Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Inauguration will cement ties between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. The Washington Post 2013-01-15 Wil Haygood, Reporter President Barack Obama, with the nation and world watching, will share his Inauguration Day spotlight with a Baptist preacher from Georgia who launched a moral crusade six decades ago to wrest America from its brutal Jim Crow laws.…

  • African Americans Reflect on Obama 2nd Inauguration Voice of America 2013-01-15 Chris Simkins WASHINGTON — Americans from across the nation will converge on Washington, DC, next  Monday (January 21) for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. The moment will be especially meaningful for millions of African Americans who will again witness history as the…

  • Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism The Huffington Post 2013-01-09 Tony Castro Some Latino civil rights groups are questioning the U.S. Census consideration of designating Hispanics a race of their own, fearing the loss of national original designations. The change, making “Hispanic” a racial instead of an ethnic category, would eliminate the check-off boxes…

  • Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘settled’ Australia Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; Reprinted 1991 288 pages 240×170 mm ISBN: 9780855751852 Edited by: Ian Keen, Visiting Fellow School of Archaeology and Anthropology College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people…

  • The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams The American Prospect 2012-06-14 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer Liberals are counting on population trends to doom 
Republicans to a long-term minority. They shouldn’t. If Democrats agree on anything, it’s that they will eventually be on the winning side. The white Americans who tend to vote Republican are shrinking as a percentage…

  • Why The Next President Will Probably Be Black Too BuzzFeed 2013-01-03 Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Staff If there is anything approaching an iron law of American politics, it’s this: The next president will be a member of the same race as the current one. It’s a rule that has held through 42 of 43 transfers of…

  • President Obama on “The View” Sojourners: Faith in Action for Social Justice 2010-08-02 Valerie Elverton Dixon Just Peace Theory President Obama visited with the five hosts of the ABC daytime talk show “The View.” People complained. He should have gone to the Boy Scout gathering. The office of the presidency ought to be above such…

  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…

  • Funding Race as Biology: The Relevance of “Race” in Medical Research Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Volume 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2011) pages 571-618 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Note from Steven F.…

  • The Obama Era: A New Age in American Politics The Huffington Post 2012-12-05 Brandon Hill Stanford University Barack Obama’s elections—both 2008 and 2012—have inaugurated a new political reality in America. He has rewritten history in two consecutive elections, and his groundbreaking victories will forever change the game of politics in our country. Before 2008 the…