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  • 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States

    44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States Third World Press 2011-03-29 319 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0883783177 Edited by: Lita Hooper, Sonia Sanchez, and Michael Simanga To give voice to the historic election of President Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United…

  • Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilema

    Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilema Third World Press February 2009 199 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0883783092 Rickey Hendon Foreword by: Hermene D. Hartman Barack is caught between two worlds and struggles for acceptance by either side-Black enough? White enough? It’s a fine line that he must walk, writes Illinois state Senator Rickey Hendon, in Black…

  • President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa

    President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa The New York Review of Books 2015-11-05 President Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson President Obama and Marilynne Robinson at the Iowa State Library, Des Moines, September 2015 (Pete Souza/White House) The following conversation between President Obama and Marilynne Robinson was conducted in Des Moines, Iowa, on September…

  • A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency

    A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, Spring 2009 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090018 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political…

  • NASA Mathematician Receives Medal of Freedom

    NASA Mathematician Receives Medal of Freedom NBC News 2015-11-25 Katherine G. Johnson calculated the flight path for the first American mission to space. The 97-year-old was one of 17 Americans who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday.

  • President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

    President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Office of the Press Secretary The White House Washington, D.C. 2015-11-16 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially…

  • People talked of a ‘post-racial’ US when I arrived in 2008. That seems ludicrous now

    People talked of a ‘post-racial’ US when I arrived in 2008. That seems ludicrous now The Guardian 2015-11-13 Hari Kunzru I arrived in New York in 2008, in the midst of a bitterly fought election campaign. When Barack Obama declared victory, I was standing at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President

    Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’

    Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ The Nation 2015-10-12 William Greider Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners. Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump —…

  • The Year We Obsessed Over Identity

    2015’s headlines and cultural events have confronted us with the malleability of racial, gender, sexual and reputational lines. Who do we think we are?