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  • Will Jawando Doesn’t Have To Be The Next Obama

    Will Jawando Doesn’t Have To Be The Next Obama MTV News 2016-04-18 Jamil Smith, Senior National Correspondent There are rules for knocking on someone’s door while campaigning. And Will Jawando, a few weeks back, broke a big one. “Rule 101 in canvassing,” he told MTV News, “is that you don’t go inside.” This makes sense.…

  • Boris Johnson’s Essay on Obama and Churchill Touches Nerve Online

    Boris Johnson’s Essay on Obama and Churchill Touches Nerve Online The New York Times 2016-04-22 Sewell Chan, International News Editor LONDON — Hours after President Obama landed in London to urge Britons to vote to remain in the European Union, Mayor Boris Johnson, arguably the most visible leader of the campaign for Britain to leave…

  • White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008

    White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008 Salon 2016-04-17 Sean McElwee The election of America’s first black president somehow led even more conservative whites to change parties Racism may be the single most important feature of contemporary American politics and the key to understanding the Obama Presidency. This…

  • Obama praises wife Michelle’s curves as he sits down with prima ballerina Misty Copeland for interview about body image and growing up black in America

    Obama praises wife Michelle’s curves as he sits down with prima ballerina Misty Copeland for interview about body image and growing up black in America The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-03-14 The president and ballerina interviewed each other for TIME magazine Copeland is the first ever African American to be named the principal dancer…

  • ‘A black president, yay’: 106-year-old finally meets the Obamas, dances like a schoolgirl

    ‘A black president, yay’: 106-year-old finally meets the Obamas, dances like a schoolgirl The Washington Post 2016-02-22 Michael E. Miller, Morning Mix Reporter Virginia McLaurin’s life isn’t easy. Last winter, she battled bedbugs in her D.C. apartment. This year, snowstorm “Snowzilla” trapped her inside for several days. She also happens to be almost 107 years…

  • What Obama’s visit means for Cuba’s national conversation about race

    What Obama’s visit means for Cuba’s national conversation about race The Los Angeles Times 2016-03-21 Kate Linthicum, Contact Reporter In recent years, Afro-Cuban intellectuals have started gathering in a cramped Havana apartment to discuss a topic long considered off-limits in Cuba: race. Fidel Castro’s communist revolution 60 years ago promised to wipe out racial divisions…

  • Cuba Says It Has Solved Racism. Obama Isn’t So Sure.

    Cuba Says It Has Solved Racism. Obama Isn’t So Sure. The New York Times 2016-03-23 Damien Cave, Deputy Editor for Digital HAVANA — President Obama spoke of his Kenyan heritage. He talked about how both the United States and Cuba were built on the backs of slaves from Africa. He mentioned that not very long…

  • 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…

  • Whose President Was He?

    Whose President Was He? Politico Magazine Volume 3, Number 2 (January/February 2016) [The Obama Issue] Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Barack Obama brushed aside the critics who hated him for his skin color—but failed to see the racial confrontation they foretold. “If I spent all my time thinking about it,…

  • 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…