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THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULEFOR TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 In the morning, the President will attend a bilateral meeting with President Calderón of Mexico. There will be a pool spray at the bottom of the meeting. Later in the morning, the President will attend a bilateral…

(The Root) — We all make mistakes. Some are bigger than others. And if we survive them, most of us try to learn from our mistakes, make amends and move on. Rodney King made the biggest mistake of his life — drinking and driving — on the night of March 3, 1991, when four white…

(The Root) — Have you ever had one of those moments when, the second you finish answering a question, you realize, “Oh, crap, I’m going to pay for that one”? I have. The tough part, particularly in a hypercharged political environment, is cleaning it up (or, as we like to say in Washington, “walking back…

(The Root) — On a Sunday that started out with blustery winds and slightly overcast conditions, several thousand New Yorkers gathered in upper Manhattan and marched down Fifth Avenue from 110th Street in a remarkably silent protest of the city’s stop-and-frisk police policy. Today’s march — led by a coalition of organizations and prominent public…

Matching DNA samples, scientists and historians have identified first lady Michelle Obama’s family history, which traces back to Northern Georgia. According to the New York Times, her ancestors were both slaves and the slave masters because of interracial couplings through the years. Now, Mrs. Obama’s distant white relatives, descendants of the slave masters, are grappling…

By David Maraniss He was too dark in Indonesia. A hapa child — half and half — in Hawaii. Multicultural in Los Angeles. An “Invisible Man” in New York. And finally, Barack Obama was black on the South Side of Chicago. This journey of racial self-discovery and reinvention is chronicled in David Maraniss’s biography, Barack…

Mitt Romney continued to claim that he’s the politician for the middle class during a speech in Pennsylvania on Saturday, during which he spoke of the value of marriage. If Americans marry before they have children, Romney told his crowd of political supporters, according to the Washington Post, the positive results will be immeasurable. “If…

(The Root) — Nearly a week ago, during a late-morning press conference at the White House, President Obama talked candidly about the economy, noting that in the last three years we’ve added about 4.3 million jobs — roughly one-fifth of them this year alone. Then he said, “The private sector is doing fine.” In case…

President Obama shakes hands with workers as he visits the One World Trade Center site in New York City on June 14, 2012. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.