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Hillary Clinton: Better for Black People Than Obama?
Editor’s note: In an article titled “Yes She Can,” a play on President Barack Obama’s inspiring 2008 campaign slogan, Michael Eric Dyson writes for the New Republic of his conversion to the belief that Hillary Clinton will do more for black people than the president himself. Calling himself a skeptic after a series of questionable…
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Déjà Vu All Over Again in Britain
The peaceful protest against the police killing of a black citizen that led to violence and looting in the United Kingdom seems like déjà vu all over again. Trouble has been brewing for decades between the police and black communities in North London. It is the scene of the most recent riots in Tottenham, and…
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Manning Marable: A Brother, a Mentor, a Great Mind
I discovered Manning Marable as a 21-year-old freshman at Knoxville College, a historically black college I’d left my native Detroit to attend after working in factories and fathering a son during the time most college-bound kids are in school. I was in the library stacks, browsing the sociology section, when I came upon a book…
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The Two Childhoods of Michael Jackson
When Michael Jackson gave up the ghost recently, we may have witnessed an eerie embodiment of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel and in the Oscar-nominated film version starring Brad Pitt, Benjamin Button ages in reverse: Born a shriveled old man, he dies a newborn baby. As an 11-year-old…
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King and Obama
On what would have been his 80th birthday, Martin Luther King Jr. must be smiling from whatever heavenly vista he was rewarded for giving his life for black justice and American freedom. Forty years after King was gunned down in Memphis, Barack Obama rode the promise of change into the White House. It’s as if…
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Sounds of Blackness
Barack Obama may defy many conventional notions of blackness, but his rhetoric is firmly rooted in black soil. While some listen for echoes of Lincoln in Obama’s inaugural speech, others will hear Malcolm and Martin. Read Michael Eric Dyson’s full article on washingtonpost.com.
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