The Obamas Made Sure Black Art Was Celebrated In The White House

Even before Barack Obama was officially sworn in as president in January 2009, he set the tone for his presidency with "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial." What the president seemed to be saying with the star-studded event was that Black arts and culture would take center stage during his administration.

Track of the Day: ‘Killing an Arab’ by The Cure

I only noticed this particular Track of the Day theme today, and I immediately went back through the previous entries to make sure you hadn't run this one already. The Cure's reference to Camus's The Stranger is made pretty explicit in the refrain , but back in high school-when I both heard the song and read the book for the first time within a month of each other-I thought the song was a pretty good distillation of the novel's central themes.