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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onApril 20, 2012
The actor and Clybourne Park producer hopes a play about race makes you laugh in an uncomfortable way.
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by Lynette Holloway onApril 19, 2012
Rising childhood-obesity rates spur officials to restore physical education.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onApril 16, 2012
This filmmaker says that BMI is meaningless and stress is making African Americans obese.
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April 14, 2012
Join The Root, star athletes and others, for a solution.
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by Rebecca Walker onFebruary 18, 2011
Right-wing muttering about the "nanny state" is merely propaganda aimed at the white middle class.
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October 15, 2009
First lady Michelle Obama made a big speech addressing the matter at the Department of Health and Human Services this week. Her remarks—like her entire approach to food policy since moving to Washington—were casual, yet insistent, speaking not just to the federal employees but to all working families.
