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With eight months remaining in the first mulatto presidency, Barack Obama is clearly more deeply invested in racial identity politics than anyone foresaw. A year ago I opined that in the remainder of his administration the president could salvage a legacy of pointing toward a transcendent commonality, a transcendence of race consciousness altogether. Unfortunately, the president had neither

Members of the Black Lives Matter movement are making sure the presidential candidates don't take their votes or their concerns for granted. The candidates are being confronted with activists who are responding to a string of deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police.

Democrats have traditionally won strong margins with black voters and that is unlikely to change in 2016. But

Hillary Clinton is the latest Democratic presidential candidate to be targeted by Black Lives Matter activists who are challenging a party that needs their votes.

The Black Lives Matter movement is buckling under the strain of its own success, with tensions rising between local chapters and national leaders over the group’s goals, direction — and money.

From the beginning, Black Lives Matter was a grass-roots effort, born in the streets with no central hierarchy. The idea: to keep power concentrated in the hands of its members, the people.