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Underestimated on Foreign Policy, Obama Has Left Opponents ‘Sucking Wind’
Barack Obama’s foreign policy should not be reduced to a simple bumper sticker phrase. Not even one as pithy as the “Don’t do stupid s—t” mantra that is now being bandied about. Proof of this can be found in Susan Rice’s hands-down rejection of that term as the fulcrum of the Obama administration’s foreign policy…
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Afro-Cuban Issues Must Be Part of the Dialogue in Cuba
Editor’s note: This story was first published in March. We’re featuring it again in light Fidel Castro’s death. On his first day in Cuba, President Barack Obama walked to the center of the Plaza de Armas in the colonial section of Havana to view the imposing marble statue of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes—the George Washington…
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Obama in Cuba: A Step Into History
Editor’s note: This story was first published in March. We’re featuring it again in light Fidel Castro’s death. When Air Force One lands at Havana’s José Martí International Airport Sunday afternoon, President Barack Obama will quickly get a symbolic look at the daunting challenge he faces to make the changes he’s forged between the United…
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Who Will Speak for Black Cubans on the Lack of Economic Opportunity?
Havana: If President Barack Obama comes here sometime next year, as he has hinted he will, he’ll be under great pressure to meet with Cubans who are widely seen in anti-Castro circles within the United States as the legitimate voices of dissent inside this communist nation. In fact, Obama has already made such meetings a…
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Julian Bond Flirted With Presidential Run in 1976
Julian Bond is dead. His death is being widely reported today by media organizations. But here’s an important event in his life that those stories won’t tell you about the former communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Council and board chairman of the NAACP: Julian Bond’s death comes 39 years after he flirted with…
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Why African Americans Should Be 1st in Line to Cuba
Havana: On a small cut of land at the corner of 23rd Avenue and F Street in the Vedado section of this city stands a monument to two heroes of the Cuban people. But the faces carved into the imposing marble-and-granite structure are not those of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara, icons of the…
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NSA Spying, Cuba Policy Weaken US Image
(The Root)—Years from now, when pundits give way to historians—and the Tea Party has imploded—Barack Obama’s presidency will be judged not on the success of his national health care law, but instead on his ability to repair the damage done to this nation’s image on his watch. Since the beginning of the 20th century when the…
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Newt the Historian Should See 'Red Tails'
DeWayne Wickham is a syndicated columnist, as well as a founding member and former president of the National Association of Black Journalists. He is also dean of the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University.
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Ron Paul Exposes GOP Tolerance for Unequal Justice
In an entry at his Disturbing the Peace blog, DeWayne Wickham says that Ron Paul’s rant against racial injustice during the recent GOP debate spoke volumes. The lack of response to the problem shows that the GOP’s strategy for winning back the White House is devoid of any serious appeal to black voters. Ron Paul…
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GOP Struggles to Find Obama's Soft Spot on Terrorism
In his USA Today column, DeWayne Wickham highlights the Republican Party’s efforts to downplay President Barack Obama’s success in the war on terror. Almost all attempts have backfired because most Americans are pleased with the president’s actions, he writes. The most revealing moment of the Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, S.C., came just after that…
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