Emerge, a glossy monthly that calls itself "Black America's Newsmagazine," is nothing if not provocative. The image on the magazine's January 1997 cover is of a young black woman passed out in a fetal position inside a glass crack pipe that forms the letter "I" in "CIA." The February cover featured…

On Nov. 30, something virtually unprecedented happened in Washington: Before a battery of cameras, an elected official publicly apologized to one of his former staffers for her wrongful firing. And so, House-historian-for-a- week Christina Jeffrey, the notorious Nazi, anti-Semite, racist, and…

Harvard University prides itself on its excellence and selectivity, so it's not especially newsworthy when its government department rejects a candidate for graduate-school admission. But Brett Gerry isn't just any applicant. He had a 4.04 grade point average at Colgate University and scored at the…