HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.’S ARREST AND RACE IN AMERICA:
“We hit it off right from the beginning. When he’s not arresting you, Sgt Crowley is a really likable guy” — PROF. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
(President Barack Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley walk from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden [...]
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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:
(President Barack Obama delivers remarks on “Race To the Top” at the Department of Education with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, left, in Washington, D.C. Friday, July 24, 2009. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
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New Obama poll: Honeymoon over?: According to a new CNN Poll of Polls, 54 percent of [...]
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Obama Tries to Move Past Gates Furor: The White House expressed hope that it has put behind it a controversy surrounding President Barack Obama’s remarks on the arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. But the incident highlights the challenge facing Mr. Obama [...]
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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
President Obama held a prime-time news conference on health care reform More Photos >
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FACT CHECK: Obama’s health care claims adrift? President Barack Obama’s assertion Wednesday that government will stay out of health care decisions in an overhauled system is hard to square with the proposals [...]
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Posted in HNN, Obama Presidency, Poiltical Highlights, tagged Apollo 11, Barack Obama, Ghana, health-care reform, NAACP, Sonia Sotomayor, Willie Mays on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:
(President Barack Obama makes remarks at the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP in New York, Thursday, July 16, 2009. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
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Is Obama losing his Midas touch among Dems?: Could it be that President Barack Obama’s [...]
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(Bill Carter/Demotix Images) Police led Henry Louis Gates Jr. away in handcuffs after his arrest on Thursday at his home in Cambridge.
Case Recalls Tightrope Blacks Walk With Police: ….Like countless other blacks around the country, Mr. Medley was revisiting his encounters with the police as a national discussion about race and law enforcement [...]
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Walter Cronkite, longtime CBS anchorman, dies at 92 LAT, 7-17-09
Walter Cronkite, Voice of TV News, Dies – NYT, 7-18-09
An Appraisal ‘Cronkite’ Meant the News NYT, 7-18-09
28 Years After Retirement, Anchorman Goes Off the Air – NYT, 7-19-09
Walter Cronkite ‘told the [...]
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Civil War historian Kenneth Stampp dies at 96
Here’s the History Doyen profile, I edited and was first published on the History News Network, November 27, 2006.
Kenneth M. Stampp
What They’re Famous For
Kenneth Milton Stampp is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught [...]
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Obama’s Secret Meeting With Historians: The president held a dinner at the White House for leading presidential scholars
Obama held a dinner at the White House residence with nine such scholars on June 30, and it turned out to be what one participant described as a [...]
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Posted in HNN, Obama Presidency, Poiltical Highlights, tagged Barack Obama, Bush, G-8 Summit, George W, Independence Day, Moscow, Russia, Sarah Palin on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:
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Voters’ Remorse — Is Baracklash on the Horizon? Since January Obama has failed to help many of his core supporters. Will they soon turn against him?: Call it Baracklash: so far, Barack Obama isn’t helping many people who voted for him in high percentages when he was elected president [...]
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