Category: Articles

  • Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’ The New York Times 2013-05-19 Mark Landler ATLANTA — President Obama came to Morehouse College, the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after Dr. King’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, that “laws…

  • Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern The Telegraph 2013-05-02 Alastair Smart, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph In this solid retrospective, America’s Ellen Gallagher subtly mixes pretty abstraction with reference to her black heritage, says Alastair Smart. I sometimes feel sorry for artists today. Not in the sense that I’d make a £2 monthly donation for…

  • The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. [Book Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer 1981) W. Michael Mathes (1936-2012), Professor of History University of San Francisco The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. By Colin M. MacLachlan and Jaime E. Rodríguez…

  • ‘One Drop of Love’ Creates Ripple Effect at UCSB The Bottom Line Weekly Newspaper of Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara: News, Features, Video & Investigative Journalism for UCSB 2013-05-13 Yuen Sin, Staff Writer The personal is very much the political, as actress-playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni illustrated through her solo show “One Drop of Love: A…

  • Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote The Guardian 2013-05-07 Bim Adewunmi Adverts from black magazines, Plasticine, eyeballs – in the work of Ellen Gallagher, it’s all woven together into something new. Bim Adewunmi visits her chaotic Rotterdam studio Throughout our interview, Ellen Gallagher makes frequent trips to a large bookcase on the other…

  • slippery positions The State 2013-05-17 Tiana Reid Columbia University As a self-defined Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet, Audre Lorde is the model representative for intersectionality. As such, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches has become a ubiquitous text in undergraduate courses, for the theory and practice of intersectionality; a way to look at what women’s studies…

  • What Obama must say to African-American grads CNN Opinion Cable News Network 2013-05-18 Paul Butler, Professor of Law Georgetown University —”My brothers.” That is how President Obama should begin one of the most significant speeches of his presidency: the commencement address at Morehouse College this Sunday. Addressing the historically black all male institution gives Obama…

  • A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely WWII Romance The New York Times 2013-05-14 Alexis Clark The nurse and the soldier may never have met – and eventually married – had it not been for the American government’s mistreatment of black women during World War II. Elinor Elizabeth Powell was an African-American military…

  • What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’ The Atlantic 2013-05-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check “black” on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn’t hold up. Andrew Sullivan and Freddie…

  • Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’ The Washington Examiner 2013-05-13 Paul Bedard Soledad O’Brien, recently yanked from her morning show “Starting Point” on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation’s black-white division. O’Brien,…