By Dionne Ford
When former Louisiana Judge Keith Bardwell denied an interracial couple a marriage license in mid-October, it called to mind my family’s long history of straddling the color line. I’m black, my husband is white, and we have two biracial daughters. I am, like First Lady Michelle Obama and most other African Americans, the descendant of a black slave and a white master.

By Olympia Duhart
Keith Bardwell, the Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry an interracial couple recently, is using some tired, old arguments to support his biased decision.

By Nick Chiles and Denene Millner
Effortlessly, wonderfully, Barack and Michelle have done something that a year ago we might have proclaimed impossible: they have demonstrated with no uncertainty that not only is black love still possible, it is ordinary.