Economics
In Twilight of Term, Obama Finds More Urgent Voice on Race
Polls show racial polarization in the U.S. is at the highest in decades.
US President Barack Obama participates in a roundtable discussion with young people at an event at Lehman College launching the My Brothers Keeper Alliance, a new non-profit organization, in New York on May 4, 2015.
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With his time in office waning, President Barack Obama is speaking out on race and poverty in increasingly blunt terms as violent protests in U.S. cities highlight the unrealized promise of his election.
Searing images of a burning CVS pharmacy in Baltimore and armored vehicles arrayed along the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, are a grim contrast to the elated, multi-racial crowd celebrating in Chicago’s Grant Park on the warm November night in 2008 after the nation elected its first black president.