Topic: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Obama Cambridge Police

In response to the disorderly conduct arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates , President Barack Obama commented that the Cambridge Police Department " " —Barack Obama ; Press Conference on July 22, 2009

Beer Summit

The "beer summit" is set for the evening of Thursday, July 30, 2009. It was first reported that the meeting would be at a picnic table near the White House 's Oval Office , Fox News later reported that was not the ...

Three Tales of Racism

I just gotthrough watching a documentary about a little town called Charleston,Mississippi. The heart of thestory was that in 2007-2008 students at the local highs school were stillMorgan Freeman is from Charleston and he held a meeting at the school and toldthe ...
Essay: Race again proves a distraction for Obama, shifting his focus from crowded to-do listRight when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a storm of distraction.Obama and his administration ...

Gates, Crowley and Obama: Take Two

Call me cynical, but the reunion of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley at the White House Thursday didn't give me the warm fuzzies. President Obama landed himself in a quagmire last week when he remarked that ...

Obama more bartender than mediator at beer summit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama played bartender-in-chief on Thursday at a " beer summit" of the main players in a racially charged case that he hoped would be a "positive lesson" in a national dialogue on race.Obama, the first black U.S. ...
President Barack Obama sat down for beers and snacks with a white police officer and an eminent black scholar at the White House Thursday in a bid to quell a national furor over racial profiling.Obama welcomed distinguished Harvard University professor Henry Louis ...
President Barack Obama will have a beer with a white police officer and an eminent black scholar at the White House on Thursday, in a bid to quell a heated national furor over racial profiling.Obama planned to welcome distinguished Harvard University professor ...

WORLD: Cold beers soothe Obama race row

The beer, for the record, was Bud Light for Barack Obama; Buckler, a non-alcoholic beer for Joe Biden; Sam Adams for Professor Henry Louis Gates of Harvard University; and Blue Moon, a Belgian-style wheat beer served with a slice of orange, for ...
President Barack Obama will have a beer with a white police officer and an eminent black scholar at the White House on Thursday in a bid to quell a heated national furor over racial profiling.Obama was to welcome distinguished Harvard University professor ...
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