Many sincere activists and antiracists looking for a way to respond to Reaganite retrenchment were drawn to the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns as well as to other “insurgent” local campaigns, such as the one that elected Harold Washington as Chicago’s first..…

Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech to the March on Washington, will be milked for every symbolic reference it can. . If Obama succeeds in becoming the first African-American president, that will be a milestone. ..…

Washington's analysis of the tension between modernism and in the art of Charles White is astute, deeply racial, and rooted in African American aesthetic.  . Washington's reading of Maud Martha makes compelling case that Brooks's consciousness of race, class, and gender is sign..…

., the diplomats handling Congo had no heavyweights on their side Washington — particularly AU, and other African countries or to threaten new rounds of sanctions... ..…