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by David Swerdlick onNovember 17, 2012
The Root's contributing editor David Swerdlick makes the case at the Hill that the president should consider which nominee would be the more politically expedient pick to replace Hillary Clinton.
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by David J. Leonard onNovember 17, 2012
Writing at Ebony, David J. Leonard analyzes what he says are reactions to the "alarming message about demographic shifts and waning white male control" sent by the presidential election.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 16, 2012
If confirmed, Judge William L. Thomas will be the second openly gay African-American judge on the federal bench.
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November 15, 2012
Mitt thinks the president won because he gave minorities, women and young people free stuff.
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by Michael Arceneaux onNovember 15, 2012
Writing at Ebony, Michael Arceneaux chronicles the way he's seen "bigots trying to take their country back," and explains why they don't make sense.
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by Michael H. Cottman onNovember 14, 2012
The election did nothing to slow the racial hatred directed at President Obama, Michael H. Cottman writes at BlackAmericaWeb.
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by Zerlina Maxwell onNovember 14, 2012
After his "blackface" quip, maybe he'll learn to make his critiques more constructive and less offensive.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 13, 2012
The latest from the campaign that just didn't get it.
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by Mychal Denzel Smith onNovember 10, 2012
A funny-yet-sad, election-inspired website highlights a racial rift. Whose country is it, anyway?
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by Eugene Robinson onNovember 10, 2012
The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson explains what he says was the message sent by the millions of voters who re-elected President Obama.
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