Tag: The New York Times

  • 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…

  • Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-06 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Emily S. Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy California State University, Fullerton This is the ninth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is…

  • Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, Leaps to Forefront of Senate Race The New York Times 2015-03-27 Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles Bureau Chief CASTAIC, Calif. — When Kamala D. Harris, a Democrat, was the newly elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2004, she walked into a firestorm after deciding not to pursue the death penalty…

  • Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ The New York Times 2015-03-30 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States. “I never…

  • Alabama Shakes’s Soul-Stirring, Shape-Shifting New Sound The New York Times Magazine 2015-03-18 Joe Rhodes With its highly anticipated second album, this band of small-town misfits finally has a ticket out — not that they would ever leave. In the upstairs dressing room at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga., in January, Alabama Shakes was getting…