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  • Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency?

    Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency? NewBlackMan (in Exile) 2015-04-24 Mark Anthony Neal, Host and Professor of African & African American Studies Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke University University Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of the classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality…

  • Color Blindness and Racial Politics in the Era of Obama

    Color Blindness and Racial Politics in the Era of Obama Books & Ideas 2010-12-08 Andrew J. Diamond, Professor of American History and Civilization Université Paris-Sorbonne, France At a time when a supposedly “post-racial” America is becoming increasingly polarized over its first black president, historian Thomas Sugrue proposes a badly needed perspective on Obama’s attempts to…

  • Obama on Racism circa 1995

    Obama on Racism circa 1995 Horizons: Nancy LeTourneau’s big picture look at politics and life 2015-04-16 Nancy LeTourneau It is always fascinating to find articles and video about Barack Obama from the past. Recently a group called 22-CityView in Cambridge released the video of a reading and book discussion on Dreams From My Father by…

  • Obama’s Mother

    Obama’s Mother Books & Ideas 2009-05-20 Gloria Origgi The American presidential election was won by a woman: Stanley Ann Dunham. Born in 1942, she died of cancer in 1995, shortly after turning 52, and thus without having seen her visionary dream realized: the election of her son, Barack Hussein Obama, as 44th President of the…

  • A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks

    A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks The New York Times 2015-04-11 The Editorial Board It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive. Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused…

  • Michelle Obama: A Life

    Michelle Obama: A Life Knopf 2015-04-07 432 pages 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-95882-2 Peter Slevin, Associate Professor of Journalism Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois An inspiring story, richly detailed and written with élan, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times…

  • The Rock Obama Cold Open – SNL

    The Rock Obama Cold Open – SNL Saturday Night Live National Broadcasting Company (NBC) 2015-03-28 After the actions of Rep. John Boehner (Taran Killam), Sen. Ted Cruz (Bobby Moynihan) and Sen. Tom Cotton (Kyle Mooney) make him lose his cool, President Obama (Jay Pharoah) turns into The Rock Obama (Dwayne Johnson).

  • EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama’s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man

    EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama’s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man The New York Daily News 2015-03-18 Celeste Katz Long before Michelle Obama became First Lady, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named Barack Obama — because he was biracial. In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama’s…

  • Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’

    Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’ The New York Times 2015-03-07 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Richard Fausset Doug Mills/The New York Times SELMA, Ala. — As a new generation struggles over race and power in America, President Obama and a host of political figures from both…

  • Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma

    Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma The New York Times 2015-03-06 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the nation’s first African-American president, it was a week of two documents that told the story of a country still grappling with its own…