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DeeDee Correll
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 4, 2008
song has prompted a chorus of criticism.Rene Marie's unexpected choice at a mayor's event where she was asked to sing the more traditional
Some Black Republicans Torn About Voting for Obama or McCain
U.S. News
By Nikki Schwab
June 27, 2008
The historic nature of Obama's candidacy has some African-American Republicans conflicted
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Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 8:06 AM
Andrew Romano
“African-American”: meaning what, exactly?
Catherine Parker
Mail & Guardian Online
One of my favourite stories illustrating the fragility of
Africa: Obama 'Reframes the Black Question'
27 June 2008
Posted to the web 27 June 2008
W. Hassan Marsh
Africa: Obama 'Reframes the Black Question'
Does this week's intervention by U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama in the debate over Zimbabwe's election signal that Africa will play a more central role in the foreign policy of an Obama administration? AllAfrica intern W. Hassan Marsh looks at the prospects.
For Blacks in France, Obama’s Rise Is Reason to Rejoice, and to Hope
NY Times
By Michael Kimmelman
June 17, 2008
South Africa: That Attack On Fellow Africans in South Africa
Leadership (Abuja)
10 June 2008
Segun Imohiosen
Abuja
South Africa: Why Victims of Oppression Turned Into Vicious Killers
The Nation (Nairobi)
1 June 2008
Peter Kagwanja
Nairobi
Rev. Jeremiah Wright is right
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
By: Ben Becker
The corporate lynching of a Black reverend
Party for Socialism and Liberation
The ascent of Barack Obama, Mr Charisma
From The Sunday Times
March 23, 2008
He has burst out of obscurity to make a bid for the White House. David James Smith traces the roots of Barack Obama’s ambition.
The Obama Dividend
Jonathan Alter
Mar 22, 2008
Newsweek
Instruct. Illuminate. Rearrange our mental furniture. That's a president's challenge.
The crazy uncles in Obama's attic
By Edward McClelland
March 18, 2008
Will the black nationalists and white lefties who pushed Obama up the political ladder in Chicago prove to be a liability to his White House run?
African American Museum opens to acclaim
By Susan Gilmore
Seattle Times staff reporter
Saturday, March 15, 2008
"It's breathtaking," said DeCarla Estine Williams. "We always had such hope. We as a community worked so hard to make it happen."
South Africa: Video Uproar Betrays Culture of Double Standards
Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 March 2008
Rhoda Kadalie
Johannesburg
University Libraries launches online African American oral history collection
March 12th, 2008
Harlem's identity under threat from developers
By Tom Leonard in New York
11/03/2008
Accused Malcolm X Assassin Maintains Innocence
NPR
February 21, 2008
Forty three years ago today, Malcolm X took to the stage of Harlem's Audubon Ballroom. He was just minutes into what would be his last speech, when assassins seated in the front, stood and opened fire.
Clintons deal with the race card
James Ridgeway
Guardian Unlimited
January 30, 2008
Eight years into the 21st century, does race still matter in American politics? As Louis Armstrong said when someone asked him to define jazz: "If you gotta ask, you'll never know." And no one knows better than the residents of Harlem.
RESEGREGATION OF U.S. SCHOOLS DEEPENING
By Amanda Paulson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
January 25, 2008
CHICAGO - At one time, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina was a model of court-ordered integration. Today, nearly a decade after a court struck down its racial-balancing busing program, the school district is moving in the opposite direction. About half of its elementary schools have 10 percent or fewer white students or 10 percent or fewer African-American students.
Smithsonian helps save African-American treasures
January 21, 2008
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Evelyn Johnson's father has never liked talking about his time in the Army during World War II. He was angry that black servicemen like him fought for freedom overseas only to come home to face discrimination, she says.
African Violence: On Screen, In Court, In the Streets
January 07, 2008
EDITORIAL Slavery's Place in the Capitol
The New York Times
December 21, 2007
The Capitol’s mammoth new visitors’ center is a work in progress bedeviled by cost overruns and mounting delay. The $621 million project is not expected to be ready for tourists until next fall. But the House and Senate have set an encouraging standard, emphasizing the center’s educational mission by naming the main welcoming chamber Emancipation Hall. This honors long-forgotten African-American slaves forced to help build the original Capitol in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Africa: Brisk Trade in Children
Dismas Nkunda
20 December 2007
Defending rights against racism: A black visitor from Africa
Turkish Daily News
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Revealed: scientist who sparked racism row has black genes
The Independent
By Robert Verkaik
December 10, 2007
Debating the effects of August Wilson's success
Baltimore Sun
By Stephanie Shapiro
December 5, 2007
With its intimate account of working-class black men and women, the late August Wilson's 10-play cycle chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century catapulted him into the pantheon of great American playwrights.
For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival
The New York Times
By LAURA BEIL
Published: December 5, 2007
DNA ancestry testing leaves some in doubt
Ron Nixon, New York Times
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose PBS special "African American Lives" explores the ancestry of famous African Americans using DNA testing, has done more than anyone to help popularize such tests and companies that offer them. But recently this Harvard professor has become one of the industry's critics.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Forty acres and a gap in wealth
The Dallas Morning News
December 2, 2007
We can't afford to wait any longer to address the causes of poverty among most black families.
Obama’s Color Line
New York Times
By Juan Williams
November 30, 2007
Study Reveals HIV's Impact on D.C. African American Community
Washington Post Staff Writer
By Susan Levine
November 26, 2007
Harold Washington- The Making of a Mayor
By U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis
November 26, 2007
DNA Tests Find Branches but Few Roots
NY Times
By Ron Nixon
November 25, 2007
Steppenwolf Accepting Applications for African-American Fellowship
Broawayworld.com
Monday, November 19, 2007
THE DNA AGE
International Herald Tribune
By Amy Harmon
November 11, 2007
Bronx resident creates Afrocentric puzzles to teach children about culture
NY Daily News
Clem Richardson
October 29th 2007
Family reunion in black and white
The Christian Science Monitor
By Suzi Parker
October 22, 2007
Africans are less intelligent than Westerners, says DNA pioneer
The Independent
By Cahal Milmo
October 17 2007
One of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London.
African-American Fine Art Increasing in Value
On today's show, Farai spoke with two experts about high-priced black art.
Golden State Mutual, a black-owned insurance company in Los Angeles, auctioned off their entire collection earlier this month. The works sold for more than $1.5 million; some pieces sold for three times their appraised value.
A Beacon of the Harlem Renaissance
Christian Science Monitor
By David Conrads
Aaron Douglas's paintings and illustrations pulsate with the energy and optimism of the Harlem Renaissance, that extraordinary flowering of African-American culture that burst forth in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. While he was not the first black artist to find inspiration in his African heritage, he was the first to consistently blend African imagery with contemporary subject matter and in modernist forms. Douglas, who has been called "the father of black American art," became the premier visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
Brazil's Bahia a link for African Americans
Los Angeles Times
By Patrick J. McDonnell
September 23, 2007
The town of Cachoeira in Bahia state, where black customs still flourish, is a draw for U.S. tourists hungry for tradition.
CACHOEIRA, BRAZIL -- Semaj Williams, a stress-management consultant from New Jersey, feels Brazil in his past, and his present.
"It's very clear to me that in another life I was Brazilian," said the hulking Williams, seated on the shaded patio of a colonial convent-turned-upscale-hotel. "I'm sure of that: Brazil is one of my places."
He is one of thousands of U.S. visitors, virtually all of them African American, who have journeyed to the cobblestoned lanes of this northeastern Brazilian town in pursuit of roots and a shared history.
Music is too subversive for the new South Africa, says apartheid hero
The Times
August 7, 2007
By Eve Conant
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Aug 1, 2007
A new study finds that blacks who kill whites are more likely to face execution.
What kind of Black Are We
Washington Post
By Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
July 29, 2007
A few weeks ago, I saw part of the Pan Africanist dream come true.
It was during the closing ceremony at an African dance conference. To a man -- and they were all men -- the drummers and teachers came from Africa. To a woman -- and we were all women -- the dancers were African American. Among the spectators sat a Trinidadian; her Senegalese husband and his twin led the class. As we circled, I realized that Africa's children had been reunited.
Then the circle broke, and the class ended. As we drifted away, I wondered: "What kind of black are we now?"
