New gun control measures could lead to more over-policing and imprisonment of African Americans.

Straight Up: Perhaps it's time some leaders got over a desire for a race-specific agenda.

He praised Lautenberg, then told us he's only done what other potential Senate aspirants have done.

The drama around the ex-policeman's manhunt highlighted the LAPD's history of discrimination.

Straight Up: But the Florida senator's weak State of the Union rebuttal wasn't entirely his fault.

The GOP entrusts its rebuttal to Obama's speech to a fresh face, but the same old ideas.

On the 45th anniversary of the Memphis Sanitation Strike, we spoke to Lee Saunders, AFSCME's first black leader.

The president should focus on sequestration, immigration and gun control -- and leave the rest alone.

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He praises her beauty constantly. Could it be a subtle message to the haters obsessed with her looks?