Politics

Here is the low-down: Tonight, The Root and Black Web 2.0 are hosting an event in D.C. to screen and discuss CNN’s “Black in America 2.” Check out our Facebook page:  The event will be from 8-10pm. We’ll be featuring a panel of young, black professionals, 30 and under, to weigh in with their thoughts…

I watched Barack Obama’s “Toward A More Perfect Union” in my living room, on a laptop computer with tinny speakers. Like millions of other Americans, I felt a surge of amazement, a sense of expanding possibility, at the sheer fact that a black man with a good chance of becoming president was speaking about race…

I loved living in Cambridge, Mass., except when I didn’t. And when I didn’t was when I had left my apartment late at night to walk to the all-night corner grocery store with just that $10 bill stuffed into my pocket, having left my wallet on the bookcase in the hallway. Then, strolling along, soon…

Liz Cheney thinks people are made uncomfortable by Obama because he seems reluctant to defend America. But didn’t he have Navy snipers buck three Somali pirates to save an American sea captain of no particular account? Isn’t he still waterboarding and indefinitely imprisoning people like your pops, Liz? Isn’t he applying his gangster in relative…

When in doubt, bring up the slavery days.

UPDATE: The disorderly conduct charges against Henry Louis Gates Jr. were dropped on Tuesday. Statement on Behalf of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — by Charles Ogletree This brief statement is being submitted on behalf of my client, friend, and colleague, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This is a statement concerning the arrest of Professor Gates.…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation’s pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University. Cambridge police were called to the home Thursday afternoon after a woman reported seeing a man “wedging his shoulder into the…

Barack Obama has been president for exactly six months, and we’ll have to wait a while to find out whether all the frenetic activity in these opening rounds of his presidency will amount to anything over the long haul. There is no argument that the administration and the president have both been busy and ambitious;…