Michelle Obama Descended From Young Slave Girl and White Owner
First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother, a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia, was impregnated by a white slave owner.
First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother, a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia, was impregnated by a white slave owner.
Earnest Harris | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
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Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
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.
Twanna A. Hines | Posted 09.19.2008 | Style
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.
Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.24.2008 | Entertainment
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.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics