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PODCAST: The Confab
This week on The Confab: Marriage equality comes to D.C., but is the fight over for same-sex couples? Plus, a look at women, power and black pathology: Why are black women getting such a bad rap?
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Detroit School Leader Otis Mathis Can't Write
by Deron SnyderWith the city’s kids scoring dead last on national tests, isn’t that a problem?
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Single-Minded: So Now We're Sexual Terrorists?
by Helena AndrewsWhen fear of herpes lurks behind every other hookup.
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The Root Interview: Spike Lee, Part Two
by Brentin MockThe director talks about a missed opportunity with David Simon’s Treme, gentrification and why so many black politicians are in trouble.
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The Road From Selma to Montgomery, Revisited
by Melanie EversleyTaking an emotional trip with civil rights icons and their loved ones, 45 years after the marches that spurred equal voting rights.
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Your Take: Job Creation Begins at Home
by Phaedra Ellis-LamkinsCongress should focus on green jobs to get past the gridlock, says the CEO of Green for All.
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Letter From Sierra Leone
An American journalist in West Africa discovers that the legacy of slavery still divides us from our African cousins.
The Root Interview: Spike Lee
The filmmaker talks all things NOLA, from former Mayor C. Ray Nagin to the Super Bowl win to his latest documentary about Katrina, “If God is Willing and The Creek Don’t Rise."
Tomorrow's Crop of Black Women Leaders
In Part 3 of our Women’s History Month series on leadership, why the future looks brighter.
FBI Shuts Down Civil Rights Era Investigations
Agency will let old murder cases stay cold.
Basketball's Forgotten (Black) History
Before the NBA was desegregated, there were the Black Fives.








