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A Double Win for New Orleans
The city that has suffered through bleak times elects a new mayor and grabs a Super Bowl trophy in a single weekend.
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Less Leslie: One Year, 100 Pounds
Introducing Leslie J. Ansley’s new blog on how she will finally shed some pounds in 2010.
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Haiti, Bill O’Reilly and The Myth of the Dark Savage
With every catastrophe around the globe, need exceeds resources, and people struggle to survive by any means necessary. So why should Haitians be judged any differently?
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The Jobs Are Coming Back—But Are They Black?
January’s employment numbers are encouraging—and the White House hopes new support for small business will turn the tide.
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The Root Interview: Claude Steele on How Racial Stereotypes Harm Performance
Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks to the Columbia Provost about defanging the "stereotype threat," changing white colleagues' attitudes and "hypnotizing" black people. The interview is the second in a series conducted under the auspices of the Du Bois Review: Social Science on Race, a bi-annual journal housed at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University.
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Mr. Obama's Sweet Potato Pie
If it's sweet potato pie that Barack Obama wants, then it is sweet potato pie that Barack Obama must have.
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Spike Lee Speaks About 'Do the Right Thing' 20 Years later
VIDEO: Spike Lee, in a conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's Editor-in-Chief, calls out the critics who predicted violence at the release of his groundbreaking 1989 film and clarifies what the "right thing" really was.
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The Blackest White Folks We Know
Race relations have gotten a little crazy lately. An all-white basketball league? Seriously? Then there’s Rod Blagojevich, declaring that he’s “blacker than Obama.” The Root takes a look at those who claim "blackness" and those that we think make the cut -- whether they like it or not.
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Haiti: Before the Earthquake
Last summer, Frederic Dupoux, a Haitian photographer studying in France, went back to Haiti for an extended visit. He decided to take a picture every day during his visit, documenting it in his photoblog, 88DaysInHaiti. He remains there now, Tweeting when he can: “We were not expecting this most of us are not equipped for survival. Places need to start opening, we all need food, water & fuel.”
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Haiti's Hometown Heroes
A look in pictures at Haitians who have enriched America with their talents.
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The Confab -- Jan. 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
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. 15, 2010
This week on The Confab: Why is Haiti so unlucky? How has new media impacted earthquake relief efforts? And, will someone tell Pat Robertson to please shut up? Plus, the ever-evolving state of race? How possible is it to have a productive discussion. Join The Root's media and culture critic Natalie Hopkinson as she talks with managing editor Joel Dreyfuss, Jesse Washington of the Associated Press, Natalie Y. Moore from Chicago Public Radio and Racialicious' Latoya Peterson.
* Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.
* Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.
