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  • Black Republicans: More a Ripple Than a Wave
    by Lenny McAllister on 
    June 11, 2010

    Despite their failures in the 2010 primaries, black Republicans are erasing the shameful legacy of the Southern strategy and modern black politics.

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  • The Confab -- June 11, 2010
    June 11, 2010

    This week on The Confab: Alvin Greene's surprising victory in South Carolina and why the year of the black republican doesn't live up to its hype. Plus, Generation Y's new age hustle: How America's 20-somethings are having fun at work. Join The Root's deputy editor Sheryl Huggins Salomon as she talks with staff writer Cord Jefferson and The Root's assistant editor Saaret E. Yoseph.

     

    * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.

    *Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

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  • Whatever Happened to the Black Republican Wave?
    by Cord Jefferson on 
    June 4, 2010

    The much-hyped surge of African Americans petered out in the first round of primaries. But black GOPers aren't giving up.

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