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by Lauren Williams onSeptember 9, 2011
On Sept. 11, this writer worried about her father at the Pentagon. He lived, but the emotions remain.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onSeptember 10, 2010
On the ninth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, a sense of vulnerability still prevails in this country. That's not good for black Americans, Japanese Americans or Arab Americans, who know that fear fuels our worst behavior as a nation.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onDecember 23, 2009
The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., looks back at the first decade of the first century of the new millennium.
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December 23, 2009
When we asked our contributors to name the most important events of the decade, there were some obvious choices, and quite a few that reflect The Root’s unique worldview.
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