. W 16 April 30 & May 2
Black Politics in the Obama Era
T- Taylor, Chapters 4&5
Obama Speech: Transcript- A More Perfect Union (video approx. 40 minutes)
Obama and the Limits of Black Formal Politics copy
James Forma Jr. on “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America”
R-Taylor, Chapters 6 & 7:
Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlacksLivesMatter Movement”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “My President Was Black”
and Frederick Harris, “The Price of a Black President” NYT