Category: Media Archive

  • Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala The Americas Volume 69, Number 1, July 2012 pages 1-36 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2012.0060 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to…

  • Anne Wiggins Brown (1912-2009) Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music 2012-01-29 Randye Jones Soprano Anne Wiggins Brown was born on August 9, 1912, in Baltimore, Maryland. (This year, rather than 1915, was confirmed by the singer herself.) Her father, Dr. Harry F. Brown, was a prominent physician and grandson of a slave. Her mother, Mary Wiggins…

  • ‘I don’t believe in Negro symphony conductors’ On An Overgrown Path 2011-07-25 John McLaughlin Williams ‘Oh, come in, young man. I’m reading these reviews. They are out of this world. You really have something. But I might as well tell you, right now, I don’t believe in Negro symphony conductors. No, you may play solo…

  • Why Affirmative Action Remains Essential in the Age of Obama Campbell Law Review Volume 31, Issue 3 (2009) pages 503-533 Reginald T. Shuford, Senior Staff Attorney, Racial Justice Program American Civil Liberties Union Foundation With the election of Barack Obama to the most powerful position in the world, the presidency of the United States of…

  • Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Talks Gay Marriage And LGBT Rights The Huffington Post 2012-09-12 Michelangelo Signorile Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo is going “full steam ahead” after his battle with Maryland legislator C. Emmett Burns Jr., who last week wrote a letter calling on the team’s owner to silence Ayanbadejo regarding his public advocacy…

  • Creating the Covers of Our Own Books: A Look at Multiracial Identity Communication Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington December 2011 63 pages Helyse Sina Turner A Thesis Presented to the Faculty in Communication and Leadership Studies School of Professional Studies Gonzaga University, In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Communication…

  • Young Barry Wins The New York Review of Books 2012-08-16 Darryl Pinckney Barack Obama: The Story. By David Maraniss. Simon and Schuster, 641 pp. A white friend told me recently that he heard someone complain that he’d voted for the black guy last time around, did he have to do it again—as if Obama’s election…

  • ‘Thrall’ by Natasha Trethewey, the poet laureate of the United States The Washington Post 2012-09-13 Elizabeth Lund Thrall. By Natasha Trethewey. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 84 pp. Natasha Trethewey’s “Thrall” is a must-read collection that equals the power and quality of her third book, “Native Guard,” which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize . “Thrall” also demonstrates…

  • Lawsuit Challenging Obama’s Qualifications Is Tossed Out In Federal Court AlaskaPublic.org 2012-09-12 Matt Miller, KTOO – Juneau An Alaska-based federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s qualifications to appear as a candidate on the November general election ballot. Gordon Warren Epperly of Juneau claims that Obama does not have the political…

  • Elections division turns aside Obama nomination challenge KTOO News: Public Radio at 104.3 Juneau, Alaska 2012-03-06 Matt Miller The state Division of Elections has turned down a challenge of President Barack Obama’s qualifications to be on the election ballot in Alaska. The challenge was filed by a Juneau resident who says the Democratic candidate is…