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by Linda Villarosa onAugust 2, 2011
Like the president, who turns 50 on Aug. 4, I belong to a generation that expected a racial utopia.
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by E.R. Shipp onFebruary 22, 2011
Black retirees and children are more dependent than other groups on Social Security, yet their voices are often unheard in the debate over reform.
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June 24, 2010
The American Academy of Family Physicians reports that overwrought doctors are refusing to take new Medicare patients, hitting baby boomers hard.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onJanuary 2, 2010
A letter from The Root’s Managing Editor, Joel Dreyfuss.
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by Kai Wright onDecember 27, 2009
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.
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by Michael Dawson onJanuary 8, 2009
The politics of change began with us.
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by Robert A. George onDecember 17, 2008
Obama and Palin stake a claim on the future for Generation X.
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