For Sadou Brown in a Los Angeles suburb, the decisive victory of Senator Barack Obama in Iowa was a moment to show his 14-year-old son what is possible.
Daily Archives: January 5, 2008
‘We used to think there was a black community’ – Angela Davis
Angela Davis, one of the iconic faces of black politics in 1970s America, talks to the Guardian about Barack Obama, the black middle class, and how it feels to be remembered as a hairdo.
Obama in a New Era of Race Politics
Is color blindness the model we want for diversity? As news broke of Barack Obama’s victory in Iowa, one of the country’s whitest states, political pundits of all stripes quickly told us that we were witnessing a historic shift: the end of race and racism as campaign issues.