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What Obama’s Trip to Havana Revealed about Race in Cuba and the U.S.

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Afrxlatinidad, Barack Obama, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba

During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism

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Should Barack Obama Endorse Bernie Sanders? The Left Turn and the Legacy

February 1, 2016February 1, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, black politics, Donald Trump, Ta-Nehisi Coates

President Obama would never endorse Bernie Sanders on the eve of the Democratic primary. But he definitely should.  And, in

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Barack Obama and People who Need People

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 Christopher Bonner Barack Obama, black politics, Politics

Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union Address. In the run up to the

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Barack Obama and the Legacy of Reconstruction

April 28, 2015April 28, 2015 Christopher Bonner

Is Barack Obama right that race relations are not worsening now? New Yorker contributor Dorothy Wickenden posed this question during

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History Matters Now More Than Ever

July 18, 2025July 2, 2025 Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr. #FromRightstoLives, black lives matter, Civil Rights Movement, teaching

This post is part of our online roundtable on Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.’s From Rights to Lives.

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