Obama Black Leaders

Can the NAACP Survive President Obama?

John Ridley | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics


John Ridley

The election of Obama as president is something of a "careful what you wish for" situation for one of America's oldest civil rights organizations.

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leaders Speak Of Obama With Awe

The Daily Beast | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


"I've been able to see our nation get better," the Rev. Jesse Jackson muses, in joyful anticipation of Barack Obama's impending presidential victory. ...

NYT Mag: Is Obama The End Of Black Politics?

NY Times | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics


Forty-seven years after he last looked out from behind the bars of a South Carolina jail cell, locked away for leading a march against segregation in ...