Dateline Los Angeles: Glamorous Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan caused controversy today when she referred to Barack Obama as “our first colored president” in an interview with Access Hollywood (which is only available on something called “television”)!  Apparently, nobody’s told the dreamy actress that dark-skinned leaders have...

This morning, I spoke to a (white) friend who immigrated to the US from South Africa.  He tells me that he’s having trouble deciding which meant more to him, his vote for Barack Obama or the one he cast  in 1994 for Nelson Mandela.

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This is one of the most inspiring stories I’ve ever read. Here’s the first paragraph and a photo of Ms. Jones: Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country’s first black...

Why do Republicans always use the same unoriginal, dumb tactics to try and keep black people from voting? A phony flier, purporting to be from the Virginia Board of Elections, is circulating in the African-American-heavy Hampton Roads region of the state, falsely informing people that, because of expected high turnout, Democrats should vote on November...