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  • Honor and Effort: What President Obama Achieved in Eight Years

    Honor and Effort: What President Obama Achieved in Eight Years TIME 2016-12-22 David Von Drehle Brendan Smialowski—Getty Images Barack Obama smiles while speaking during the 36th annual National Italian American Foundation Gala on Oct. 29, 2011. Barack Obama entered the White House as something new in American history. He wasn’t chosen on the basis of…

  • Watch The Trailer For Barry, Netflix’s Barack Obama Biopic

    Watch The Trailer For Barry, Netflix’s Barack Obama Biopic TIME 2016-11-22 Nash Jenkins There are just under two months until Donald Trump is inaugurated, but a sentimental nostalgia for Barack Obama’s presidency has been building for quite some time. The new trailer for Barry, a biographical film about Obama’s days as a student at Columbia…

  • The White and Black Worlds of Loving v. Virginia

    The White and Black Worlds of Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-11-04 Arica L. Coleman AP Photo Richard and Mildred Loving on this Jan. 26, 1965, prior to filing a suit at Federal Court in Richmond, Va. Richard and Mildred Loving—the couple who inspired the new film Loving—lived in a world where race was not simply…

  • What Loving Can Show Us About Multiracial Parenting

    What Loving Can Show Us About Multiracial Parenting TIME 2016-10-31 Lise Ragbir, Public Voices Fellow and Director of the Warfield Center Gallery University of Texas, Austin Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in Loving. (Focus Features) ‘Let’s stop assuming all families are one color’ America has come a long way since Mildred and Richard Loving took…

  • Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel

    Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel TIME 2016-10-03 John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University, New York, New York ‘We must understand what Kaepernick is protesting’ The idea that Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem is unpatriotic fails doubly: first, in a mistaken notion of what…

  • What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia

    What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-06-10 Arica L. Coleman The landmark civil rights Supreme Court case—which made it illegal to ban interracial marriage—was about more than black and white When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Loving v. the Commonwealth of Virginia, defendants Richard and Mildred Loving chose not…

  • Obama praises wife Michelle’s curves as he sits down with prima ballerina Misty Copeland for interview about body image and growing up black in America

    Obama praises wife Michelle’s curves as he sits down with prima ballerina Misty Copeland for interview about body image and growing up black in America The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-03-14 The president and ballerina interviewed each other for TIME magazine Copeland is the first ever African American to be named the principal dancer…

  • Read the Full Transcript of TIME’s Conversation With President Obama and Misty Copeland

    Read the Full Transcript of TIME’s Conversation With President Obama and Misty Copeland TIME 2016-03-14 Maya Rhodan, White House Reporter The first African American president and the first black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater have much more in common than their success. Both have risen to the pinnacle of institutions that have historically…

  • Black Lives Matter Activist Says Obama Meeting Was Positive

    Black Lives Matter Activist Says Obama Meeting Was Positive TIME 2016-02-18 Maya Rhodan WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 18: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) speaks about race relations while flanked by Brittany Packnett (L), and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, February 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. President Obama met…

  • Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial

    Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial TIME Magazine 2016-01-28 Carey Wallace Study suggests it’s because they’re considered “intriguing.” One of the fastest growing racial groups in the country isn’t a single racial group–it’s people from multiracial backgrounds, the children of interracial unions. A new study has found however, that…