Sam Fulwood III
Senior Fellow
Sam Fulwood is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States.
Prior to joining the Center, Sam was a metro columnist at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, the last stop in a nearly three-decade journalism career that featured posts at several metropolitan newspapers. During the 1990s, he was a national correspondent in the Washington bureau of Los Angeles Times, where he created a national race-relations beat and contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
He has also worked as business editor and state political editor for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as assistant city editor, business reporter, editorial writer, and Johannesburg, South Africa bureau correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, and as a police, business, and sports reporter at The Charlotte Observer.
Fulwood is the author of two books, Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class (Anchor, 1996) and Full of It: Strong Words and Fresh Thinking for Cleveland (Gray & Company, 2004).
In addition to his news and commentary writings in mass-circulated publications and anthologies, Sam frequently speaks on college campuses and television and radio programs to discuss national politics, race relations, and pop culture. He is a founding contributing writer for The Root.com, an online publication targeted to the African-American online community.
He was a 1994 Nieman Foundation fellow and is currently a member of the foundation's board of advisors. During the spring of 2000, he was an Institute of Politics fellow at Harvard University. Sam was an inaugural presidential fellow at Case Western Reserve University in 2003, where he taught courses on media, politics, and pop culture.
Sam earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978.
Articles by Sam Fulwood III
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Race and Beyond: How Gov. Brewer Actually Helped President Obama,
January 31, 2012
- Race and Beyond: Demographics Could Reshape Politics, January 24, 2012
- Race and Beyond: Facts Just Don’t Matter to Some People, January 10, 2012
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Race and Beyond: We Need Diversity in Education,
December 6, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Dumbing It Down on Fox News,
November 29, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Did We Really Expect the Super Committee to Succeed?,
November 22, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Bargaining and Basketball,
November 15, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Pat Buchanan: America Is Doomed,
November 8, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Undermining Democracy,
November 1, 2011
- Race and Beyond: Black Against Black in the Next Presidential Contest, October 18, 2011
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Toward 2050 in Virginia,
October 18, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Parsing the Polls,
October 4, 2011
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Race and Beyond: The Value of National Service,
September 27, 2011
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Race and Beyond: New Study: Americans Ho-Hum About Changing Demographics,
August 30, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Rededicating Ourselves to Dr. King’s “Dream”,
August 23, 2011
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Race and Beyond: The Race for the White House ,
August 16, 2011
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Race and Beyond: The Catch 22 of Racial Disparities,
August 9, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover,
August 2, 2011
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Sonando la alarma equivocada,
July 20, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Sounding the Wrong Alarm,
July 19, 2011
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Race and Beyond: A Tale of Two Young Black Men,
July 12, 2011
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Race and Beyond: ‘Gangsta’ Ad Misfires on Racist Right,
June 21, 2011
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Race and Beyond: The White Working Class and America’s Shifting Racial Landscape,
June 14, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Georgia Chopsticks, LLC,
June 7, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Playing the Dozens,
May 24, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Antiracism Increasingly a Black and White Affair,
May 17, 2011
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Less than Citizens,
May 11, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Osama’s Death Unites Americans that Came of Age After 9/11,
May 3, 2011
- Race and Beyond: Trump Counts on the Crazies, April 26, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Little-Known History Makes a Big Difference,
April 19, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Did We Back the Wrong Horse?,
April 12, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Real Diversity Requires Diverse Thinking,
April 5, 2011
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Race and Beyond: The People v. Wal-Mart,
March 29, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Liberate National Public Radio!,
March 22, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Every (Black Man) an Obama?,
March 15, 2011
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El Futuro de Nuestra Nación ,
March 9, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Majority Minority Toddlers ,
March 8, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Black Power—The True Meaning of the Term, Then and Now,
March 1, 2011
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Race and Beyond: The Silent Decline,
February 22, 2011
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Race and Beyond: States' Rights Redux,
February 15, 2011
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Del Sueño a la Pesadilla para un Estudiante Estelar,
February 1, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Why Do Some Americans Love Guns So Much?,
February 1, 2011
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Race and Beyond: DREAM to Nightmare for Stellar Student,
January 25, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Violence Doesn’t Work,
January 11, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Gearing Up for the Health Care Showdown,
January 4, 2011
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Race and Beyond: Can’t We Care for Those Who Need Help the Most?,
December 7, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Scanning for Terrorists Fairly and Effectively,
November 23, 2010
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Race and Beyond: All in the Family,
November 16, 2010
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Race and Beyond: The Leaders of the African-American Tea Party,
November 9, 2010
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Race and Beyond: The Civil War Today,
November 2, 2010
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Race and Beyond: The Essence of Marriage,
October 26, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Blacks Could Preserve a Progressive Majority,
October 19, 2010
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Race and Beyond: When Jokes Trump Discourse,
October 5, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Challenging the Social and Government Institutions We Need,
September 28, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Majority-Minority Conflicts,
September 21, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Whistling Dixie,
September 14, 2010
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Race and Beyond: God Made Me Do It,
August 31, 2010
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Race and Beyond: The Cost of Lying about the President’s Religion,
August 24, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Shelter Needed Amid the Housing Storm,
August 17, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Effort to Repeal 14th Amendment Canny like a Fox,
August 10, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Editorializing While Black,
August 3, 2010
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Race and Beyond: Obama Should Speak Up,
July 27, 2010
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Oldsters Mix It Up over Race,
July 21, 2010
- When It’s Racist, Say So, June 1, 2010
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Don’t Take the Bait,
April 13, 2010
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La Falsa Premisa del Enfrentamiento entre Afro-Americanos e Inmigrantes,
March 19, 2010
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Blacks vs. Immigrants Is a Zero-Sum Argument,
March 19, 2010
- ¿Un Sueño Pospuesto?, January 17, 2010
- A Dream Deferred?, January 15, 2010
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Reid Was Right,
January 11, 2010
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No Background Check? No Problem,
November 2, 2009
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Expert in the Field: Greensboro, North Carolina,
September 22, 2009
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Loving Thy Neighbor,
September 22, 2009
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More Money, More Problems,
September 15, 2009
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Atta Boy, Barney,
August 19, 2009
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The Real “Teachable Moment”,
July 28, 2009
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Behind the "Birther Movement",
July 27, 2009
