Barack Obama and the American Dream
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.
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.
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.
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
There was no dancing in the street, but there was rapt attention, and high-fives with big grins for me, one of the few Americans on Gorée Island toda...
Michael Carmichael | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
As Barack Obama approaches the dais to take his oath of office, he is focused on delivering FDR's four freedoms to all Americans, each of which is in danger in America today.
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living
In a grand full circle moment, America's first black president will walk up steps that were built by slaves.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
Like millions of white Americans, I voted for our new black President, and I did so with confidence and enthusiasm, as I would have voted for a savior come to rescue our nation.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?
Foreign Policy | E. Benjamin Skinner | Posted 01.20.2009 | World
There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history. True abolition will elude us until we admit the massive scope of the proble...
Amb. Swanee Hunt and Lina Sidrys Nealon | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Slavery is more prevalent today than at any point in history. Free the Slaves estimates that 27 million people are trapped in debt bondage, domestic servitude, hard labor, or the sex trade.
razoo.com | Kathryn Hawkins | Posted 01.01.2009 | Living
We've all learned about the courageous acts of former slaves in American history like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman--but while the Emancipatio...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
Call Response weaves raw footage shot undercover in brothels and sweatshops in the developing world with talking heads such as Cornel West.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
I would like to see a country where we don't seek to make non-Christian citizens feel like they are not part of the national fabric by pointing out to them, again and again, that they are different than a majority.
Doon Baqi | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Let's make this an American celebration, and not a black or white one. Let us remember that the other half of "united we stand" is "divided we fall."
John Farr | Posted 12.11.2008 | Entertainment
Prior to the 1960s, race portrayals in movies were mostly confined to servants and railroad porters. Only with the advent of the Civil Rights movement did the film industry dare address the authentic black experience.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
OK, I know I am way late for the party here. Everyone has already made their comments about Obama's victory and the smart money has gone home, leaving...
Aram Khayatpour | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
We see history often, but sadly that history is usually tragic: 9/11, Katrina, the war in Iraq, this is the history of my generation, but Tuesday we had a different kind of history being made.
Peter Samuelson | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Today at least, in St. Louis, America looked back on one of the darkest moments in its history, and resoundingly told Judge Taney to go to hell.
David S. Reynolds | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
If the polls are accurate, for the first time an African American is poised to take the nation's highest political office. We can appreciate just how momentous this is by looking back in history.
Lanny Davis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
On Nov. 5, if Obama is the president-elect, I think most people -- regardless of their party or ideology -- will take pride in the fact that America is a purple nation, not a red vs. blue one.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living
Hardly anyone mentions that the "the Bible Belt" and "the Black Belt" refer to essentially the same part of the country. That easily overlooked fact is of enormous significance.
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
The stories of both the Dewolfs and the McCains are significant for what they can teach us about the ongoing legacy of slavery and racism in the U.S.
Tom Gregory | Posted 07.05.2008 | Living
Love, West Hollywood highlights the human side of an inequality that is finally unraveling. We'll see what happens in California in the next six months -- the whole world is watching us.
Sara Davidson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
The day after Obama claimed the nomination, a German newspaper ran a picture of the White House on its front page with the headline, "Uncle Barack's Cabin."
Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Anyone who is the least bit candid on this issue knows that race permeates many aspects of American society. Why wouldn't the race issue pervade the election of a black presidential nominee?
236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
This week, the Florida Legislature formally apologized for the state's involvement in slavery. The two-page resolution passed both houses overwhelming...
Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics