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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.…

  • Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration

    Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Graywolf Press 2009-02-06 28 pages Trim Size: 4 5/8 x 6 1/2 ISBN: 978-1-55597-545-6 Elizabeth Alexander Available in an elegant chapbook, Elizabeth Alexander’s historic poem, read at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the…

  • 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…

  • CNN’s Candy Crowley interviews President Barack Obama

    CNN’s Candy Crowley interviews President Barack Obama Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-12-21 For his last interview of the year, President Obama sat down, exclusively, with CNN’s Candy Crowley to discuss North Korea’s cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, normalizing relations with Cuba, Russia, Iran, race relations in America and Guantanamo Bay. The interview aired Sunday, December 21st,…

  • ‘I move back and forth between the racial divides’: President Obama opens up on his mixed-race background and says it helps him recognize that most Americans have good intentions

    ‘I move back and forth between the racial divides’: President Obama opens up on his mixed-race background and says it helps him recognize that most Americans have good intentions The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2014-12-21 Francesca Chambers, Political Reporter ‘There’s no doubt that…I move back and forth between the racial divides,’ Obama told CNN…

  • Vincent van Gogh and Barack Obama in a poem by Derek Walcott

    Vincent van Gogh and Barack Obama in a poem by Derek Walcott Literature & Aesthetics Volume 20, Number 2 (December 2010) pages 181-192 Thijs Weststeijn Department of Art, Religion, and Cultural Sciences University of Amsterdam Remember Vincent, saint of all sunstroke…! The sun explodes into irises, the shadows are crossing like crows, they settle, clawing…

  • Obama’s message of hope and change is all but lost amid the chaos of Ferguson

    Obama’s message of hope and change is all but lost amid the chaos of Ferguson The Guardian 2014-08-22 Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York The president is being pressed to take sides in a personal, political and structural tragedy in a divided nation In 2008, the year…

  • The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences

    The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences People Magazine 2014-12-17 Sandra Sobieraj Westfall Barack and Michelle Obama (Gillian Laub) The Obamas open up about raising their daughters, the impact of stereotypes, and what’s on the POTUS dance party playlist. The protective bubble that comes with the presidency – the armored limo, the…

  • Mr. Obama Considers the Nationwide Protests From Three Points of View

    Mr. Obama Considers the Nationwide Protests From Three Points of View The New York Times 2014-12-12 Brent Staples, Editorial Writer Barack Obama understood when he sought the presidency that a black candidate who spoke candidly about racism would never attract enough white support to win. He avoided using race as a platform for grievance, kept…

  • How Racists and Partisans Exploit the Age of Obama

    How Racists and Partisans Exploit the Age of Obama The Atlantic 2014-12-11 Norm Ornstein Since 2008, the Democratic Party has increasingly become the home of minorities, while the Republican Party draws its support from whites. One of my fondest memories was spending four days in February 1977 as a staffer sitting on the Senate floor,…