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  • 53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy

    53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy New York 2015-01-11 “It’s a fool’s errand you’re involved in,” warned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood when approached recently by this magazine to predict Barack Obama’s historical legacy. “We live in a fog, and historians decades from now will tell their society what was happening in 2014.…

  • California Attorney General Announces Run for Senate

    California Attorney General Announces Run for Senate The New York Times 2015-01-13 Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Kamala Harris Makes Bid for Barbara Boxer’s Old Seat LOS ANGELES — No exploratory committees here: Kamala D. Harris, the California attorney general, announced on Tuesday she was running for the Senate seat that is opening up…

  • The Police, Immigration and the Racial Divide

    The Police, Immigration and the Racial Divide U.S. News & World Report 2015-01-07 Brad Bannon, President Bannon Communications Research Polls on the police treatment of minorities and public approval of Obamacare reflect the ongoing racial split in this country. Sadly, everything old is new again in race relations in America. Tuesday the headquarters of the…

  • How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America

    How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America The Diane Rehm Show WAMU 88.5 FM Washington, D.C. 2015-01-05 Diane Rehm, Host Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center Jim Tankersley, Economic Policy Correspondent The Washington Post William Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program (author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America)…

  • Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions

    Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions The Upshot The New York Times 2015-01-03 Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics Harvard University The deaths of African-Americans at the hands of the police in Ferguson, Mo., in Cleveland and on Staten Island have reignited a debate about race. Some argue that these events are isolated and…

  • Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95

    Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95 USA Today 2015-01-03 Natalie DiBlasio Former Massachusetts U.S. senator Edward Brooke, the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, has died at age 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday of natural causes at his home in…

  • Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95

    Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95 The New York Times 2015-01-03 Douglas Martin Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla.…

  • Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides

    Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides Salon 2015-01-02 Jim Sleeper Why diverse police forces can’t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment Nearly two decades before last month’s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black…

  • Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family?

    Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family? AlterNet 2014-12-30 Terrell Jermaine Starr, Senior Editor The cops’ fight with the city’s progressive mayor smacks of white supremacy. In September 1992, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops to storm City Hall to protest then-mayor David…

  • WATCH: Jesse Williams of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ on Race

    WATCH: Jesse Williams of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ on Race Heavy 2014-12-22 Paul Farrell, Breaking News Editor Actor Jesse Williams appears in a viral video that was published on December 17. The Grey’s Anatomy star take aim at racism and double standards in America, including public housing discrimination, specifically in Chicago. The star goes on to discuss…