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  • US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War

    US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War The Washington Post 2013-01-30 Ron Charles One hundred and fifty years later, Americans are still fighting the Civil War, US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey said at the Library of Congress on Wednesday. The field of battle is now historical memory, and gatling guns…

  • Harry L. Carrico, Virginia Supreme Court justice, dies at 96

    Harry L. Carrico, Virginia Supreme Court justice, dies at 96 The Washington Post 2013-01-28 Martin Weil Harry L. Carrico, who sat for 42 years on the Virginia Supreme Court and wrote a decision on interracial marriage that was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in what was regarded as a civil rights milestone, died Sunday…

  • With Obama, not a post-racial nation, but something more complex

    With Obama, not a post-racial nation, but something more complex The Washington Post 2013-01-21 Marc Fisher, Staff Writer The huge oil painting propped up on a bridge table at 13th and F streets NW was arresting enough to stop people even as they hurried toward the Mall. There they were, heroes of black America, Malcolm…

  • The liberation of Barack Obama

    The liberation of Barack Obama The Washington Post 2013-01-20 E. J. Dionne Jr., Opinion Writer Barack Hussein Obama can begin his second term liberated by the confidence that he is already a landmark figure in American history. His task is not to manufacture a legacy but to leave his successors a nation that is more…

  • After the first black president, who will be second?

    After the first black president, who will be second? The Washington Post 2013-01-20 Vanessa Williams President Obama’s historic election in 2008 and his reelection last year proved decisively that race is no longer an insurmountable hurdle to high political office in the United States. But the current pool of possible candidates suggests that the next…

  • Inauguration will cement ties between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr.

    Inauguration will cement ties between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. The Washington Post 2013-01-15 Wil Haygood, Reporter President Barack Obama, with the nation and world watching, will share his Inauguration Day spotlight with a Baptist preacher from Georgia who launched a moral crusade six decades ago to wrest America from its brutal Jim Crow laws.…

  • Supreme Court to review key section of Voting Rights Act

    Supreme Court to review key section of Voting Rights Act The Washington Post 2012-11-09 Robert Barnes Aaron C. Davis (contributing) The Supreme Court said Friday it will review a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that has been the federal government’s most forceful tool in protecting minority rights at the polls. The decision ensures…

  • For many blacks, Obama’s reelection cements his legacy

    For many blacks, Obama’s reelection cements his legacy The Washington Post 2012-11-07 Wil Haygood and DeNeen Brown President Obama’s reelection — in a ferocious campaign dotted by charges of racial anger and minority-voter suppression — has provided what many blacks say will surely deepen his legacy: irrefutable evidence that his presidency is hardly a historical…

  • Barack Obama: Let’s not forget that he’s America’s first bi-racial president

    Barack Obama: Let’s not forget that he’s America’s first bi-racial president The Washington Post 2012-11-08 Clinton Yates If I’m lucky enough to have children, I won’t tell them that Barack Obama was America’s first black president. As a black man who plans to eventually start a family with my white girlfriend, I’m going to tell…

  • Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign

    Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign The Washington Post 2011-11-07 David A. Fahrenthold Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney by reassembling the political coalition that boosted him to victory four years ago and remaking himself from a hopeful uniter into a determined fighter for middle-class…