It began before he was even elected.  In the spring of 2008, when it became clear that the Illinois senator would likely be the Democratic nominee for president, there were chain emails declaring that Barack Obama was born not in Hawaii but in Kenya and was therefore ineligible.   The “Birther” effort, claiming the president’s…

So which one will it be, folks? If you’re voting on the Democratic side, are you going for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Who really has the interests of the black electorate at heart? A lot is at stake this year, when 31 percent of the eligible voters will be either black or Hispanic. The…

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hammered Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with a revolutionary win of her own in South Carolina Saturday. And not by a little—by a lot. Black voters, making up 61 percent of voters in the Democratic South Carolina primary, rocketed her to victory. Clinton beat Sanders in South Carolina by a stunning 73 percent…

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been out on the campaign trail for months, loudly telling voters about all the not-so-hot aspects of the current state of the U.S. economy—an economy that the Obama administration has touted as strong. Going against the administration’s many claims of an economic comeback, Sanders is calling the…

If you want the black vote, it helps if you hire individuals in key positions who reflect the community. That was the advice given to Democratic campaigns by Quentin James, co-founder of Inclusv, a hiring-initiative project created by Power PAC+, which released a report on staff diversity focused on hiring for each Democratic campaign.   “If staffers of…

Here’s a question: What could Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel do to prompt Democrats to call for his resignation? No Democrat has yet, even though Chicago’s mayor is in the throes of scandal centered around the issue of police misconduct. Last weekend Hillary Clinton was asked about Emanuel and answered, “Mayor Emanuel has said that he…

Spend time with “young thugs,” not CNN. That was one of the recommendations Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) had for President Barack Obama in a memo Wednesday on gun violence that he posted to Facebook. Wrote Mica: “Conduct town hall meetings, not on CNN, but rather with young thugs in homicide-prone cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit…

Members of both the black and Hispanic caucuses in Congress are furious about a new tax deal and spending package expected to pass the House and Senate Friday. The deal, involving over $1.1 trillion in federal spending and containing nearly $700 billion in unpaid-for tax cuts, is likely to be signed by President Barack Obama. “The…

On Tuesday, Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.) told The Root that he received a death threat on Dec. 7, the same day reality-TV-star-turned-presidential-candidate Donald Trump announced that Muslims should be barred from entering the U.S. The threat against Carson was referred to the U.S. Capitol Police.   Earlier this week, Trump released a statement, the first sentence of which called for “a…