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  • Why You Should Support This Tea Party Candidate
    June 22, 2010

    In tonight’s primary elections, there’s no race more important to America’s black community -- progressive or conservative -- than that of the Republicans vying for South Carolina's 1st Congressional seat.

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  • Miss Virginia Wins Miss America Crown
    January 31, 2010

    Caressa Cameron is the seventh African-American to take the title at the 88-year-old pageant.

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  • The Confab -- Jan. 29, 2010
    January 29, 2010

    This week on The Confab: The not-so-big message behind the president's State of the Union address, why Chris Matthews forgot that he was white and the fading headlines on Haiti's recovery. Plus, the unappealing iPad and "trifling" state of John Edwards. Join The Root's managing editor Joel Dreyfuss as he talks with senior culture writer Teresa Wiltz, Washington reporter Dayo Olopade and The Root's regular contributor Kai Wright.

     

    * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.

    * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

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  • The Confab -- Jan. 22, 2010
    January 22, 2010

    This week on The Confab: World -- and local -- disasters. Why Haitians must "watch the people with the guns and the people with the briefcases, too." Plus, Obama -- a year later. What went wrong in Massachusetts? And why does the revolution stop at the White House? Join The Root's managing editor Joel Dreyfuss as he talks with senior culture writer Teresa Wiltz, Washington reporter Dayo Olopade and Washington Post editor Robert Pierre.

     

    * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.

    * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

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  • The Confab -- Jan. 8, 2010
    January 8, 2010

    This week on The Confab: Are we living in a police state? What does the Christmas Day attack say about U.S. security? Is President Obama making our country safer? Plus, Tiger Woods drama: "The gift that won't stop giving." Join The Root's Washington reporter Dayo Olopade as she talks with managing editor Joel Dreyfuss, senior culture writer Teresa Wiltz and contributor to The Root David Swerdlick.

     

    * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.

    * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

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  • 10 People We Don't Want To See in 2010
    December 4, 2009

    Call it wishful thinking if you’d like, but as 2009 draws to a close, here’s to hoping that the following politicos, pop stars and “whatever they do” celebrities go MIA in 2010.

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  • Knick That LeBron Talk in The Bud
    by Martin Johnson on 
    November 26, 2008

    Last Friday, the New York Knicks made two trades, getting three journeymen players, forwards Al Harrington and Tim Thomas and guard Cuttino Mobley (whose health has kept the trades from being considered final). But to hear the locals tell it, the Knicks just acquired LeBron James.

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