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  • Opinion: Why Future Politicians Must Embrace Our Composite Nation

    Opinion: Why Future Politicians Must Embrace Our Composite Nation The Next America: How Demography Shapes the National Agenda National Journal 2012-11-14 Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) America is becoming browner—and the ability to harness the changing electorate has become the gold standard for any aspiring…

  • Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign

    Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign The Associated Press 2012-05-05 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Rachel Zoll, National Religion Writer How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs.…

  • Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign

    Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign The Washington Post 2011-11-07 David A. Fahrenthold Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney by reassembling the political coalition that boosted him to victory four years ago and remaking himself from a hopeful uniter into a determined fighter for middle-class…

  • Divided U.S. Gives Obama More Time

    Divided U.S. Gives Obama More Time The New York Times 2012-11-06 Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give…

  • President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election

    President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election BBC News 2012-11-07 President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America’s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. In his victory speech before supporters in Chicago, Mr Obama said he…

  • Claims of Anti-Obama Racism Create Anger, Frustration

    Claims of Anti-Obama Racism Create Anger, Frustration The Associated Press 2012-09-09 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Is it because he’s black? The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are…

  • The Emotional Tug of Obama

    In a story that quickly went viral, The Times’s Jackie Calmes wrote last week about the photograph, which was taken three years ago when the boy, then 5, visited the White House. It has hung there ever since, left on the wall even as other pictures were swapped out, as is the custom, for newer,…

  • Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping

    Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping The New York Times 2012-05-25 Jodi Kantor The United States quietly passed a milestone this spring, mostly lost amid the clamor of the presidential race: for the first time, neither party’s candidate is a white Protestant. The contenders are both from outsider groups that were once persecuted,…

  • Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity

    Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity The New York Times 2012-05-22 Susan Saulny SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking…

  • What’s Race Got to Do With It?

    What’s Race Got to Do With It? The New York Times 2012-01-14 Lee Seigel Mitt Romney may not have officially clinched the Republican nomination, but his victory has never really been in doubt. Nor has his viability in November: the most fanatical Tea Partiers are not about to withhold their votes and risk allowing President…