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  • Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion

    Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion The Guardian 2017-01-13 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies Princeton University Illustration by Joe Magee Barack Obama’s refusal to use his position as president to intervene on behalf of African Americans is a stain on his record many activists will never forget In the first hours…

  • Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama

    Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama The Guardian 2017-01-09 Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again. Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility Eight years ago the world was on the…

  • Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die?

    Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die? Code Switch: Race And Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2017-01-14 Leah Donnella Shelly Fields is a 46-year-old white woman living in Richton Park, a racially diverse Chicago suburb. She says she’s raised her four daughters, who are biracial, to see people of all races as equal, just as…

  • Katherine Johnson, Va. woman at center of ‘Hidden Figures,’ calls calculation ‘piece of cake’

    Katherine Johnson, Va. woman at center of ‘Hidden Figures,’ calls calculation ‘piece of cake’ CBS 6, WTVR-TV Richmond Virginia 2017-01-13 HAMPTON, Va. — It is the untold story that has been hidden in Hampton for decades. The box office hit “Hidden Figures” highlights the black female mathematicians at NASA who’s brain power helped launch the first…

  • Farewell to the chief

    Farewell to the chief The Times of London 2017-01-15 Trevor Phillips April 22, 2013: the president pauses for a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings PETE SOUZA After eight years in the White House, Barack Obama relinquishes the top job this Friday. Trevor Phillips criticises his legacy on…

  • How Black America Saw Obama

    How Black America Saw Obama The New York Times 2017-01-14 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. I stood in Grant Park on election night 2008, along with more than 200,000 other people, and watched as a man I’d known as a fellow member of a Chicago church, a man I’d worked…

  • No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them)

    No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them) The New York Times 2017-01-14 Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS Suzanne Young Murray Professor Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University We can’t create a more just nation simply by dressing up institutions in more shades of brown. Now we must…

  • A Blaxican’s Journey through Fresno’s Racial Landscape

    A Blaxican’s Journey through Fresno’s Racial Landscape Tropics Of Meta: historiography for the masses 2017-01-13 Raymond A. Rey In the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new on the turntables: by extending the beat, breaking and scratching the record, he allowed people to dance longer and entertained them with his rhymes as an MC.…

  • Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race

    Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race The New York Times 2017-01-15 Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, National Reporter Tensions across the country prompted the president to abandon his early reticence on race again and again. WASHINGTON — Only weeks after 70 million Americans chose a black man for president,…

  • A Conversation With Natalie Scenters-Zapico

    Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. She is the author of The Verging Cities, which won the 2016 Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas FOCO Award, was featured as a top ten debut of…