Tag: New York Times

  • Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism The New York Times 2016-09-17 Philip Galanes Senator Elizabeth Warren, left, and the actress Tracee Ellis Ross having dinner at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times Tracee Ellis Ross may be working 14 hours a day…

  • Unwinding a Lie: Donald Trump and ‘Birtherism’ The New York Times 2016-09-16 Michael Barbaro It was not true in 2011, when Donald J. Trump mischievously began to question President Obama’s birthplace aloud in television interviews. “I’m starting to think that he was not born here,” he said at the time. It was not true in…

  • Trump Drops False ‘Birther’ Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It The New York Times 2016-09-16 Maggie Haberman Alan Rapperport Donald J. Trump publicly retreated from his “birther” campaign on Friday, tersely acknowledging that President Obama was born in the United States and saying that he wanted to move on from the conspiracy…

  • Colin Kaepernick and the Question of Who Gets to Be Called a ‘Patriot’ First Words The New York Times Magazine 2016-09-12 Wesley Morris, Critic-At-Large Citizenship is citizenship, until appearances get in the way. The world now knows, for instance, that Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is protesting racial injustice — all…

  • Books in Brief: Nonfiction The New York Times 1997-10-26 Douglas A. Sylva The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. By Jon Michael Spencer. New York University, $24.95. Many members of minority groups have long argued that society must recognize and accept an individual’s racial identity for that individual to enjoy feelings of self-esteem.…

  • On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race The New York Times 2016-09-05 Cara Buckley, Culture Reporter Katherine Johnson, left, and Christine Darden, two of the former NASA mathematicians in the book “Hidden Figures.” Credit:  Chet Strange for The New York Times HAMPTON, Va. — Growing up here in the 1970s, in…

  • What Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Looks Like to a Black 49ers Fan The New York Times 2016-08-31 Gerald Harris, President and Managing Director The Quantum Planning Group, San Francisco, California Colin Kaepernick Credit Ben Margot/Associated Press San Francisco — Why are we, as sports fans, continually surprised when one of our heroes turns out to be…

  • “Now, I have a black son in Baltimore,” the white police detective remembered thinking as he cradled his baby boy. Rachel L. Swarns, “‘I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease,” The New York Times, August 23, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/i-have-a-black-son-in-baltimore-anxious-new-parents-and-an-era-of-unease.html.

  • BALTIMORE — He assembled the crib and mounted the bookshelves. She unpacked the bedding and filled the closet with onesies and rompers. Then husband and wife stood in the nursery and worried. Bill Janu, a police officer, is white. Shanna Janu, a lawyer, is black. As they eagerly awaited their baby’s birth this spring, they…

  • Nicholas Guyatt’s ‘Bind Us Apart’ Book Reviews The New York Times 2016-04-29 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York BIND US APART How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation By Nicholas Guyatt Illustrated. 403 pp. Basic Books. $29.99. Half a century ago, inspired by the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown…