Katrina Pierson isn’t who most people picture when they think of the tea party. The movement is, according to a recent survey, 83 percent white, and the 37-year-old political activist is an ...

If you don't know who Ben Carson is, you should. He's a hero and role model to millions. With hard work and gifted hands, Carson traveled from working-class Detroit roots to become head of pediatric ...

Anyone who can somehow remember way back to the olden days - May 1, 2011, to be exact - knows that President Barack Obama is quite capable of delivering a stand-up routine, dressed in black tie and ...

David Swerdlick is a regular contributor to The Root. On a day when President Barack Obama sucked the oxygen out of the news cycle with his visit to New York's Ground Zero, when marquee names like ...

David Swerdlick is a regular contributor to The Root. To put the hypocrisy of Republicans into context when it comes to Libya, it's worth pointing out that two of the congressmen joining Democratic ...

After two weeks of controversy over the arrest of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates by the Cambridge Police Department's Sgt. James Crowley, I could really go for a cold brew. Couldn't ...