The Herald-Sun, in its front-page analysis (registration required) of the role race has played in the 2008 election, opens with a curiously misleading sentence: When Barack Obama announced he was ...

April Ryan has covered Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama as White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks. She describes herself as “the only black woman reporter with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In a tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson, President Donald Trump contested claims of his racism and once again ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill in the final stretch of their statewide campaigns for governor in Virginia ...

(The Root) — They know we can’t prove it. We can deduce and infer from their actions, statements and policies. But we can’t confirm that congressional Republicans, a bloc of nearly unbroken whiteness, ...

As the Virginia Flaggers loft their Confederate flag in opposition to the ‘tyranny’ of 2013, Jamelle Bouie of The Daily Beast argues that racial bias plays at least some part in Obama’s collapse in ...

In a piece for the New Yorker, Jelani Cobb explains how the Obama presidency has “validated both our hopes and our fears and given dueling legitimacy to optimism and cynicism simultaneously.” … There ...

For President Barack Obama, the intersection of race and the law has revealed both the pitfalls and the power of wading into these delicate matters as the nation's first black president.

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama addressed U.S. struggles with class and race in personal terms on Tuesday and renewed his call to close tax loopholes enjoyed by wealthy hedge ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In a tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson, President Donald Trump contested claims of his racism and once again insulted former President Barack Obama. Jackson, a legendary civil rights ...