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Best African American Essays 2010 The Best African American Essays 2010 The Presidential Election of 2008 “A More Perfect Union” By Barack Obama Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961, in Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham. Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama was the Democratic nominee in the 2008 Presidential election with running mate, Joe Biden and is currently the 44th President of the United States and first African American to do so. “A Deeper Black” By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Nation http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/ Ta-Nehisi Coates, who was born in Baltimore, MD in 1975 and attended Howard University, is a contributing editor for The Atlantic and blogs on its website. Coates has worked for The Village Voice; Washington City Paper; and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine; The Washington Post; The Washington Monthly; O; and other publications. In 2008 he published a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. “Obama No” By Adolph Reed Jr., The Progressive Adolph Reed, Jr. is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. Reed also taught at Yale, Northwestern and the New School for Social Research. An expert on racial and economic inequality, he is a founder of the Labor Party and a frequent contributor to The Progressive and The Nation. “Who Died and Made Tavis King?” By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Root http://www.melissaharrislacewell.com/ Melissa Harris-Lacewell is Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, (Princeton 2004). And she is currently at work on a new book: Sister Citizen: A Text For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough (Forthcoming Yale University Press). Her work is published in scholarly journals and edited volumes and her interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology. Professor Harris- Lacewell appears regularly on MSNBC. She regularly provides expert commentary on U.S. elections, racial issues, religious questions and gender concerns for both The Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Professor Harris-Lacewell is also a regular guest on other television and radio. Her writings have appeared in newspapers throughout the country and she is a regular contributor at TheNation.com. Professor Harris-Lacewell received her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University , her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School. She is currently a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York. “What Obama Means to the World” By Gary Younge, The Nation Gary Younge, the Alfred Knobler Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the New York correspondent for the Guardian and the author of No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South (Mississippi) and Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States (New Press). Younge is a British journalist and author, born to immigrant parents from Barbados. Younge read French and Russian at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He went on to study at City University, London where he gained a Post-graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism in 1993. HE has a monthly column for The Nation called "Beneath the Radar." He also contributes to The Notion. Younge is also currently a Belle Zeller visiting scholar at Brooklyn College, where he teaches classes on media and politics. “Finally, a Thin President” By Colson Whitehead, The New York Times http://www.colsonwhitehead.com/Home/Home.html Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books, and music. His first novel, The Intuitionist, was a winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. John Henry Days followed in 2001, an investigation of the steel- driving man of American folklore. The novel received the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The Colossus of New York is a book of essays about the city. It was published in 2003 and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Apex Hides the Hurt (2006) is a novel about a "nomenclature consultant" who gets an assignment to name a town, and was a recipient of the PEN/Oakland Award. Sag Harbor, published in 2009, is a novel about teenagers hanging out in Sag Harbor, Long Island during the summer of 1985. Colson Whitehead's reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as the New York Times; The New Yorker; New York Magazine; Harper's; and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. “Judge Obama on Performance Alone” By Juan Williams, The Wall Street Journal Juan Williams is a news analyst, appearing regularly in the newsmagazines Morning Edition and Day to Day. From 2000-2001, Williams hosted NPR's national call-in show Talk of the Nation and is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, released February 2000. He is also the author of the nonfiction bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, the companion volume to the critically acclaimed television series. This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience appeared in February 2003 and was the basis for a six-part public broadcasting TV documentary that aired in June 2003. In 2004, Williams became involved with AARP's Voices of Civil Rights project, leading a veteran team of reporters and editors in the production of My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience. In 2006, Williams came out with another book entitled Enough. He has won an Emmy award for TV documentary writing and won widespread critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including "Politics - The New Black Power." Articles by Williams have appeared in magazines ranging from Newsweek, Fortune, and The Atlantic Monthly to Ebony, Gentlemen's Quarterly, and The New Republic. Williams continues to be a contributing political analyst for the Fox News Channel and a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday. A graduate of Haverford College, Williams received a B.A. in philosophy in 1976. Currently, he sits on a number of boards, including the Haverford College Board of Trustees, the Aspen Institute of Communications and Society Program, Washington Journalism Center and the New York Civil Rights Coalition. “Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future” By David A. Hollinger, Callaloo David A. Hollinger was born April 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois and is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written several books of which his source book, The American Intellectual Tradition, is amongst the most widely used textbooks in college undergraduate courses focusing on American intellectual history since the Civil War. He is also a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, attaining his Ph.D. in 1970. Hollinger is currently president-elect of the Organization of American Historians. He is also on the editorial board of several journals including Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern Intellectual History and The Journal of the History of Ideas. Our Michelle “What Michelle Can Teach Us” By Allison Samuels, Newsweek Allison Samuels has been a national correspondent since June of 1999 and correspondent with Newsweek's Los Angeles bureau since 1996. Samuels joined Newsweek in 1994 as a researcher, and was promoted to reporter in January of 1996. Before joining the magazine, the Georgia native worked for producer Quincy Jones and at the Hollywood super agency CAA. She also was a reporter for The Los Angeles Times. This year Samuels released the book Off The Record, (HarperCollins) detailing her interviews with Denzel Washington, Kobe Bryant, Halle Berry, Michael Jordan and Bill Cosby. Her first book Christmas Soul (Jump At the Sun/Disney) was released in 2003. Samuels was awarded a first place Deadline Club Award in 2004 for Newsweek's cover article on Kobe Bryant. It also earned the first place features prize from the National Association of Black Journalists the same year. Samuels was also honored with a first place Clarion Award for her profile of actor Denzel Washington in 2003. Samuels has also won numerous New York Association of Black Journalists Awards. Recently, Samuels was asked by talk show host Oprah Winfrey to travel to South Africa with her to report on her process of choosing girls for her leadership academy. Samuels graduated from Clark Atlanta University in 1988 with a B.A. in Mass communications. She is a member of the Association of Black Journalists, the Big Sisters of America and a past member of the UCLA Black Studies Department Board of Directors. She is currently a contributing editor at Essence Magazine and an entertainment correspondent for National Public Radio's "News and Notes'' show and resides in Los Angeles. “Movin‟ On Up” By Margo Jefferson, New York Margo L. Jefferson was appointed critic-at-large, covering theater, at the New York Times in 1996, after having served as Sunday theater critic since January 1995.
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