Tag: New York Times

  • President Obama’s Racial Renaissance The New York Times 2015-08-01 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Toyin Odutola We finally have the president we thought we elected: one who talks directly and forcefully about race and human rights. When President Obama took the podium at the annual convention of the N.A.A.C.P. in…

  • Walter White, 61, Dies in Home Here The New York Times 1955-03-22 Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died last night of a heart attack at his home at his home, 242 East Sixty-eighth Street. He was 61 years old. Last October he twice entered the New…

  • Q. What have you learned about race while working on this documentary? A. That the conversation has just started. And a lot of the time it’s framed as black and white. Well, where do Latinos and Asians fit in that conversation? Where do biracial people fit into that conversation? Where do multiracial people fit into…

  • Jose Antonio Vargas on Donald Trump, Rachel Dolezal and His MTV Documentary, ‘White People’ The New York Times 2015-07-22 Jonathan Wolfe Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and immigration activist. His new documentary “White People,” which airs tonight on MTV, follows Mr. Vargas as he travels the country speaking to young people about…

  • ‘Key & Peele’ to End After Its Fifth Season The New York Times 2015-07-25 Jonah Bromwich The Comedy Central show “Key & Peele,” an absurdist sketch comedy that has become known for recurring skits like one in which an “anger translator” expresses emotions on President Obama’s behalf, will end after its current season. Speaking to…

  • Layers of Meaning in Mr. Obama’s Kenya Trip The New York Times 2015-07-23 The Editorial Board Nairobi, Kenya (Credit: Ben Curtis/Associated Press) There often comes a time in the lives of Americans when they feel drawn to explore their roots, a quest that might take them on a pilgrimage to the “old country,” whether County…

  • Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel The New York Times 2015-07-14 Dwight Garner Fran Ross’s first and only novel, “Oreo,” was published in 1974, four years after Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and two years before Alex Haley’s “Roots.” It wasn’t reviewed in The New York Times; it was hardly reviewed anywhere.…

  • Black Dancers, White Ballets The New York Times 2015-07-15 Laurie A. Woodard New York University MISTY COPELAND’S elevation to principal dancer with American Ballet Theater is a tremendous accomplishment for her as a ballet dancer and as an African-American ballerina. Neither her talent nor her achievement should be underestimated. But even as she reaches the…

  • CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic The New York Times 2015-07-13 Sandra E. Garcia Scholars at the City University of New York are using clues left in 16th-century manuscripts and Spanish records to track the lives of the earliest black Africans in the Dominican Republic. An exhibition now on view…

  • A Bias More Than Skin Deep The New York Times 2015-07-13 Charles M. Blow I will never forget the October 2013 feature on National Geographic’s website: There was a pair of portraits of olive-skinned, ruby-lipped boys, one with a mane of curly black hair, the other with the tendrils of blond curls falling into his…