What role does race play in the lives of young Americans? You tell us.

The Nobel Laureate dissects the message the president's trip to Ghana should send to the corrupt and failing states of Africa.

Barack Obama's first presidential trip to Sub-Saharan Africa will focus on the good guys—but we couldn't resist calling out the bad. Your guide to the Ghana trip, and the company Obama should be keeping abroad.

GALLERY: African Rogues and Royalty

To help President Obama improve America's image in the world, Americans must learn more about the world outside their nation's borders.

The Obama White House understands how badly America needs Russia's help in fixing the world's problems.

The president’s critics think he’s either meddling or missing in action. In fact, he’s doing it just right.

In an excerpt from the new book This is Your Country on Drugs, Ryan Grim explains how the press covered for the CIA in the Iran-Contra drug scandal that rocked the black community in the '90s. 

Before embarking on his North American tour earlier this week, the Afrobeat musician talked to The Root about his family’s musical and political legacy, and his thoughts on the radical future ahead for the Obama generation.

In Cairo, President Obama declared that Islam and America are compatible. He took aim at violent extremists. But he wasn’t as clear about bridging the gap between Israelis and Arabs.

President Obama's interests and Bill Clinton's new role are producing something rare in the hemisphere's poorest nation -- optimism.