Melissa Harris Lacewell

Professor of Politics and African American Studies, Princeton University

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Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought; seminarian at Union Theological Seminary in New York

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Yesterday in Philadelphia, Barack Obama addressed the potent issues of race, religion and politics in a speech designed to allow his campaign get past the controversy created by…

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The African American Church: Intersection of Race, Religion, Politics

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Barack Obama 's mother was white and his father was African. In the United States, that makes him black.

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Barack Obama 's mother was white and his father was African. In the United States, that makes him black.

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