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Barack Obama has taken the oath of office and been sworn in as America’s 44th president – and the country’s first African-American leader. More than one million people gathered in the National Mall in a wintry Washington DC, to see Mr Obama take the oath shortly after 1200 (1700 GMT). He used his inaugural address to vow to begin the work of “remaking America”.

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The world’s hottest election just got much hotter… Politics has never been this sexy… She was swift-boated by sex-tape! – Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when, a month before the 2008 US Presidential election, Kyle Franklin, a sexy, savvy, African American conservative falls for his Democrat counterpart, Aretha Gupta, a beautiful, idealistic local Obama volunteer coordinator. Sparks fly, tempers flares, heads turn, and romance blossoms for this mismatched pair of campaigners in the frantic and intoxicating days leading up to Election Day. Can the politics of love conquer all? Starring Loretta Devine (Crash, Dreamgirls), legendary Oscar nominee Ruby Dee, Brian White (Stomp the Yard, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad…), Gerry Bednob (40 Yr Old Virgin) and Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat (Hisss, Murder).

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Despite claims to the contrary, Barack Obama’s presidency does not herald a post-racial America or a new black politics, according to United States Studies Centre visitor, African-American cultural expert, Professor Kevin Gaines. Professor Kevin Gaines is the Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and Professor of History at the University of Michigan and visited the United States Studies Centre to discuss the topic of Barack Obama and African American politics.

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford’s American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar’s literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. James Smethhurst, “Dunbar and African American Dualism;” Jennifer Terry, “”When Dey ‘Listed Colored Soldiers’: Dunbar’s Poetic Engagement with the Civil War and Violence;” Nicole Waligora-Davis, “Lynchings: Fictions of Law, Evidence, and Science in Dunbar’s Writings;” Kenneth Warren, “‘Some Men are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness, and Others Lived During the Reconstruction Period’: Dunbar and the Character of History.” Stanford University www.stanford.edu Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference www.stanford.edu Stanford Channel on YouTube www.youtube.com

Glenn Beck on the recent controversy involving blacks and the US Census. For more thoughts on this, follow the link to the blog: tinyurl.com