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  • “That’s one of the fundamental paradoxes of Obama’s presidency — that we have the Black Lives Matter movement under a black president…”

    “That’s one of the fundamental paradoxes of Obama’s presidency — that we have the Black Lives Matter movement under a black president,” says Fredrick Harris, a political scientist at Columbia University. “Your man is in office, and you have this whole movement around criminal-justice reform asserting black people’s humanity?” Jennifer Senior, “The Paradox of the…

  • The Paradox of the First Black President

    As the historic administration nears its final year, African-American leaders debate: Did Barack Obama do enough for his own community?

  • The Trouble With Race

    The Trouble With Race Foreign Affairs March/April 2015 Gideon Rose, Editor Everybody knows that racial tensions have been at the center of American political debate in recent months, but the story of racial and ethnic division is actually a global one, with a long and tortured history. For the lead package in the March/April issue,…

  • The Price of a Black President

    The Price of a Black President The New York Times 2012-10-27 Frederick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science;  Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies; Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society Columbia University WHEN African-Americans go to the polls next week, they are likely to support Barack Obama at a…