• Who You Callin’ Uncle Tom?

    Just because I disagree with the conventional black political thinking does not make me a sellout.
    Why I'm Not a Sellout Because Sometimes I Disagree With Obama
  • One of Your Friends Might Be a Blackface Barack Obama for Halloween. Should You Get Upset?

    I’m bracing myself for one or two blackface Baracks.  And I’m trying to decide now – because I do my best thinking when I’m not in a ridiculous costume – how I’ll react.
    The recent fashion controversy and the current political climate have set the stage for some Obama-in-blackface Halloween scandals.
  • "Brick City" Offers More Real Talk Than Pep Talks

    Brick City, the Sundance Channel documentary on Newark, New Jersey and its Mayor, Cory Booker, aired last week. What have we learned?
    New Documentary on Newark, New Jersey, and Mayor Cory Booker Offers Real Talk on Cities
  • On Health Care, Rep. Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Neanderthals." Really?

    I don’t agree with Rep. Grayson’s remarks any more than I agree with the actions of Rep. Joe Wilson, who could not restrain himself from yelling “You lie!” at the President of the United States of America. But they show that members of Congress are not the mature adults we all deserve working on our behalf in Washington, D.C.
    Sophia Nelson: Rep. Alan Grayson is Wrong. We're All "Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals."
  • Bill Clinton Up Close: Former Prez Dishes on Obama, Afghanistan and Climate Change

    The private conversation with Clinton began and ended on the future of energy--also the subject of President Barack Obama’s address to today’s United Nations summit on climate change. Clinton, hoping to lead the conversation on the global green future, stressed over and over that the politics of environmental action is not a matter of tree-hugging but of dollars and cents.
    Bill Clinton Gives Private Interview on Climate Change at Clinton Global Initiative 2009
  • 'It’s Not on Obama. It’s Really Still on Us.'

    Part II of The Root’s exclusive interview with Bill Cosby.
    Bill Cosby on the 25th Anniversary of 'The Cosby Show'
  • Obama to Meet with Colin Powell—Next at the Pentagon?

    What’s interesting about the official meeting is not just that Powell, an eloquent advocate for candidate Obama in the last days of campaign 2008, is taking his first meeting with the President since he was inaugurated.
    Obama to Meet with Colin Powell—Next Secretary of Defense?
  • Can White Liberals Keep Their Eye on the Prize?

    It seems hypocritical to attack the White House for being spineless on Van Jones without attacking the NRDC, Sierra Club, EDF and Greenpeace for being spineless as well. If white progressives either can't or won't oppose racism, then we'll need a new set of white progressive funders and leaders to do something better.
    Van Jones's Resignation Highlights Racial Tensions on the Left
  • Obama to Congress: "Just Give Me the Ball"

    The White House has announced that president Barack Obama will address a special joint session of Congress next Wednesday evening on the issue of health insurance reform. By doing so, Obama is sticking to the line he whipped out after his first debates with Sen. John McCain in 2008: "Just gimme the ball."
    Obama Tackles Health Reform Before Joint Session of Congress Next Week
  • Meet Brazil's Black Female (Green) Presidential Candidate

    A black woman is running for president of the southern hemisphere's most populous country. As the international debate on climate change heats up, Marina Silva's advocacy for the environment and against the deforestation of Brazil's immense natural rainforests stands out as much as her unusual rise to power.
    Marina Silva, Brazil's Black Female (Green) Presidential Candidate
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