By Pamela Scully
On July 6, 2010, nearly a year after the first public questions were raised about her gender, the IAAF stated that it had determined that Semenya, is female, and can now compete in local and international competitions.

In this edition of The Drinking Gourd, I’ve invited my mentor, Dr. David Levering-Lewis, Professor of History at New York University and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, to share his thoughts on the meaning of the Obama presidency. In late October, Lewis spoke at Northwestern University’s Center for Historical Studies. His speech, “On [...]