Politics

On Nov. 6, President Obama won four more years in the White House, but what nation are we, exactly? This is the question New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow parses as he runs down the states, like Mississippi and Texas, where locals have signed secession petitions following the last election.  The gap is growing…

(The Root) — President Obama’s landslide victory on Nov. 6 was won amid a culture war between the haves and have-nots. Republican candidate Mitt Romney openly admitted that he wasn’t “concerned about the very poor,” and he privately derided the “47 percent” of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes, claiming they should learn to…

Americans have given President Obama a second term, and now African-American leaders who encouraged voter turnout are looking for leverage. From job programs that combat high black unemployment to calling for fiscal-cliff action that doesn’t burden middle- to low-income Americans, activists like Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous are seeking solutions, reports the…

(The Root) — In December 1976, United Artists released Rocky, the story of an obscure, aging Philadelphia boxer, an underdog who challenged insurmountable odds to get his shot at facing a brutish, flamboyant champion. Sylvester Stallone never claimed that he intended any racial connotations in his now-beloved character, but it’s easy to see Rocky as…

(The Root) — The recent re-election of President Barack Obama has been met with a variety of reactions. Because of the large turnout of young people, women and people of color, the prevailing thought has been that America is officially moving beyond its racist past, embracing change and the need to recognize the value that…

Andre Showell writes at BET that the president has been more opinionated and forceful than ever in recent remarks. It’s perhaps one of the most overused words ever to enter the American English vernacular: swagger. And more times than not, the word is used inappropriately. But if you had the chance to see President Obama’s first post-election…

(The Root) — White women were so turned off by the GOP’s stance on rape and their corporeal rights that they voted to re-elect the first African-American president, according to a popular myth emerging about the recent elections. Smelling the roses of this fresh liberation, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd declared “white male patriarchy”…

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012 In the morning, the President will return to Washington, DC. The arrival on the South Lawn is open press. In the afternoon, the President will pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey in a ceremony in…

(The Root) — Unless you live under a rock or in a deep state of denial (cough, cough, Mitt Romney), the re-election of the nation’s first black president, Barack Hussein Obama, was due largely to voter turnout from voters of color (mainly African Americans and Latinos), young voters and women. As The Root’s Keli Goff…