Race at 100 Days


Terrance Heath's picture

390 Years Minus 100 Days, Pt. 2

National Urban League head Mark Morial recently described the state of black America today as "the best of times and the worst of times," and he's right.

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Terrance Heath's picture

390 Years Minus 100 Days, Pt. 1

It's absurd to judge Obama's success at cleaning up messes that were decades in the making, based on his first 100 days in office. It's equally absurd to expect the first 100 days in the administration of an African-American president to change 390 years of racial history in this country. But it's an opportunity to asses were we really are, where we're headed and how far we've yet to go.

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

What The Right, And The Left, Doesn't Get About Race

A New York Times/CBS News poll this week suggests the nation's racial climate has been dramatically changed by the election of America's first biracial president, with an apparently record high 66 percent of Americans saying race relations are good. more »