Showing results for "African Englishes" in United States

One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, strong political forces were determined to limit that right. The Supreme Court, Alexander Hamilton wrote, would protect the weak against this very sort of tyranny. Still, as On Account of Race forcefully demonstrates, through the better part of American history the Court has instead been a protector of white rule. And complex threats against the right to vote persist even today.

At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States's borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded immigration regime meant for how blacks express national attachment?

Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition for Black women cannot be measured only by political candidacies and ascents of the political chain of power. Black women are uniquely positioned within their communities to influence politics and public policy, which stems from unique variables of socialization, gender and racial identity, and marginalization that shape the political attitudes of Black women. Thus, Dowe asserts that Black women's political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in activism and community building, a process that is linked to a wider radical vision.

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states, claiming the authority to maintain the domestic peace, enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling their boundaries and restricted the rights to testify in court, move freely from place to place, work, vote, and attend public school. But over time, African American activists and their white allies, often facing mob violence, courageously built a movement to fight these racist laws.

In her New York Times best seller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.

"African Union Issues Biting Report on Crisis in South Sudan" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jeffrey Gettleman and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"African Elephant Population Dropped 30 Percent in 7 Years" is from the September 01, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Niraj Chokshi and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"African Economies, and Hopes for New Era, Are Shaken by China" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Norimitsu Onishi and narrated by Keith-Sellon Wright .

"Revelations from Panama Papers Are Old News for Africans" is from the April 14, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alan Cowell and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"A Small African Nation Severs Ties with Taiwan, and Beijing Applauds" is from the December 23, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mike Ives and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Trustees Elect Carnegie's Hall's First African-American Chairman" is from the June 03, 2016, Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael Cooper and David Gelles and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Desperation Rising at Home, Africans Increasingly Turn to Risky Seas" is from the June 17, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dionne Searcey and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"U.S. To Ban Commercial Trade of African Elephant Ivory" is from the June 02, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jada F. Smith and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"South Africans Head to Polls amid Fierce Challenge to Party of Mandela" is from the August 02, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Norimitsu Onishi and narrated by Kristi Burns.

In this faraway corner of southern Africa, scores of German soldiers lie in a military cemetery, their names, dates and details engraved on separate polished tombstones.

Easily missed is a single small plaque on the cemetery wall that gives a nod in German to the African “warriors” who died in the fighting as well.

"Remains Discovered at an East Harlem Site Thought to Be an African Burial Ground" is from the Science section of The New York Times. It was written by David W. Dunlap and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Heat, Hunger and War Force Africans Onto a ‘Road on Fire’" is from the December 15, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Barclays, Reporting Loss, Plans to Cut Stake in African Business" is from the Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Chad Bray and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Inspired by the U.S., West Africans Wield Smartphones to Fight Police Abuse" is from the September 17, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dionne Searcey and Jaime Yaya Barry and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Panama Papers Reveal Wide Use of Shell Companies by African Officials" is from the July 25, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Scott Shane and narrated by Caroline Miller.