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Across the Color Line: Interview with Author of new Du Bois Biography

Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed
The interviewer doesn't exaggerate in ranking W.E.B Du Bois as the 20th century's pre-eminent African-American author and thinker, crediting his founding and stewardship of the NAACP's The Crisis with granting him not just an agenda-setting role in civil-rights history but also international influence. Before going into detail with the biographer, he also praises Mullen for a work that is a timely introduction to this impressive and somewhat imposing figure.

Living, or Reliving, the African-American Experience

Bill Mosley Washington Socialist
This museum tells a story. African Americans overcame centuries of oppression to record achievements in all walks of life, including the election of one of their community as president. But To preserve the gains celebrated in the museum’s galleries, it will be necessary to continue to draw inspiration from the displays on the resistance to institutional racism.

Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106

Margalit Fox The New York Times
Mr. Wong died on Friday at 106. A Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, greeting-card illustrator and, in later years, maker of fantastical kites, he was one of the most celebrated Chinese-American artists of the 20th century. But because of the marginalization to which Asian-Americans were long subject, he passed much of his career unknown to the general public.

Obama's Dream and Its Contradictions

Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic
A look at Obama's core philosophy, his political appeal and accomplishments, his limitations and the constraints under which he governed.

The Carolina Coup and the Fight for Public Education

Jeff Bryant The Progressive
The lesson for Democrats from the Republican coup in North Carolina is that public education is a cornerstone of our democracy, and closely related to the fight for voting rights, racial justice, and a more equal society.

Walter Rodney and the Racial Underpinnings of Global Inequality

Tianna Paschel Items
While inequality has become a topic of increased popularity and politicization in recent years, most of the attention has focused on how 1% own an increasingly large share of the world’s wealth, rather than on inequalities between nations. In a global context in which national borders and citizenship pose few barriers to the mobility of capital, the reality is also a story of the world’s richest nations continuing to reap a disproportionate amount of the globe’s profits.

The Making of a Black President

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jackie Lay The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates explores President Barack Obama’s journey to the White House
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