The Presidential Elections of 2008: A more perfect union / Barack Obama
A deeper black; from, The nation / Ta-Nehisis Coates
Obama no; from, The progressive / Adolph Reed, Jr.
Who died and made Tavis king?; from, The root / Melissa Harris-Lacewell
What Obama means to the world; from, The nation / Gary Younge
Finally, a thin president; from, The New York times / Colson Whitehead
Judge Obama on performance alone; from, The Wall Street journal / Juan Williams
Obama, the instability of color lines, and the promise of a postethnic future; from, Callaloo / David A. Hollinger.
Our Michelle: What Michelle can teach us; from, Newsweek / Allison Samuals
Movin' on up; from, New York / Margo Jefferson
The other Obama: Michelle Obama and the politics of candor; from, The New Yorker / Lauren Collins.
Reverend Wright revisited: Project Trinity: the perilous mission of Obama's church; from, The New Yorker / Kelefa Sanneh
Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem; from, Salon.com / Gary Kamiya.
The United States, past and present: America's greatest hits; from, Oxford American / Lolis Eric Elie
The end of the Black American narrative; from, The American scholar / Charles Johnson
The end of white America?; from, The Atlantic / Hua Hsa.
Personalities: Amy Winehouse and the (Black) art of appropriation; from, The nation / Daphne A. Brooks
This is how we lost to the white man; from, The Atlantic / Ta-Nehisis Coates
Before grief / Jerald Walker.
Profiles: The other black president; from, The American prospect / Adam Serwer
Family matters; from, The New Yorker / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The purrrfect diva: Eartha Kitt had a taste for the best things in life; from, The Washington post / Wil Haygood
Miriam Makeba: in troubled times, she was a voice of a country; from, The Washington post / Wil Haygood
Isaac Hayes: unshackled by history's chains; from, The Washington post / Wil Haygood
Pig candy / Lise Funderburg.
Race talk: Talking about not talking about race; from, New York / Patricia J. Williams
On Black history month / Eric Holder
On race, Blacks are cowards, too; from, Tampa Bay times / Bill Maxwell
What is the race card?; from, The race card / Richard Thompson Ford
Creature features: a two-part invention on racial profiling / Gerald Early
This machine kills fascists / Gerald Early.
Sports: Obama victory raises social significance of basketball; from, ESPN.com / Scoop Jackson
John Louis moment; from, The New York times / William C. Rhoden
Still crazy after all these years; from, Sports illustrated / L. Jon Wetheim
Ethical treatment for a quarterback; from, Sports illustrated / Phil Taylor.
Rita Dove: The fire this time; from, Callaloo / Rita Dove
On Rita Dove; from, Callaloo / Erika Meitner.
African American literature: Chester Himes: Exile & 125th Street; from, Noir originals / Michael A. Gonzales.
Racial identity, enslavement, and the law: Multiracialism and the social, construction of race: the story of Hudgins v. Wrights; from, Race law stories / Angela Onwuachi-Willig.
In memoriam: John Hope Franklin: The dilemma of the American Negro Scholar; from, Race and history: selected essays, 1938-1988 / John Hope Franklin.