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  • Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive

    In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama’s was a landmark presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if any, radical shifts in policy.

  • A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir

    World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history―from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden.

  • Georgia Douglas Johnson, Harlem Renaissance Poet & Playwright

    Georgia Douglas Johnson (September 10, 1880 – May 14, 1966) was an American poet and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts: A Love for Liberia

    Joseph Jenkins Roberts: A Love for Liberia StMU Research Scholars: Featuring Scholarly Research, Writing, and Media at St. Mary’s University St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas 2020-02-17 Antonio Holverstott Portrait of Joseph Jenkins Roberts taken by Augustus McCarthy circa 1840-1860 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1846, the governor of the African colony of Liberia,…

  • The Afro Latino who redefined how Black history is remembered

    Arturo Schomburg’s experiences as an Afro Puerto Rican at the turn of the century influenced his approach to rescuing and preserving Black history.

  • The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy

    The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy Swallow Press (an imprint of Ohio University Press) January 2020 256 pages 5½ × 8½ in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8040-1221-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8040-4106-5 Julia McKenzie Munemo In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking…

  • 21. Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood

    21. Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood Chapter in the anthology: Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson (ed.) (2019-09-12, Open Book Publishers) Printed ISBN: 9781783745654 eBook ISBN: 9791036538070 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Fig. 21.1. Portrait of Fredi Washington. Courtesy of…

  • Running from Race

    Librarian Louise Butler Walker ’35 took desperate measures to survive in a racist society.

  • Descendant of Alex Manly talks about modern impact of 1898 Massacre

    Descendant of Alex Manly talks about modern impact of 1898 Massacre WECT News 6 Wilmington, North Carolina 2021-11-10 Mara McJilton, Multimedia Journalist Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper in 1898 when it was burned down by white supremacists WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) –Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper…

  • Mitski Doesn’t Bother With Labels. She Prefers Excellence

    Mitski Miyawaki, who performs with her band under her first name, grew up in a biracial, multicultural household. During her childhood, Mitski lived in Japan, Malaysia, China, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But it wasn’t until she returned to the U.S. that she had a racial designation imposed on her.