May 19, 2013

The Nation: Conservatives Can’t Handle Obama’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

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*(Via The Nation) – To his credit, Barack Obama puts a modestly enlightened spin on his Thanksgiving proclamations.  This year’s proclamation recalls that “the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony…enjoyed the fruits of their labor with the Wampanoag tribe—a people who had shared vital knowledge of the land in the difficult months before” and notes “the contributions [...]




Melissa Harris-Perry: The ‘Sister Citizen’ Interview with Kam Williams

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*Born in Seattle, Washington on October 2, 1973, but raised in Charlottesville and Chester, Virginia, Melissa V. Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University where she is the founding director of the project on gender, race, and politics in the South. Her previous book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, won the 2005 [...]