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  • Read the Full Transcript of TIME’s Conversation With President Obama and Misty Copeland

    Read the Full Transcript of TIME’s Conversation With President Obama and Misty Copeland TIME 2016-03-14 Maya Rhodan, White House Reporter The first African American president and the first black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater have much more in common than their success. Both have risen to the pinnacle of institutions that have historically…

  • Proud of Obama’s Presidency, Blacks Are Sad to See Him Go

    Proud of Obama’s Presidency, Blacks Are Sad to See Him Go The New York Times 2016-03-12 Yamiche Alcindor CHICAGO — In his 30s and 40s, the Rev. C.T. Vivian rode with the Freedom Riders, organized sit-ins in Nashville and worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many years later, before the 2008…

  • Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio’s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign

    Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio’s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign University of Michigan Haven Hall, Room 4701 505 State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Michelle May-Curry American Culture Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. Dinner…

  • How Trump Happened

    How Trump Happened Slate 2016-03-13 Jamelle Bouie, Chief Political Correspondent It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically,…

  • Variations on racial tension

    Variations on racial tension The Harvard Gazette 2016-02-26 John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent For every nation, a different set of challenges, panelists say A panel discussion Wednesday highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality. Tracing evolving attitudes toward race and discrimination in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, a trio…

  • The Curious Presidency of Barack Obama

    The Curious Presidency of Barack Obama Political Insight Volume 7, Number 1 (April 2016) pages 8-11 DOI: 10.1177/2041905816637452 James D. Boys, Associate Professor of International Political Studies Richmond University, London, United Kingdom After two terms in the White House, Barack Obama’s Presidency has entered its final year. James D. Boys assesses his record in office…

  • 2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference

    2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference Duke University Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Durham, North Carolina 2016-03-04, 09:00-17:30 EST (Local Time) Co-sponsored by FHI Global Brazil Lab and the Duke Brazil Initiative Invited guests include: Keynote: Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (USF) – The Color of Love in Bahia Dr. John Collins…

  • The Professors vs. The President: Has Obama Done Enough for African-Americans?

    The Professors vs. The President: Has Obama Done Enough for African-Americans? NBC News 2016-02-28 Perry Bacon Jr., Senior Political Reporter Michael Eric Dyson and Eddie Glaude Jr., two well-respected black intellectuals and professors, make the same argument in books they have released over the last month: President Obama hasn’t done enough on policy to help…

  • SPEECH OF Hon. Samuel S. Cox. ON MISCEGENATION AND SLAVERY:

    SPEECH OF Hon. Samuel S. Cox. ON MISCEGENATION AND SLAVERY: The Daily Ohio Statesman Columbus, Ohio 1864-02-23 Delivered in the House of Congress on Wednesday, February 17th, 1864. The Bill, To establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs, being under consideration, Mr. Cox had the floor and proceeded to speak. He first discussed some constitutional points that…

  • The Louisiana Convention.

    The Convention for the reconstruction of Louisiana, now in session at New Orleans, is one of the smallest affairs in the way of brains ever before assembled in the United States. It is composed of cooks, boot-blacks, field-hands, bureau officers, and men unknown five miles from their place of residence.