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  • Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide

    Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2015-09-08 384 pages Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.21 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780062305251 Paperback ISBN: 9780062305268 E-book ISBN: 9780062305275 Joy-Ann Reid Barack Obama’s speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of…

  • This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable

    This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable The Washington Post 2016-02-20 Janell Ross Clark Reynolds, 3, is greeted by President Obama during a Black History Month Celebration held Feb.18, 2016, at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Pete Souza/White House) For 3-year-old Clark Reynolds, Thursday began…

  • I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show

    I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show The Guardian 2016-02-20 Brittany Packnett The author sits beside Barack Obama’s in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 18 February. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Some political meetings devolve into theater. Not this one: we all spoke direct truth to…

  • The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

    The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016-02-02 368 pages 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780544387669 eBook ISBN: 9780544386426 Paperback ISBN: 9780544811805 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race…

  • Black Lives Matter Activist Says Obama Meeting Was Positive

    Black Lives Matter Activist Says Obama Meeting Was Positive TIME 2016-02-18 Maya Rhodan WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 18: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) speaks about race relations while flanked by Brittany Packnett (L), and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, February 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. President Obama met…

  • Bill Clinton downplays Obama: ‘We’re all mixed-race people’

    Bill Clinton downplays Obama: ‘We’re all mixed-race people’ The New York Post 2016-02-14 Aaron Short Bill Clinton still wants to be known as America’s “first black president.” The former president downplayed President Obama’s historic presidency, telling a Memphis crowd Friday everyone has some African ancestry. “Unless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100 percent,…

  • Is Obama a black man?

    Is Obama a black man? The Independent: You Buy the Truth, We Pay the Price Kololo, Kampala, Uganda 2016-02-08 Andrew M. Mwenda, Founder and Owner How he has accepted the categorisation imposed upon him by a racial system that subjugated black people US President Barak Obama calls himself a black man. Indeed, America and the…

  • I Heart Obama

    I Heart Obama University Press of New England 2016-02-09 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61168-536-7 Ebook IBSN: 978-1-61168-967-9 Erin Aubry Kaplan A personal and cultural exploration of Barack Obama as black president, black icon, and black folk hero In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status…

  • Obama as Text: The Crisis of Double-Consciousness

    Obama as Text: The Crisis of Double-Consciousness Comparative American Studies Volume 10, Issue 2/3 (August 2012) pages 211-225 DOI: 10.1179/1477570012Z.00000000016 Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English Princeton University The argument of this essay is that given the unique circumstances of his life, including his location in multiple spaces of cultural identity, Obama is an…

  • Review ‘Democracy in Black’ is a bracing call to action for African Americans

    Review ‘Democracy in Black’ is a bracing call to action for African Americans The Los Angeles Times 2016-01-21 Kiese Laymon, Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (New York: Crown, 2016) “We laud our democratic virtues to others and represent…