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  • Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’

    Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’ The New York Times 2015-03-07 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Richard Fausset Doug Mills/The New York Times SELMA, Ala. — As a new generation struggles over race and power in America, President Obama and a host of political figures from both…

  • Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma

    Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma The New York Times 2015-03-06 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the nation’s first African-American president, it was a week of two documents that told the story of a country still grappling with its own…

  • Man Shot Dead by Police After Scuffle in Wisconsin

    Man Shot Dead by Police After Scuffle in Wisconsin The New York Times 2015-03-07 Ashley Southall A 19-year-old Wisconsin man was shot and killed Friday by a police officer during a scuffle inside an apartment in Madison, police officials said. The shooting prompted protests that continued on Saturday and led officials to call for restraint…

  • Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case

    Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case The New York Times 2015-03-03 Richard Pérez-Peña The climb took decades, but the fall was swift. Less than a year removed from his reign as speaker of the Rhode Island House, Gordon D. Fox pleaded guilty on Tuesday to taking bribes, wire fraud and filing a…

  • Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships across the Color Line

    Unique among books on interracial relationships, this book examines the lives of high profile men who have produced public discourses on race and interracial relationships and who themselves, often contradictory to their rhetoric, were or continue to be involved in love relationships across the color line.

  • Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action

    Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action Carolina Academic Press December 2014 404 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-61163-444-0 Kevin Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Maurer School of Law Indiana University When selective colleges, universities, and graduate programs instituted affirmative action policies in the 1960s, 99.4 percent…

  • Two Worlds Walking: Short Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Writers of Mixed Heritages

    In this landmark collection, 42 writers — including Diane Glancy, Siv Cedering, and Lewis Turco — go beyond a simple idea of diversity to explore what it means to “walk in two worlds.”

  • The Men Who Left Were White

    The Men Who Left Were White Gawker 2014-04-12 Josie Duffy There are three things you should know. First: I’m not biracial. “What are you?” people ask, and they expect me to say something thrilling and tribal. I answer, but still they press. “Where are your ancestors from?” people ask, and they want answers that aren’t…

  • The Next Great Migration

    The Next Great Migration The New York Times 2015-03-01 Thomas Chatterton Williams PARIS — AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews:…

  • The Right Words to Say: On Being Read as White

    The Right Words to Say: On Being Read as White The Toast 2015-03-05 Dahlia Grossman-Heinz When you meet me for the first time, you read me as if I were a book. Every idea you have about me and every word I say is part of that book. When you look at me, you will…