Politics

It’s true: Black people are protective of President Barack Obama because he is the first African American to serve as the commander in chief of the United States. It’s not that hard to figure out why that would be the case. Still, I didn’t truly understand the depths of this loyalty until I recently moved…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — If you’ve seen the award-winning 2008 documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, then this will be a familiar story: How a group of Liberian women — Muslims and Christians, young and not so young, long grown weary from the terrors of war — conspired to wage peace in their country. How…

Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt rules that will affect the way average people receive data and other content over the Internet. The results of the vote — meant as a compromise between the interests of big business and the needs of “the little guy” — are likely to have a…

The triumphant e-mail arrived in my in-box a week or two ago. It announced a re-enactment of the Florida Secession Convention on Jan. 8, 2011, in the old State Capitol building, where the original event took place 150 years before. “This will be an early event of the Sesquicentennial of the War Between the States…

CBS News is reporting that President Obama signed historic legislation Wednesday morning repealing the 17-year-old “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that banned gay men and women from serving openly in the military. Obama hailed the bill as one that will “strengthen our national security and uphold the ideals that our fighting men and women risk…

When President Obama signs legislation Wednesday repealing “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” he will fulfill one of his key campaign promises to both the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community and the entire nation. Yet while high-profile gay and lesbian pundits such as Rachel Maddow and Andrew Sullivan are roundly declaring the repeal to be…

President Barack Obama will sign the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” on Wednesday. The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe asks what’s next now that the controversial law has been repealed. Although it is not clear how long it will take to undo “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” military leaders are preparing for the full integration of…

Read the latest news about blacks and abortion on The Root. Ryan Bomberger was born of a rape nearly 30 years ago. He is alive today because his biological mother made a choice, he says, to put him up for adoption rather than have an abortion. He is grateful, though he realizes the choice was…

Much has been made of President Obama’s recent tax-cut backtrack, but the most disheartening White House move actually played out far away from Capitol Hill. Buried within the news cycle was the announcement that the United States would no longer press Israel to stop West Bank settlement construction as a precondition for continued peace-process negotiations…