Barack Obama

Born black in the Southern USA and raised mainly in a small and backward, rigidly segregated Arkansas town in which white people systematically victimised blacks (the segregation was so complete that most Black children...

This was only one among a steadily growing accumulation of honours. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, with an eighty-fourth birthday party organized for her by the office of President Obama

MA strongly supported Hillary Clinton as prospective Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, but after Clinton left the race she supported the successful candidate, Barack Obama , with equal force as he competed for and won...

The knowledge that enslaved Africans had gathered latex for rubber, and had been mutilated if they failed to fulfil their work quota, and that land had been expropriated by tyre companies for their plantations, made...

At the election of President Obama she not only, for the first time, felt truly American, but felt also (for that little moment, for a couple of hours) very powerfully patriotic.

AW 's blog, at http://alicewalkersgarden.com/blog/, mixes poems (with titles like Despair is the Ground Bounced Back From) with politics (as in the brief essay To the Freedom Riders of Palestine). Indeed, the two...

She devotes a good deal of space here to President Barack Obama , whom she had strongly supported during his first campaign for the presidency, but whom she now harshly criticized for his policies on...

Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...