Janet Langhart Cohen Interview
"Race Matters"
given to Huffington Post on January 12, 2009
In just a few days, Barack Hussein Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Few presidents in history will have entered the Oval Office with higher expectations or a more daunting set of economic and national security challenges to confront.
Barack Obama's electoral success was said to rest, in part, on the fact that he, a first generation African-American, did not seek to exploit or campaign on the subject of America's racial history. In other words, Obama "transcended "race by ignoring the subject, and discussed it only when forced to do so by others. Ironically, he was left to lift the burden of race and racism imposed by white society upon the backs of blacks for more than three hundred years. Nonetheless, many in our country take pride that America has seemingly placed our racial history behind us, with the so-called "baggage of the civil rights movement" finally packed away in the attic of history.
Read more of this extraordinary interview at
Huffington Post.
"Anne and Emmett"
A One Act Play
Written By Janet Langhart Cohen
“The play, an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till - both young victims of institutional racism - represents the first time anyone has drawn historical parallels between their lives.”
Playing in Missouri, and Washington DC
Find out more by visiting the Anne and Emmett Website
