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Justspeak: Presidential slam dunk—Obama wins electoral landslide re-election

Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis

For the second time in this 21st century Barack Hussein Obama, the first Black President of the United States of America, has made history. He won his re-election by an electoral landslide. He beat the odds that predicted he would win the electoral vote but not the popular vote, and thereby further polarizing America.
Well, they were wrong. This incumbent president has won reelection with 50% of the people claiming President Barrack Hussein Obama as the person to lead them over the next four y...
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Justspeak: “Who Let the Dogs Out?” Romney and the Republican Party

Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, Gunnar Myrdal, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. What do they all have in common, besides being deceased and white men? Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in Americapublished in two volumes (1835 and 1840) in which he made observations about the impact of slavery on the newly-formed American society; Gunnar Myrdal ( a Swedish economist) wrote An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) on U.S. race relations; and Governor Otto Ker...
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President Obama: He got game!

Posted by Irma McClaurin on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis

Well if Stella could get her groove back, why not the President? We saw him in his "A" game mode during the second presidential debate. It was like Ali coming back at Frazier the third and final time around—"the thrilla in Manilla." What we saw was intellect unleashed—the thrilla in Hempstead, N.Y. Not quite as exotic, but it served its purpose. President Barack Hussain Obama, the incumbent, was on point—like Michael Jordan doing a slam dunk.

And what about Romney? He's still trying to s...
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Obama rewind needed

Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis

President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney

I’m not sure who is coaching President Obama, but I hope they just got fired. As someone who has worked in media, given hundreds of speeches, taught university courses, and given many poetry readings, one thing I’ve learned is that people like a performance! And that’s what was missing from President Obama’s presentation in the first debate.

I think the Obama media people are young and old white men who have experience doing political campaig...
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The Perils of Leadership...

Posted by on Friday, February 3, 2012, In : Public Engagement

For the last few months, we have been inundated by scandals at universities that range
from allegations of child abuse and molestation to deadly hazing rituals. In each case,
the president of the institution has come under tremendous criticism and fire for failing
to act, even when it’s not clear that they were aware of the incidents. In two instances,
the president has been terminated (Penn State) or asked to resign or “step aside” (FAMU).
And while it is true that the buck litera...
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Shaw University Names New Leader...

Posted by on Friday, September 10, 2010, In : Public Engagement

Shaw University introduces Irma McClaurin as the new president.

She will be the first female president at the historically black college in Raleigh.

Before accepting the position at Shaw, McClaurin was associate vice president for system academic administration at the University of Minnesota, and executive director of the Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center in Minneapolis.

McClaurin was introduced during a grand ceremony on Shaw's campus that included singers, dancers and even a ...