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KFC's Fowl Play
It's week one of the new year, but it seems like ye olde stereotyping won't drop as quickly as that ball did on midnight. It's a shame that my first TEWW post in 2010 has to be about ANOTHER ignorant ad, but I guess, racial sensitivity wasn't on KFC's resolution list.
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A Eunice Johnson Appreciation: Around the World With Ebony Fashion Fair
Audrey Smaltz, Ebony Fashion Fair’s legendary commentator, reminisces about hitting the road with the doyenne of black fashion.
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BOMB THE ROOT: The June Jordan Interview
In this 1995 interview culled from BOMB Magazine's digital archives, poet June Jordan talks about race in Los Angeles, crime television and how she ended up making an opera.
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Should Harold Ford Jr. Run for Senate in New York?
Young, black up-and-comer Harold Ford Jr. has been out of the political game for four years. Will a 2010 bid for the New York Senate bring his mojo back?
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Why Retiring Lawmakers Are Good For America
A slew of Democratic lawmakers are dropping out of the 2010 races. While it may look like retreat, it's probably for the best.
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Celebrating Miles Davis
A Paris show illuminates the life and music of the great jazz musician.
Headlines for 2010: Part II
The first year of the “tweens” promises radical change—and resolutions to some of the unfinished business of the decade before.
How Warren Washington Is Solving the Puzzle of Climate Change
One egg yolk at a time.
BOMB THE ROOT: The Evelyne Trouillot Interview
In this 2004 interview culled from BOMB Magazine’s Digital Archives, Haitian writer Evelyne Trouillot talks to Edwidge Danticat about Haiti’s complex history of violent political unrest.
NEWS STAND: Ebony’s Eunice Johnson Dies, Kenya Ousts Jamaican Cleric
Ebony's Eunice Johnson dies, Kenya ousts Jamaican cleric, France resists university quotas.
5 Campaign Promises That Obama Kept
Yes, there are a lot of things that Obama didn’t do in his first year in office. But here are five things that he did.
Facing the American Future
A letter from The Root’s Managing Editor, Joel Dreyfuss.
Cuba 2010: The Year of (Even) More Belt Tightening
On the 51st anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Leonardo Padura, Cuba’s best-known novelist, looks at the beginning of the next 50 years.
BOMB THE ROOT: The Keith Antar Mason Interview
In this 1994 interview culled from BOMB Magazine’s Digital Archives, performance artist and playwright Keith Antar Mason talks about black anger, pushing the envelope and why he’s not the Ice Cube of performance art.
A Highly Opinionated Take on the Top 10 Movies of the Decade
No, there’s not a single Tyler Perry flick on the list.
NEWS STAND: Dems Defend TSA Nominee Southers, Asian-American Gains in New York, Iraqis Angered by Blackwater Decison, Rush Loves U.S. Health Care
Democrats defend TSA Nominee, New York's first Asian comptroller, Iraqis angered by Blackwater decision, Rush Limbaugh loves US health care.
The 2000s: The Erasure of Boundaries
The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., looks back at the first decade of the first century of the new millennium.
NEWS STAND: Who Lost Abdulmuttalab? Mass Murder, European Style
Looking for someone to blame in the case of the underwear bomber, Finland's deadly rash of shootings
Reviewing Pop Culture in the ‘00s
Despite two wars and a day of real terror, we seemed determined not to keep it real.
BOMB THE ROOT: The Lorenzo Pace Interview
In this 2005 video interview culled from BOMB magazine’s digital archives, sculptor and children’s book author Lorenzo Pace talks about his great-grandfather's journey through slavery in the early 19th century
The Decade in Race: WTF Was That?
This has been a decade in racial progress—and setbacks. From the curb, it may be hard to tell the difference. The Root breaks it all down, so you don’t have to.
The Republican Right: Al-Qaeda’s Unwitting Hype Men?
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s alleged terrorism attempt shows Al-Qaeda no longer has the juice to conduct large-scale attacks. So why are Republicans playing into Osama Bin Laden’s hands?
The Boomers Broke It; Can Gen X-ers Fix It?
The Baby Boom generation traded the early revolutionary impulses for a status quo of greed, selfishness and temper tantrums. Now it is up to us, their children, to rescue their legacy.
A New Terror Threat?
The latest botched act of terrorism raises important questions about U.S. competence in guarding against terror, and yet another American effort to build an important relationship with a fragile, unstable country.
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Gilbert Arenas Suspended Indefinitely
And something of a gun enthusiast, which isn't sitting well with the NBA...
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The '10 Census...1910 Census
The 2010 Census Board says they included "Negro" on the form because some people still identify that way...
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Tavis Smiley Ends State of the Black Union Conference
Black presidencies and bloggers started cramping Smiley's style...
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Venus Wept: Booty Pop Panties
If history's shown us anything, it's that curves on a woman are always appreciated...
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The Anti-Gay Conference of Uganda is...Something
Some people really don't have anything better to do...
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Check It Out: President Obama's Aviation Security Remarks
President Obama delivers much-anticipated remarks on aviation security...
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Check It Out: Steele Uses Slur to Talk about GOP Values
You can't make this stuff up...
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Read/React: Brit Hume's Advice to Tiger
Brit Hume has some unsolicited advice for Tiger Woods...
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Ice Cold: Alpha Phi Alpha Freezes Membership Intake Nationwide
Alpha Phi Alpha won't be taking in any new members this year...
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Blacks Lose Majority in Harlem
Available property has brought a population shift to Harlem...
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Morgan Freeman's Voice Solves Everything
Morgan Freeman's voiceover has replaced Walter Cronkite's on CBS Evening News...
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Does Beyonce Support Terror?
Unlikely, but she did sing at a New Year's Eve party thrown by Moammar Khadafy's son...
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Bomber's Dad Father of the Year?
Alhaji Umaru Mutallab likely did not turn his son in to be tortured for information...
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Photo: The Third State Dinner Crasher
Sources say Carlos Allen was another uninvited guest at the State Dinner...
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A Pesky Teabagger Sign
According to Dale Robertson, Congress = Slaveowners, making taxpayers...
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Is President Obama Giving Joe Biden the Side Eye?
Bloggers and pundits weigh in on this photo pulled from the White House flickr page...
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Found: Statue of Black Egyptian Pharaoh
The monumental statue was discovered in the Sudan and is said to weigh one ton...
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Check It Out: Mooney on Obama
Comedian Paul Mooney sits down with journalist Davey D and discusses Obama, predicting Black presidents and free speech...



































