Tag: New York Times

  • Mystery, and Discovery, on the Trail of a Creole Music Pioneer The New York Times 2015-05-28 Campbell Robertson, Southern correspondent PINEVILLE, La. — Somewhere among the thousands beneath a grassy hill here lies the body of Amédé Ardoin. He was singular in life: one of the greatest accordion players ever to come out of south…

  • Obama’s Twitter Debut, @POTUS, Attracts Hate-Filled Posts The New York Times 2015-05-21 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — When President Obama sent his inaugural Twitter post from the Oval Office on Monday, the White House heralded the event with fanfare, posting a photograph of him perched on his desk tapping out his message…

  • The Case for Black Doctors The New York Times 2015-05-15 Damon Tweedy, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Duke University, Durham, North Carolina DURHAM, N.C. — IN virtually every field of medicine, black patients as a group fare the worst. This was one of my first and most painful lessons as a medical student…

  • Two Takes on ‘Imitation of Life’: Exploitation in Eastmancolor The New York Times 2015-05-14 J. Hoberman “I would have made the picture just for the title,” Douglas Sirk said of his last Hollywood production, “Imitation of Life” (1959). But, newly released on Blu-ray by Universal, along with its original version, directed in 1934 by John…

  • No Charges for Wisconsin Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teenager The New York Times 2015-05-12 Richard Pérez-Peña (@perezpena), National Desk A Madison, Wis., police officer who killed an unarmed black man in March, in one of a spate of similar incidents that have set off protests around the country, will not face criminal charges,…

  • Dianne White Clatto, Weathercaster Who Broke a Color Barrier, Dies at 76 The New York Times 2015-05-07 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent (@samrob12) Dianne White Clatto, in 1967, giving the weather report on KSD-TV. Credit St. Louis Post-Dispatch Twelve years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse, Dianne…

  • President Obama Condemns Both the Baltimore Riots and the Nation’s ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’ The New York Times 2015-04-28 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent Matt Apuzzo WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in confrontations…

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Complexities of Black Folk The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-16 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Law and Philosophy New York University Kwame Anthony Appiah This is the 10th in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting…

  • White Parents, Becoming a Little Less White Motherlode: Living the Family Dynamic The New York Times 2015-04-15 Jack Cheng Amy Crosson Former Gov. Jeb Bush made news recently because he checked “Hispanic” on a voter registration form. This is obviously ridiculous from a scion of the Bush family (and Mr. Bush has said he made…

  • A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks The New York Times 2015-04-11 The Editorial Board It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive. Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused…