(The Root) — Remember when North Carolina voted for a Democratic presidential nominee (Barack Obama) for the first time in three decades in 2008? And elected its first female governor that same year? Or that black voters in the state outperformed whites (pdf) in the last two presidential elections? Republicans remember. Now that they completely…

(The Root) — Now that the government has confirmed that African Americans in 2012 voted at a higher rate than whites for the first time — and were the only group to boost its turnout — groups such as the NAACP are claiming credit. But Barack Obama has left the campaign trail. Without his name…

(The Root) — Within a decade, thousands of aerial drones could be hovering over neighborhoods across America, surveying traffic or crops, monitoring large crowds, searching for missing children and fugitives and perhaps more. Could the “eye in the sky” deliver major advancements for public safety and a wide variety of industries, or lead to violations…