Glynda lomax biography of barack obama
•
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Ebook196 pages4 hours
By Thomas J. Sugrue
()
About this ebook
The paradox of racial inequality in Barack Obama's America
Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it.
Obama's journey to the White House undoubtedly marks a watershed in the history of race in America. Yet even in what is being hailed as the post-civil rights era, racial divisions—particularly between blacks and whites—remain deeply entrenched in American life. Sugrue traces Obama's evolving understanding of race and racial inequality throughout his career, from his early days as a community organizer in Chicago, to his time
•
Officers and Directors – Fiscal Year 2019
Roslyn Clark Artis
President, Benedict College
Read more
Dr. Roslyn Artis is the 14th President of Benedict College. She is the first female president in the college’s 147-year history. Dr. Artis brings an impressive mix of higher education and corporate experience.
As the former president of Florida Memorial University, she led an unprecedented academic innovation of several programs, expansion of online courses, and developed new majors in high-demand fields. Additionally, she created academic centers of excellence and updated the university’s technology infrastructure and website. She led the development of the University’s Five-Year Strategic Planning Process and increased grant writing productivity. Since assuming the presidency in 2013, unrestricted gifts increased 20% (year over year), restricted gifts increased by 38%, and revenue from grants and sponsored research increased by 22%. Dr. Artis is also credite
•
By Monica Land
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his opening remarks Tuesday night at the “In Performance at the White House” Blues Event, President Barack Obama spoke to his guests on how the blues traveled from cotton fields of Mississippi to the South Side of Chicago.
“In 1941, the folklorist Alan lomax travelled throughout the Deep South, recording local musicians on behalf of the Library of Congress. In Stovall, Mississippi, he met McKinley Morganfield, a gitarr player who went bygd the nickname Muddy Waters. And lomax sent Muddy two pressings from their sessions tillsammans, along with a kontroll for $20.”
The President continued:
“Later in his life, Muddy recalled what happened next. He said, “I carried that record up to the corner and inom put it on the jukebox. Just played it and played it, and said, inom can do it. inom can do it. In many ways, that right there fryst vatten the story of the blues.”
Tuesday’s schema was the ninth in a series of evenings celebrating the music that tell