African-Americans

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  • Multiracial man

    The Obama campaign's deft use of the candidate's mixed heritage is making it harder to read his candidacy in terms of race.
    By James Hannaham February 2, 2008

  • An old-fashioned thumpin' in South Carolina

    After Bill Clinton's controversial campaign swing through the state, Barack Obama routs Hillary Clinton by a 2-to-1 margin in the Democratic primary.
    By Walter Shapiro January 27, 2008

  • Obama's historic run heads south

    Did his victory in Iowa and strong showing in New Hampshire really "put to rest the notion that a black candidate can't win in America"?
    By Walter Shapiro January 24, 2008

  • Will whites vote for Barack Obama?

    Obama has attracted white votes in Democratic primaries, but how would he fare with white America if he were the party's nominee?
    By Alex Koppelman January 24, 2008

  • The knives come out in South Carolina

    On Martin Luther King Day, the Democrats have their nastiest debate yet as the Clinton and Obama spat gets personal.
    By Walter Shapiro January 22, 2008

  • Clarence Thomas is not a sellout

    Blacks who challenge affirmative action and other "black orthodoxies" are not betraying their race. Or so argues author Randall Kennedy.
    By James Hannaham January 21, 2008

  • The race vs. gender war

    The Democratic race is starting to resemble a compulsory oppressed minorities course taught by political consultants. Let's stop squabbling and elect the best nominee.
    By Gary Kamiya January 15, 2008

  • The Clinton-Obama contest gets rougher

    Will the battle for the Democratic nomination turn into a debate about race and gender?
    By Walter Shapiro January 14, 2008

  • Chicago is Barack Obama's kind of town

    The city has a unique history of launching the careers of powerful black politicians -- which is part of the reason Obama moved there.
    By Edward McClelland January 14, 2008

  • Quote of the day

    A Glamocracy blogger tells Gloria Steinem that "the battles of the 1960s are over."
    By Tracy Clark-Flory January 11, 2008

  • Is abortion a civil rights issue?

    That's the argument being put forth by a group of African-American antiabortion activists.
    By Catherine Price January 8, 2008

  • The Oprah Winfrey show

    The TV host accompanies her chosen candidate to South Carolina as Barack Obama closes on Hillary Clinton in the polls.
    By Thomas F. Schaller December 10, 2007

  • Fantasies in black and white

    If even most African-Americans believe the black poor are primarily responsible for their own plight, does that make it true?
    By James Hannaham November 28, 2007

  • Is race dying?

    More than a third of black Americans no longer believe that blacks are a single race. This finding has alarmed some -- but it could help America out of its racial mess.
    By Gary Kamiya November 27, 2007

  • Obama: Don't pander to homophobes

    In a bid for the black church vote, the candidate is about to tour South Carolina with antigay gospel singer Donnie McClurkin at his side. He doesn't need to.
    By James Hannaham October 26, 2007

  • After Jena

    I applaud the outcry over Jena. But what about stopping the injustices inflicted on black people every day -- like crappy schools, underemployment and unequal sentencing?
    By Erin Aubry Kaplan September 25, 2007

  • Where have all the black models gone?

    Fashion insiders are campaigning against the lack of African-American supermodels.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory September 17, 2007

  • Mystery in black and white

    Stephen L. Carter helped put African-American mysteries on the map with his 2002 debut novel. But his latest thriller, "New England White," seems lost.
    By Alexis Soloski July 19, 2007

  • Healthy, my ass

    Many blacks love big women, but having a rump the size of Buffie the Body's can put women at risk for disease.
    By Debra Dickerson June 7, 2007

  • Karl Rove's big election-fraud hoax

    Republican manipulation of the polls long predates the U.S. attorneys plot -- and the U.S. voting system needs an overhaul.
    By Garrett Epps May 10, 2007

  • Condi Rice never looks back

    That attitude, says Marcus Mabry in his new biography of the secretary of state, has seriously harmed the United States.
    By Joe Conason May 4, 2007

  • Antiabortion activists fight "black genocide"

    Pro-choice groups like "Klan Parenthood" are intent on killing off blacks, they say.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory March 21, 2007

  • Don't be black on my account

    A black mother's gift to her biracial children.
    By Debra J. Dickerson March 5, 2007

  • Black vs. "black"

    Barack Obama is black -- he just isn't "black." And if his candidacy helps take the quotation marks off race in America, it's a good thing.
    By Gary Kamiya January 23, 2007

  • Colorblind

    Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race -- if he were actually black.
    By Debra J. Dickerson January 22, 2007
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