Obama’s first year: ‘High hopes and deferred dreams’ for black Americans
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 18th, 2010 5:42 am by HL
Obama’s first year: ‘High hopes and deferred dreams’ for black Americans
Adapted from A Day Late and A Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama’s ‘Post-racial’ America, published this month by John Wiley and Sons.
Obama invokes health-care ‘progress’ in speech honoring MLK
President Obama called on the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday in making what could be seen as a veiled plea for pragmatism on his health-care overhaul, saying that the civil rights leader never chose to forsake progress for a theoretical ideal that was out of reach at the time.
Fewer Americans think Obama has advanced race relations, poll shows
Soaring expectations about the effect of the first black president on U.S. race relations have collided with a more mundane reality, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
