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President Obama is feted in Chicago on Nov. 6, 2012, the night he is elected to his second term as commander in chief. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) If racial conflict, in the form of birthers ...
Dec 22, 2016 · Ian Allen. December 22, 2016. In “ My President Was Black ,” The Atlantic ’s Ta-Nehisi Coates examined Barack Obama’s tenure in office, and his legacy. The story was built, in part, around ...
Perhaps these were acts of self-defense by the president, perhaps not. Whatever the reasons, the president’s racial reticence highlighted a submerged civil war in black America about how ...
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Nov 16, 2020 · Transcript. NPR's Michel Martin talks with former President Barack Obama about his new memoir, A Promised Land. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Our colleague Michel Martin talked in person with President Obama ...
Jun 15, 2012 · AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster. (CBS News) A new biography excerpted Friday in the Washington Post sheds light on some of President Obama's formative experiences coming to terms with his racial identity ...
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Dec 21, 2016 · PBS NewsHour. The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates has criticized President Obama’s policies toward black Americans. Perhaps for that reason, he was invited to discuss such issues with Mr. Obama ...
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Scroll to Begin. As Barack Obama approached the lectern on March 18, 2008, his campaign for president was in jeopardy. Days earlier, racially-charged comments made by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah ...