Mixed Race

Michelle Obama Descended From Young Slave Girl and White Owner

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Marlene H. Phillips

First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother, a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia, was impregnated by a white slave owner.

Barack Obama is Not Black

Earnest Harris | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Earnest Harris

Barack Obama is both black and white and he is neither black nor white, and he is mixed and he is half. He is all of those things and he is none of those things.

Barack Hussein Obama: Born To Be Hurt?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment


Michael Henry Adams

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Being Biracial and Black in the Age of Obama

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics


Casey Gane-McCalla

When Obama was born, it was illegal in 16 states for blacks to mary whites. Today the product of a relationship between a black man and a white woman is the President of the United States.

Freakonomics: Interracial Sex Makes Us More Beautiful

Twanna A. Hines | Posted 09.19.2008 | Style


Twanna A. Hines

I was raised to be a strong black woman who stuck it to The Man, but I've spent the past decade sticking it with him. Several of them.

Leona Lewis' Video Too Dangerous For America?

Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.24.2008 | Entertainment


Dipayan Gupta

When the team behind rising British songstress Leona Lewis chose to ditch the UK video of "Bleeding Love" and create a different US version, they must have done so for a reason.