people. This is not...

“What’s he really done in life?” A Montgomery civil rights worker posed this question about Martin Luther King III — the eldest son of legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Pretty heavy thing, being named King III, and now he...

“Almost all criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty.” — Alan Dershowitz, “The Best Defense,” 1982. Assume, for a moment, that Dershowitz got it right — that most of the guys the cops legitimately hook and book, the ones the DA...