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Kaleidoscope of opportunity

Cover Story | Beyond race, toward a new America: This nation has come to terms with its past, and become a truly multiracial, multiethnic melting pot, brimming with optimism, wealth, and opportunity

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Mend it or end it?

Cover Story | The Truth, Logic, and Courage Medal: A lonely soldier who fought a losing battle in America's Civil War II, a war of ideas, now hopes it's not too late to extinguish the racial fires

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Confidence in the unseen

Cover Story | Looking to God, not government: The state could and did root out systemic racism, but conquering our nation's racism of the heart required a solution far beyond the reach of any government

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Garden-variety racial barriers

Cover Story | Racial hatred remains: Racism is not about ignorance; it is about sin, the same one that started in the Garden with the first parents of our (human) race. So America's shame cannot be eradicated through "education"-only through repentance

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Rising from the ashes of racism

Cover Story | It began with "I'm sorry": Born in slavery-and, sadly, partially supportive of it- the Southern Baptist Convention comes to terms with its past with a sincere act of contrition

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America listened

Cover Story | Rising to the challenge: How economic change and cultural renewal-amid personal pain and travail-brought a race-riven nation together

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Race in America: A historical timeline

by The Editors

Cover Story | 1616 A Dutch privateer sails into Chesapeake Bay, seeking supplies. Its English pilot, Marmaduke Raynor, helps broker the deal with Jamestown officials: 20 blacks, captured in raids of the West Indies, in exchange for the needed provisions. 1637 After winning a skirmish against the Pequod Indians at Mystia, the Massachusetts militia sends the captured women and children to the West Indies, to be sold as slaves. The ship is the Desire. It returns loaded with African slaves for Connecticut

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We cannot walk alone

by Marvin Olasky

Cover Story | So much of our national conversation about race is the droning kind that puts most people to sleep. "Platitudes, three for five bucks," a speechwriter calls out. "Why can't we just get along?" the bumper sticker with a smiley face asks. At WORLD, we decided to have a special issue on the topic of black-white relations because few subjects in America have been so vexatious for so long. But we didn't want to get boilerplate essays, so we asked seven thinkers to play off the wonderful "I

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A new division, a new dream

Cover Story | Racism as we knew it is gone: But government preferences over the years created a new kind of antagonism-based not upon race but instead upon class. We need a new dream: that we be judged by the content of our character, not our resumés

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In this issue: "A new division, a new dream," Aug. 25, 2001

Voices

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Sidewalk survey

by Joel Belz

If this was so easy to do, why hadn't I done it before?

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My house divided?

by Marvin Olasky

That's where government preferences lead, but the biblical way is better

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Mailbag

So low When I read your article on stem-cell research, I got really upset. It's hard to believe that our country could stoop so low. - Jonathan Snyder,

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