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  • Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race

    Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race The Washington Post 2013-10-16 Sean Sullivan Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising national Democratic star, was elected to the U.S. Senate Wednesday and will become New Jersey’s first ever African American senator. Booker defeated Republican Steve Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota. With 58 percent of the vote…

  • Albert Murray, author who drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz, dies at 97

    Albert Murray, author who drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz, dies at 97 The Washington Post 2013-08-19 Adam Bernstein, Reporter Albert Murray, a self-described “riff-style intellectual” whose novels, nonfiction books and essays drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz and whose works underscored how black culture and the blues in particular were braided into…

  • 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 on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American

    Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American The Washington Post 2013-07-20 David Maraniss Trayvon Martin, the president said, could have been him 35 years ago. That would have been Barack Obama at age 17, then known as Barry and living in Honolulu. He had a bushy Afro.…

  • Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin

    Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin The Washington Post 2013-07-20 Dan Balz, Chief Correspondent President Obama’s comments on Friday about the killing of Trayvon Martin were remarkable in many respects, but not least because of the distance he has traveled since the equally notable speech he delivered in 2008 during the controversy about his…

  • The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America

    The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Reniqua Allen, Freelance Journalist and Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow New America Foundation A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades.…

  • A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR’s ranks

    A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR’s ranks The Washington Post 2013-06-29 Darryl Fears Reisha Raney’s role in Friday night’s Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony for the military was minor. She carried Virginia’s flag in a procession that walked a few steps down a carpeted aisle at Constitution Hall and then…

  • Who is Latino?

    Who is Latino? The Washington Post 2013-06-21 Carlos Lozada, Editor of Outlook, The Washington Post’s Sunday section for opinion, analysis ‘Shut up, you stupid Mexican!” The words spewed from the mouth of a pale, freckle-faced boy, taunting me on our elementary school playground. I wish I could recall what I said to inspire the insult.…

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots

    In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…

  • Backlash greets Cheerios ad with interracial family

    Backlash greets Cheerios ad with interracial family The Washington Post 2013-05-31 Mary C. Curtis Here we go again, with more proof, if anyone needed it, that the post-racial American society some hoped the election of an African American president signified is far from here. Who would have thought that breakfast cereal would trigger the latest…