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Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.
Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics
Republicans needed a public relations break more so than a Michael Steele, a fact that will show itself much sooner rather than later.
Vickie Karp | Posted 03.01.2009 | Entertainment
SC: I don't think stereotypes can be avoided. If someone's going to be sexist, racist, or anti-Semitic, they don't need you to help them.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 02.28.2009 | Style
Instead of complaining about why Mrs. Obama did not wear a black designer's dress to the inaugural festivities, take the opportunity to send your samples to the First Lady.
Quinn Bradlee | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living
As someone who lives with learning disabilities, Obama's ability to transcend stigma and bridge gaps in our society has made me feel part of the world.
Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.
Frankie Martin | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
My team and I were on Sapelo Island, off the coast of Georgia, to investigate links between the US and Islam going back centuries to the Africans brought to this country as slaves.
Raafi Rivero | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
YouTube has become the default TV of the Internet. This is remarkable considering that a) It did not exist during the last presidential campaign and b) so much of the content is by non-professionals.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
I was able to shed tears of joy on a number of occasions this Tuesday. I wasn't just relieved that a Democrat had won the White House. I was actually... happy.
Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
This afternoon, the descendants of slaves bore witness to an event their forebears could not have imagined: the inauguration of an African American as President of the United States.
Karen Bass | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Just as Martin Luther King's dream could not have endured if it was his alone, President Obama's hope and promise can't endure if we don't help shoulder the burden.
Michael L. Millenson | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
There is a Jewish prayer that captures the sense of relief, gratitude, and joy that so many of us feel as Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States. It is called the Shehechiyanu.
Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
If a white man with Clarence Thomas's meager background of minor government bureaucrat had been put up for the Supreme Court, there would have been outrage. Except that he was Black.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
A percentage of whites who said they'd vote for Obama also said that blacks were more crime prone than whites. Yet Obama was seen as a racial exception, the penchant for making these distinctions between blacks.
Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.
Lola Adesioye | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
After Obama's election, many in the media asked if black people can still claim that American society is a racist society if a black man can reach the highest office in the land, and even the world.
Pamela Gentry | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
As recent as 2006, three African-Americans ran for high-profile statewide office on the Republican ticket and all were defeated by considerable margins.
Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
We'd like to state the case for the youth vote as being crucial in understanding the Obama victory and what it means for the future. The youth vote deserves a lot of respect in its shaping of the electoral map.
Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.
Eric Copage | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
What if black Americans recognized Dr. King's birthday on the actual day of his birth, today, January 15th? We would make a collective decision, without asking anyone's permission, to exercise our freedom.
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living