If Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek pronounced “He is the first black president in North America,” most of us would confidently answer “Who is Barack Obama?” And we would be wrong. The fact is that Mexico, not ...

Skip Gates, the Harvard historian and editor of The Root, writes that Mexico had an elected leader of African descent – Vicente Guerrero–Â five decades before the Abraham Lincoln moved to emancipate ...

Barak Obama admires Abraham Lincoln. Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black president, was his nation’s Lincoln. In 1829 he issued Mexico’s slavery abolition decree (which led a few years later to ...

Editor’s Note: While Sept. 16 commemorates the famous cry for Mexico’s independence from Spain, it is important to remember that Texas was part of Spain in 1810 and that the “grito” reverberated ...