The Obama legacy on race . . . "Has Obama’s presidency improved race relations, as we hoped and expected it would? Or have things actually gotten worse?" . . .
How the Obama-Sharpton Alliance Began . . . The backdrop to the incipient Obama-Sharpton alliance was the then-senator’s 2008 presidential campaign, which still hadn’t locked away the black vote, and the political cross-currents created by two other controversial reverends, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright. That tentative relationship has now grown into a full-blown partnership that has vastly increased the once-shunned Sharpton’s influence and prestige and elevated him into a key White House ally at a time of heightened tension over policing and race." . . .
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