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  • President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race

    President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race The New York Times 2013-08-27 Peter Baker WASHINGTON — Sitting in the Roosevelt Room with prominent African-American religious leaders, President Obama on Monday mused about how far the nation had come in the 50 years since the March on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

  • Heidi Durrow discusses her novel “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky”

    Heidi Durrow discusses her novel “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC Radio (93.9 FM or 820 AM) Friday, 2010-05-14, 12:00-14:00 EDT (16:00-18:00Z) Leonard Lopate, Host Heidi W. Durrow, Author Destruction, Restoration We’ll look into how Europe’s economic problems are creating political problems—we’ll check in on the state of the…

  • Despite ‘Enormous Strides,’ Minorities Still Face Barriers, President Says

    Despite ‘Enormous Strides,’ Minorities Still Face Barriers, President Says The New York Times 2013-08-23 John Hurdle and Peter Baker SCRANTON, Pa. — President Obama declared on Friday that the United States had made “enormous strides” in race relations since the March on Washington 50 years ago, but said “institutional barriers” for African-Americans and other minorities…

  • Children born in the last eight years will only know an African-American man being president of the United States.

    “Children born in the last eight years will only know an African-American man being president of the United States. That changes the bar for all of our children, regardless of their race, their sexual orientation, their gender. It expands the scope of opportunity in their minds. And that’s where change happens.” —First Lady, Michelle Obama…

  • Michelle Obama on the Move: What Will She Do Next?

    Michelle Obama on the Move: What Will She Do Next? Parade 2013-08-17 Maggie Murphy, Editor in Chief Lynn Sherr, Contributor America’s most famous mom takes her fight against childhood obesity to the next level, gears up for parenting teenagers, and admits to hitting her stride as first lady. Read the Parade cover story below and…

  • Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation’s continued racial divide

    Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation’s continued racial divide The Washington Post 2013-08-15 Philip Rucker SEDALIA, Mo. — As some people at the Missouri State Fair see it, the rodeo incident last weekend in which a ringleader taunted a clown wearing a mask of President Obama and played with his lips as a bull charged…

  • Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race

    Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2013-08-13 Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent and Host Ari Schapiro, White House Correspondent On race, Barack Obama often says he is not president of black America, but of the United States of America. Though he has not avoided the subject during his…

  • We biracials can claim a unique role in race dialogue

    We biracials can claim a unique role in race dialogue The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2013-07-28 Lucinda Roy, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Following a keynote on diversity I delivered recently, a woman approached me and commented on the fact that I had referred to myself as biracial. She…

  • Obama as Wounded Healer

    Obama as Wounded Healer Psychology Today Ideals in Question: Exploring values in psychotherapeutic culture 2013-08-02 Stephen Salter, Psy.D. Validating the context of racial trauma On July 19th, Barack Obama honored the life of Trayvon Martin by giving voice to the history of racial trauma in the African American community.  “It could have been me,” Obama…

  • Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S.

    Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S. Racism Review 2013-07-21 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University President Obama’s poignant comments on the white-racist discrimination that Black men regularly face were pathbreaking for this country. First, in the history of the U.S. never has…