• May 6, 2011

    Join The Root's associate editor, Lauren Williams, as she chats with Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy and contributor David Swerdlick about all things bin Laden, the GOP's voter-ID laws and Michelle Obama's dance moves.

  • May 5, 2011

    President Barack Obama's political foes have long questioned his credentials as a "real American," without ever having to mention his color. His Kenyan and Muslim heritage provides new fodder for old bigots, who portray him as Osama bin Laden's buddy or doppelgänger. With bin Laden now dead at Obama's order, will the extremists' image of the president as a terrorist sympathizer be laid to rest?

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