Tag: The New York Times

  • In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery The New York Times 2009-10-08 Rachel L. Swarns Jodi Kantor WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung…

  • Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters The New York Times 2009-07-30 Deborah Solomon As the new head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, can you tell us how your organization plans to respond to the case of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who was recently arrested for disorderly…

  • The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky] The New York Times 2010-02-25 Louisa Thomas, Contributing Editor Newsweek Magazine The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. By Heidi W. Durrow. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2010. 264 pages. Cloth ISBN-13: 9781565126800) There’s a reason many great social justice novels are…