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My President Was Black
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Drawing on conversations with President Barack Obama during his last year in office, Te-Nehisi Coates assesses the Obama Presidency and his legacy on race. ( The Atlantic, Jan./Feb., 2017) “[I]f his very existence inflamed America’s racist conscience, it also expanded…
Read MoreCategory: interview, Opinion Tags: Barack Obama, Presidency, Te-Nehisi Coates, The Daily Show, Trevor Noah
Free Speech and a Fake Lynching
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University of Wisconsin says fans’ offensive costumes depicting a lynched President Obama are protected by First Amendment. Black alumni say incident is the latest in “a long pattern of ineffective responses to a growing racially hostile environment.” WARNING: This article…
Read MoreCategory: Article Tags: Barack Obama, costume, free speech, hostility, Inside Higher Ed, Jake New, Rebecca Blank, University of Wisconsin
Ziad Ahmed Goes to Washington
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Ziad Ahmed, 16, the founder of an anti-bias organization and a youth member of the board of Not in Our Town Princeton, was invited to the White House for dinner with the president (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson). Reason: he had transformed…
Read MoreCommemoration of Selma, Protest in Madison, Wisconsin
Posted on by lindaoppenheim
President Obama spoke at the 50th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the attack on marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, demanding the right to vote. A couple of days earlier, in Madison, Wisconsin, marchers…
Read MoreCategory: Article, Events Tags: Barack Obama, commemoration, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Ferguson, Madison, march, police, protest, Selma, shooting, Tony Robinson, Voting Rights Act
Chicago Boy Asks Santa for Safety
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This one will break your heart. In response to a Chicago charity’s “Letters to Santa” program, a 13-year-old boy wrote a letter asking for safety.
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Barack Obama, Chicago, children, safety, violence
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