Think about it. I'm in my early 40s. I watched the Jackson 5 cartoon when I was a kid - although I do admit to having a crush on Donny Osmond rather than MJ. Thriller came out when I was in college. It was the first time, really, that a black male musician really "crossed over" to reach all audiences. The first to do it were the Supremes back in the '60's. But Michael put a different face onto it. He wasn't the "scary, oversexed black man" that our parents warned us about. He was cool. It wasn't...

The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics By Edwin Black Mr. Black is the author of IBM and the Holocaust and the just released War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race , from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called "Master Race." But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was creat...