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- First Queen of Hip-Hop Gets Her Ph.D.
- Is There a Science to Beauty?
- Semenya's Race and Sex Struggle
- To Love B. Scott
- Ted Kennedy Is Dead at 77
- Inglourious Masterpiece
- Move It, Lose It, Learn It
- The First Black Prez
- A Pill a Day to Keep HIV Away?
- Edward M. Kennedy: Civil Rights Champion
- Who Will Run New Orleans?
- Black and Coaching in the Ivy League
- Take Me Back to New Orleans
- Teddy the Radical
- Waiting for Charity in New Orleans
- BOOK EXCERPT: Dancing in the Dark
- BOOK EXCERPT: Dancing in the Dark
- BOOK EXCERPT: Dancing in the Dark
- Obama Eulogizes Ted Kennedy
- Why Health Care is Organized Crime
- A.I.'s Memphis Blues
- Obama's Right Mistake
- Michael’s Milk of Amnesia
- Whitney Houston: Call It a Comeback
- Chris Brown Looks Innocent
- How the Yankees Ruined Baseball
- Memo to Black Women: Get Real!
- The Kennedy Strategy
- Health Care And You Don't Stop
- A Matter of Principal
- George Will is Wrong ... This Week
- Van Jones Resigns
- The Van Jones Affair
- The Upside of Van Jones' Downfall
- Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Race
- Majora Carter Speaks
- uknowurblack
- Putting Our Faith in Health Care
- Obama's School Daze
- Successful and Still Unmarried
- South Africa's Reality Bites
- Obama: 'The Time for Games Has Passed'
- Are You Ready for Some Football?
- Jay-Z Should Rap About Marriage
- The Endless Aftermath of 9/11
- Michael Jordan’s Big ‘What If?’
- Holding Fast to Justice
- Food Justice! No Peas?
- Joe Wilson's War
- This is the President. Get Used to It.
- A 'Strange' Fusion of Blackness
- Serena, LeBron, Jordan and Risk-Reward
- Kanye West Does Not Care About Taylor Swift
- More Money, More Problems
- Big, Fat and Not Wack
- The Facebook/MySpace Divide
- MySpace to Facebook = White Flight?
- Lack of Black Techies, Web Redlining and That Darned Digital Divide
- 10 Reasons African Americans Should March on Washington About Health Care
- "An Overwhelming Portion of the Animosity Toward Pres. Obama is Based on the Fact That He is a Black Man."
- 'The Cosby Show' Had the Best Music of Any Sitcom Ever
- The President’s Own Tomato Patch
- An Exclusive Talk with Bill Cosby
- Jimmy Carter, True Son of the South, Hits Nail on Head
- 10 Kinda Fun Facts About 'The Cosby Show'
- The Uppity-Negro Syndrome
- Life After Cosby
- 'It’s Not on Obama. It’s Really Still on Us.'
- Rookie Mistake
- Taking Back the House—The On-Screen and Real-Life Politics of Bill Cosby
- The Huxtables Changed Not Television or Politics—But the Idea of Black Family
- Brick City: Newark's Real Reality Show
- Jimmy Carter's Difficult Truth
- The Congressional Black Caucus is Going to Run D.C. This Week
- JUMP BALL!
- 'For Colored Girls' Who Don't Like Tyler Perry
- Tyler Perry Is the Absolute Truth
- QUIZ: Not Everything Is About Race. Yes, It Is!
- Yes, Barack Is Busy. And?
- What Is a 'Feminista,' Exactly?
- Cuba's Real Revolution
- A New World Order
- Jay-Z and Oprah Make Lemon Pie
- Fame, Shame.
- Black President, Black Caucus, More Powerful Than Ever?
- Loud and In Living Colour
- ‘More Than a Game’ Is About More Than LeBron
- Male Nudity, Illicit Substances and Ill-Timed Professions of Love
- The GOP Follies
- Death to All Panels
- The Beating of Derrion Albert Is Must-See TV
- Bad Karma—Awful Team
- John Edwards: He Was Always the One To Watch
- Color-Struck Around The Globe
- Cory Booker’s (Media) Deal With the Devil
- Protect Your Tech!
- Book ’Em!
- Sweet Dream
- This. Really. Works.
- A Black Republican's Memo to Democrats
- Michael Vick's Bright Future
- Bandwagon Season in the NFL
- Out of the 'Hood—A Derrion Albert Parable
- Farewell, Ebony. You Earned Your Retirement.
- Is There a Next Page for ‘Ebony’?
- Hell Yeah, There’s Still Slam-Banging Black Music
- Walk It Out
- Sneaker Freaker
- Starting Now, There Is No Such Thing as 'Black Music'
- Former Republican Senator and Charles 'Roc' Dutton Want No More Life in Prison for Teenagers
- Sexist!? Misogynistic!? Chauvinistic!?
- Dwight Howard and Serena Williams Naked From the Waist Down
- Give Me the Light
- Game On!
- Will There Be an Obama Effect for Black Women?
- Michelle’s Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours
- Owner of D.C.'s Famous Ben's Chili Bowl Dies at 82.
- Men Have ‘Good Hair’ Issues, Too
- The Naked Truth About Serena Williams
- Michael Moore's Capitalism Is Creaky
- ‘Good Hair,’ Bad Vibes
- Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
- What's Wrong With the Nobel Peace Prize?
- Is My 4-Year-Old Racist?
- Go Slow, Oslo!
- Afghanistan Doesn’t Have To Be Vietnam
- Why Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
- Wade in Hot Water
- Dear Mr. President: Congratulations on That Nobel Peace Prize
- Remembering the Buffalo Soldiers
- Will the Culture Wars Return Under Obama?
- Meshell Ndegeocello Is Back With a New Album—‘Devil’s Halo’
- So Fresh and So Clean
- 'Nobody Really Knows What Happened.’ Yes, We Do.
- Beat It!
- Rattled By the Rush
- If Governor Paterson Goes, So Does the Power of Harlem
- Fall TV: A ROOT Guide
- Health Care Bill Passes. No Public Option. Yet?
- The Small, Hot Argument Across Hip-Hop's Mini-Generation Gap
- The Roots & Eminem Honor LL Cool J With 'Rock The Bells'
- The New Black TV Guide
- 'Grown Man' Rappers Like Jay-Z or Common Are Mature Only in the Absence of Immaturity
- NFL Rushes Past Rush’s Pass Rush
- A Few Reasons No One Seems To Be Pushing Rangel Around?
- 6 Steps to Save New Orleans
- The Root 100
- Fly Little Biracial Balloon Boy, Fly...
- Will Smith Is No Fred Williamson
- Michael Steele's Glass House
- 5 Reasons Why President Obama Should Go on Fox
- Special Report: ‘Underground’ Pledging vs. ‘Membership Intake Process’
- Bill Cosby Live at Lincoln Center: Humble? Hardly. Hilarious? Absolutely.
- BGLO Special Report: Dangerous Hazing Has Not Stopped
- How the (Dr. Cornel) West Was Won
- Oprah Is Wrong About ‘Precious'
- Baltimore's (Political) Race Men
- Morehouse’s Crossroads Has Nothing To Do With ‘Ghetto Gear’ or Cross-Dressing
- Meet The Root 100
- Words From the Other Mr. (Cornel) West
- When Will Black Greeks Stop Hazing to Death?
- What the ‘N’ in UNCF Stands For These Days
- A Different World
- Who Will Teach the Children?
- Huevazo: A Governor With Egg on His Face
- Yes, Black Women Play Lacrosse
- Why I Went Black
- Olivia Fox, Soldier for Black Radio
- Obamastan
- Is the USDA Still the Last Plantation?
- This Isn’t A Computer Scan
- Flashing Lights
- Power Trip
- Five-Star Notebook
- Why No One Talks Back to Cathy Hughes
- How to Be a Black Genius
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Edwidge Danticat
- The Woman Behind Michelle Obama
- Are Immigrants of Color Being Targeted for Deportation?
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Elyn R. Saks
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Beth Shapiro
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Richard O. Prum
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Daniel Mikhail Sigman
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Esther Duflo
- Jump Ball: Lakers in the West; Magic in the East
- World Series: Can Pedro Bury His Yankee Ghosts?
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Lynsey Addario
- Inside the Mind of a Genius: Rackstraw Downes
- Before They Take Your Home
- Picture Perfect
- Japan's Salsa Sensation
- What's on The Root's Nightstand?
- Q-Tip's Return to Grace
- Obama’s Inherited Mess
- How Howard Homecoming Stole the Spotlight
- Audiences Leave MJ Movie Asking, 'This Is It'?
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- Who You Callin’ Uncle Tom?
- Prop 8 Redux
- Some of My Best Friends are Uncle Toms
- The Bank Tried to Take My Home!
- 10 Books That Didn't Get 'The Treatment'
- Lit for Little People: Bedtime Stories for the 21st Century
- Winter Read-In: The War on Terror Book Club
- Obama One Year Later: Tinkering We Can Believe In
- What BET Can Teach Us About Politics
- The Death of Newsroom Swagger
- Don't Believe the GOP Hype
- Raise Your Voice for Health Care Reform
- ‘Precious’ and the Pushback
- Fort Hood Shooting Kills at Least 12
- Rihanna Breaks Her Silence
- Hollywood: Same As It Ever Was
- Takin' It to the Street (Sesame Street, That Is)
- Happy 35th Birthday, Black Book!
- Did the Ft. Hood Killer Go Postal or Go Terrorist?
- When Lawyers Go Rogue
- The D.C. Sniper Should Die. But Not Like This.
- Why Black People Took to the Streets in Chicago
- What’s Islam Got to Do With It?
- The Truth About Incest
- Did Burris Save the Public Option?
- The Color Precious
- On the Road to Entrepreneurship
- Does Hollywood Still Have a Brown Paper Bag Test?
- Star-Spangled Muslims
- Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
- How ‘Precious’ Is Like Palin’s ‘Going Rogue’
- Rakim's Back
- Turkey Fry Gone Awry
- The (Not So) New World Order
- Maybe Your Great-Grandmother Really Was Cherokee
- Storming the Court?
- Shaniya's Shame
- What Kobe, LeBron and Dwyane Owe Spencer Haywood
- Oprah's Blackest Moments
- What Would the Pilgrims Say About Tofu?
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- Report Alleges Interrogators Used Gun, Drill to Threaten Terror Suspects
- Um, Thanks, McDonald's?
- On Second Thought: Niger Delta Militants End Ceasefire
- Goings On: The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
- BREAKING: AG Holder to Appoint Prosecutor for Interrogation Investigation
- Michael Jackson's Death Ruled a Homicide
- Jena 6 Teen Gets Chance to Turn It Around
- More than a Woman: Reflecting on Aaliyah's Legacy Eight Years Later
- South Sudan Issued a Hunger Warning
- Obama to Give Bernanke Another Title Shot
- The Overlooked: Seven Groups the Media Doesn't Touch
- Are We Surprised?
- Prior Incidents Emerge at Chris Brown Sentencing
- After-School Programs, Vital to Working Parents, Coming Undone
- NY Governor Paterson Backpedals from Race Remarks, Kind Of
- AUDIO: Limbaugh Responds to Jay-Z's 'Off That'; Claims He's 'On' No One's Man Parts
- Someone at Microsoft Engages in Hi-Jinks
- Jay-Z to Do 9/11 Benefit Concert; Probably Won't Hug It Out with Rush Limbaugh
- 'Missouri Model' Gives Juvenile Offenders Chance to Go Legit
- VIDEO: Bloggingheads Talk Ted Kennedy
- Oprah's Takeover Stalled
- History, Uncovered: Emmett Till's Casket to Be Donated to New Museum
- Oui, Son! French Rap and the Politics of Free Speech
- Judge OKs Vick's Bankruptcy Plan
- AUDIO: Michael Steele Wants to Reform Medicare, Hates Government-Run Health Care
- How Kennedy Helped Ron Brown and Roger Wilkins
- Was MJ Bleaching His Skin?
- Semenya's Testosterone Test Results
- Whitney Houston's "I Look to You" Celebrates Singer's Arc
- Obama Supporters Trying to Get Tough on Health Care
- Chris Brown Claims He Doesn't Remember Mollywhopping Rihanna
- Ethiopian Troops Enter Somalia to Help Out
- Black Woman Wins Mayoral Race in Italian Town
- AG Holder, Justice Department Not Playing When It Comes to Civil Rights
- VIDEO: AZ Pastor Doesn't Want President Obama Killed, Sort Of
- Rwandan Genocide Trial Begins in Finland
- Remember the War in Afghanistan? There's a Progress Report Coming Out
- AUDIO: Detroit Mayor Dave Bing Warns City Has More Rough Days Ahead
- Canada, Hide Your Strippers: Pacman Jones Signs with CFL Team
- Blame It on the O-O-O-O-O-O-Oprah! Houston Loses Voice on 'GMA'
- Obama May Speak on Obscure Issue Known as "Health Care"
- Bolt May Go for Four Golds in 2012; Tyson Gay, Others Sad
- So, About Dr. Roxanne Shante...
- Ex-Inmate Attempts to Break Into Jail, Fails
- Spelman Student Killed by Stray Bullet
- VIDEO: Football Player Tackles Gun-Wielding Girl, Saves Students
- Fly Like an Eagle: Vick Eligible to Play Week 3
- Finally: Michael Jackson Interred at Forest Lawn
- Hope He Had Insurance: Dude Has Finger Bitten Off at Health Care Rally
- VIDEO: Howard University Students Demand Better Treatment
- Trouble Brews as Drought Devastates Kenya
- H-U-B-B-U-B: The President's Remarks to Students
- UPDATE: Our Brains Have Been Washed!
- VIDEO: It's Probably a Very Refreshing Beverage. Or Something.
- Rare Air: Former NC State Star to Be Jordan's HOF Presenter
- A Tribute for MJ, Ratings for MTV
- Honoring Dead Son's Wish, Parents Wed at the End of His Funeral
- Sudanese Woman, Imprisoned for Wearing Pants, Freed
- Peaceful Resolution to Aeromexico Hijacking
- Excerpts from Obama's Forthcoming Health Care Speech
- So a Birther in a Joe Wilson Costume Heckled the President...
- VIDEO: Degrade Inflation - Darfur Group Says Genocide Numbers Falsified
- Jeter Ties Gehrig on Yankees' All-Time Hit List
- Results Back for South African Track Star
- VIDEO: ACORN Workers Allegedly Giving Streetwalking Advice
- Greed Ain't Good: Comrade Obama Sets Sights on Wall Street
- VIDEO: As the Kids Say: "ROFL"
- Body of Missing Yale Student Found
- Actor Patrick Swayze Succumbs to Cancer at 57
- Lockerbie Bomber's Health Worsens
- Death by Samurai Sword for Man Who Broke into Student's Garage
- Social Networks in Ghana Used to Entrap Gays
- The Woman Who Would Be King
- Woman Beaten in Front of Daughter at Cracker Barrel
- Trevor Rhone, Famed Jamaican Playwright, Dies at 69
- Caster Semenya Placed on Suicide Watch
- Dozens Killed as Kenya Continues to Suffer from Drought
- UPDATE: Lab Tech in Arrested Annie Le Murder
- Stepping Up: Vince Young Takes McNair Boys to School's Dads' Breakfast
- Trafigura's Toxic Waste Won't Let Ivory Coast Be Great
- Tavis, You Got Some 'Splainin' to Do...
- White House: David, We're Gonna Need You to Fall Back
- UPDATE: Florida Husband Suspected in Murder of Family Arrested in Haiti
- Boss Lady: Army Names First Female Top Drill Sergeant
- At Least Six Killed in Georgia Flooding
- Going for Two: Plaxico Burress Sentenced to 24 Months
- Ghosts of Timberlake: White Cop Told to Lose Cornrows
- Obama to World: America's Awesome, Still Can't Fix Problems Alone
- Complexion for the Rejection: Philly Swim Club Fined for Racism
- Federal Worker Hanged, 'Fed' Scrawled Across Chest
- Vaccine Shows Promise in HIV Prevention
- The (No) Nuclear Option: UN Rez Aims for Nuke-Free World
- Something to Shout About: Serena Williams Pens Book
- Black Lawmakers Adjust to Post-Inauguration Politics
- Obama, Others Set to Put Shoe in Iran Over Its Nuclear Program
- Just in Time for Elections, Al-Bashir Lifts Media Censorship in Sudan
- Loves School, Hates Freedom: Obama Wants Longer School Days
- VIDEO: Chicago Honor Student Fatally Beaten
- Blair Underwood Opens HIV/AIDS Clinic in DC
- Three Charged with Murder in Death of Derrion Albert
- USC Running Back Hurt in Weight Room Accident
- Nigerian UN Peacekeeper Killed in Darfur
- The First Lady Says: I'm Ready to Knuckle Up for '16 Games in Chicago
- A Touch of Magic: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith to Host Nobel Concert
- World's Poorest Receiving More HIV Treatment
- Tsunami Levels Villages in Samoan Islands
- Shocking? Dementia Rate Higher Among NFL Players
- VIDEO: Newark Mayor Cory Booker Puts Conan O'Brien on 'No Fly' List
- UPDATE: Nike Will Give Vick Free Stuff, That's About It
- Obama Watched Derrion Albert Beating, Will Speak on Violence "Soon"
- Bodies Pile as Detroit Unable to Bury Dead
- UPDATE: The World:"President Who? Rio Wins."
- A Bit of Magic: One of the Final Interviews with DJ Mr. Magic
- Under Amnesty, Nigerian Rebel Disarms
- Eight US Soldiers Killed in Afghan Battle
- Teen Confesses in Shooting Death of 13-Year Old Queens Boy
- Deeds Camp and Natl. Stutter Assoc. Clap Back
- Hey Afghanistan, We're Not Going Anywhere
- Crabtree, Sad 49ers Winning Sans Him, Signs Contract
- Justices Chit Chat about Depictions of Animal Cruelty
- Tyler Perry Reveals History of Abuse
- Bigots Wept: Michelle Obama Has White Ancestors!
- Butcher Blocked: Uganda Arrests Rwandan Genocide Suspect
- Charlie Rangel'd? The Ethics Investigation Expands
- Searching for Water, NASA Busts Out Moonraker Laser
- While You Were Out: Sen. Panel Approves Patriot Act Extension
- AUDIO: New MJ Single Released; Tupac Shakur Calls Him "Show Off"
- Jump Out Boys, Inc.: Kidnapping Big Business in Kenya
- White House is Sick of FOX
- TRANSCRIPT: Obama Gay Rights Speech
- Forget 'Black' Barbie
- Tennis Federation Hates Freedom, May Fine Serena
- According to Study, Baucus Plan Raises Rates
- Cory Booker to Settle Beef with Conan
- Obama Sending More Troops to Afghanistan on the Hush
- Fox Report: Black Republicans Will RUN 2010
- King Kids Settle Lawsuit Over Estate
- Not-So-Good Deeds? Dems Wonder about Va. Candidate
- Teens Wept: Sidekick Phones Lose Data, Contacts
- Over 1,000 Killed in E. Congo According to Aid Groups
- Russian FM: "Hey Hils, Easy on the 'Iran Sanctions' Talk"
- Has Hip-Hop Come "of Age"?
- Baucus Bill Passes Senate Finance Committee
- Roger Goodell Likes Mike Vick More than Rush Limbaugh
- Morehouse Takes a Page Out of GQ
- UCLA Chem Lab Stabber Pleads Not Guilty
- Who Doesn't 'Swastika' Obama?
- Ghosts of Katrina Await Obama in New Orleans
- 94 Years Later, S. Carolina Pardons Two Death Row Inmates
- Don't Call It a Comeback: Egypt in Row Over Artificial Virginity Device
- NPR Doesn't Care About Black Music, Sorta
- Van Clief-Stefanon, Hoose, Williams-Garcia Among National Book
- Should Health Care Be the 'Rodney King Moment' of the 21st Century?
- Rep. Meek Counts on 'Service Workers' and White House for Win
- Singer Leona Lewis Punched at London Bookstore
- Are You 30? 'Rapper's Delight' Is
- You're in Texas and You're Not a Cop?
- Cash Strapped, States Cutting Inmates' Time
- Following Civil War, Sudan Returns to Nature
- UPDATE: Box Originally Attached to Experimental Craft is Missing
- Gallup Poll Finds Hillary More Popular Than Barack
- A Child Asks Barack Obama, 'Why Do People Hate You?'
- Judge Crawls Out of Medieval Times, Denies Marriage License to Mixed-Race Couple
- Four Troops Killed in Afghanistan
- Obama, Bush 41 Team Up in Service Initiative
- Obama Too Cautious, Slow on Judicial Posts?
- Chris Brown Is Back on the Charts
- Breaking the Last Racial Taboo?
- Rap Responds to Derrion Albert's Murder
- UCONN Football Player Fatally Stabbed
- Listen Up! Is Harry Reid Tough Enough?
- Check It Out: Spike Jonze and Kanye West's 'We Were Once A Fairy Tale'
- Gates Foundation Puts $10M on Black History Museum
- Check It Out: Questions Still Circle McNair Death
- Listen Up! Hugs Help Reporter Cover Stories
- Marc Lamont Hill Reportedly Fired for Not Being Juan Williams
- Charges Dropped Against One Teen in Derrion Albert Death
- Check It Out: Secretary Clinton Remarks on US' Sudan Policy
- Afghan President Karzai Agrees to Run-Off
- New Jack, Old Jack: Will Obama Posthumously Pardon Ex-Champ?
- Michelle Obama to Chop It Up With Leno on Friday
- Keith Bardwell Defends Denied Interracial Marriage
- Arrests Made in UCONN Player's Death
- Listen Up! RZA Authors Book on Lessons of Life
- What The? Woman Faces 15 Years for Cutting Wal-Mart Line
- Listen Up! Jury Box Getting Tuned Up by Recession
- CBO Finding: Dem Bill with Public Option Reduces Deficit
- Listen Up! Wave of Rapes During Military Crackdown Shakes Guinea
- Check It Out: How Not to Write About Africa
- On Second Thought: W. Va. Woman Recants in Torture Case
- Ain't No Sun-shyne: Rapper to Be Deported
- HAHAHAHA! MSNBC Thinks Black Reverends Look Alike
- Check It Out: Michelle Obama, Hula Hoop Champ
- Key Sens. May Tell Obama to Fall Back on Health Care
- Listen Up! Swine Flu Lives Longer Than Expected
- Weezy F. Baby May Spend Quiet Time Up North
- Losing Isiah: Thomas Salty with Magic Memoir
- Sexual Orientation Added to Hate Crime List, Awaits Obama's OK
- Listen Up! Olympic Concerns Raised by Rio Violence
- Better Than Sears: Annie Liebovitz Snaps First Family Portrait
- Listen Up! More Colleges Look to Gov't for Student Loans
- Check It Out: Kweli Says Kanye Is a Rascal
- H1N1 with a Bullet: Obama Declares Swine Flu National Emergency
- We Ain't Kin Folk: US Bans Kenyan Official
- Pass the Rock, Barack: NOW Prez Questions Obama's All-Male Pick-Up Games
- Reid Says Public Option Will Be Included in Bill
- Pew Study: Sistas Top Twitter
- Clippers Rookie Griffin Breaks Kneecap
- Bomb Attack Kills 8 US Troops in Afghanistan
- Listen Up! Toxic Chinese Drywall Creates Housing Risk
- Up to 20 Present for Homecoming Gang Rape
- Chiefs' Johnson Uses Gay Slurs, Is Totally Sorry For It
- Obama Gives First Black Senator Congressional Gold
- Obama Signs Hate Crime Bill Into Law
- Economy Grows For First Time in Year
- Listen Up! MLK's Daughter in Running for SCLC Presidency
- Interior Secretary Signs MLK Memorial Permit
- Check It Out: Obama Says Health Care Reform Will Help Small Biz
- Roy DeCarava, Famed Photographer, Dies at 89
- Oops! Lawmakers Under Investigation Revealed Through Leak
- Listen Up! The Afghan War Costs Serious Guap
- Regina Benjamin Confirmed as Surgeon General
- Asylum May Be Granted to Victims of Spousal Abuse
- Happy Halloween from Iran! Nuke Negotiations Sandbagged
- Check It Out: Karzai Declared Afghan Prez, Again
- Check It Out: Lawyer Wants South Africans Who Fought in Gaza
- Keflezighi, Tulu Take New York City Marathon
- The Fourth Horseman: TwitterPeek
- Good News for Detroit: Ford Racks Up $997M in Profit
- Select 10: The Ten Races Worth Watching This Election Day
- Some Dems Concerned Over Abortion Provision in Health Care Bill
- Check It Out: Cosby Says His Album Would Body 50's
- BREAKING: Bob McDonnell Takes Virginia Gubernatorial Race
- Police Find 4 Bodies in Rapist's Home; 10 Overall
- The Right Strikes Back: Hope Takes a Dirt Nap
- Obama's Brother: "What Happened in Virginia, Homie?"
- Check It Out: Rihanna Talks Breezy in Upcoming Interview
- More Bad News for Black Media? REPORTS: Essence.com Lays off Digital Staff
- Check It Out: 1 of 11 Bodies Found in Cleveland Rapist's Home ID'd
- Michelle Obama: First Iron Chef
- Ring 'Em Up (Sort Of): Italy Convicts 23 for CIA Renditions
- Listen Up! Obama Hates Freedom, Offers Rewards for School Overhauls
- 13 Dead, 30 Wounded in Tragedy at Ft. Hood
- Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in Danger
- Jobless Rate at 10%, Worst Since '83
- UPDATE: Orlando High Rise Gunman Arrested
- Is Dr. Gates Game-Changing?
- Some Senators Think House Health Bill Isn't Tight
- Ft. Hood Shooter, Imam's Relationship Investigated
- Chiefs Release Running Back Johnson
- Sammy Sosa Looks...Different
- DC Sniper to Be Executed Today, Lawyers Makes Final Plea
- Black Columbia Prof Slugs White Female Colleague
- Done Saving Journalists, Clinton Takes to Hill to Talk Health Care
- Check It Out: D.C. Sniper's Wife Speaks Out
- Dropped Call: White House Communications Director Steps Down
- Check It Out: Obama Honors Fallen at Fort Hood
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Battling Leukemia
- Chicago Woman Charged with Murder After Running Teen Over with Car
- Fort Hood: Who Messed Up?
- Condi's Comeback? Rice Rumored to Be Launching Consulting Firm
- BREAKING: Obama Announces December Job Creation Summit
- Check It Out: Rep. Steve King Calls Out Jarrett, "Gangster Government"
- BREAKING: Nidal Malik Hasan Charged
- Check It Out: Censoring the 'N' Word is Wack
- 9/11 Mastermind, Other Sets to Go on Trial in NYC
- Tennessee Vols Football Players Arrested for Armed Robbery
- So, About Gay Marriage in DC...
- Check It Out: You're Off-Base, Chairman Steele
- Obama To Chinese: Get On Your Human Rights (Please)!
- Charlie Last Name Wilson Says: Get Your Prostate Checked
- The Supreme Court Doesn't Care About Native American People
- Obama and Jintao: The Newest Planeteers
- Check It Out: Gucci Mane Levels Woman with Haymaker
- Body of Missing 5-Year-Old Girl Found
- Americans Split Over 9/11 Trials
- Mind Your Tweet Game, Kids
- Gitmo's Not Closing in January
- Remember That Time the 9/11 Plotters Never Ever Got Out of Jail?
- Black Women Need to Get Breast Cancer Screenings OFTEN
- File Under "Not Hilarious": Thinly-Veiled Death Threats
- The Senate Bill: Ready to Get Hated On!
- Caster Semenya to Keep World Championship Gold
- Obama to Iran, North Korea: HEY! Knock It Off!
- Check It Out: AG Holder Says He's Not Scared
- 5 Suspects Arraigned in Bronx Teen Shooting
- Dad Kills Son for "Inappropriate Contact" with Sister
- Oprah to Call It Quits in 2011
- Man Charged in Shaniya Davis Murder
- Congress Spazzes Out on The Obama and Friends
- Check It Out: Perry Changing NOLA, One %$#% At a Time
Blogs
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- No Wonder People Ignore Bill Collectors
- Lil Monkey Dolls: Let It Ride?
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- Analog Girl in a Digital World
- Why I'll Miss Tiny & Toya
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- Aaliyah Tribute/Asher Roth Recall
- Brother Kennedy: Good White Folk
- Tarantino Takes on Holocaust. How About Slavery?
- President Obama's Statement on the Passing of Ted Kennedy
- Checking Yourself at the Checkout Line
- Words to Govern By
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- Law & Disorder
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- Mary J. Blige Reminds Us Why She's Still "The One"
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- President Obama's Weekly Webcast Hits New Orleans
- Meet Brazil's Black Female (Green) Presidential Candidate
- Obama's Jiminy Cricket
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- BMW Disses Black People?
- Phoning It In
- White Skin, Black Masks
- What Ever Happened to Kid 'n Play?
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- VIDEO: Michelle Obama's Healthy Hoedown
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- Smile (Hollywood Says So)
- Note to Michael Steele: Black /= Charisma
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- Whitney's Extra, Extra, Super-Fresh Face
- A Response to Hair Haters
- Bring Me That Old Time Reporting
- Let's Do it Again...
- Roxanne's A Sham
- Smacking Children Not Your Own
- Why Still Stereotype Generation Y?
- Obama to Congress: "Just Give Me the Ball"
- PHOTO: The Element of Surprise
- Rihanna's Turn
- Context for Roxanne Shante
- The US Must Pull Out of Iraq and Afghanistan
- Domestic Abuse Among Black Folks
- Was Van Jones a 9/11 Truther?
- Why Won't The Old Folks Let You Be Great?
- Can White Liberals Keep Their Eye on the Prize?
- The Conversation: Do Black Men and Women Need to Have a Sit-Down?
- Memo to Black Men: Grow Up!
- Friendly Skies ... Sorta
- Ex-Cons Coming To A Town Near You
- Tyler Perry and His Colored Girls - Somebody Stop This Guy
- Obama's Back to School Speech Focuses on "You"
- A Worthwhile Conversation
- Cash Strapped Students Seal Their Eternal Damnation
- Caster Semenya in a Dress - Oh No!
- A Wise Blog Diva
- Will Obama Pull the Reform "Trigger"?
- Tyra Banks' Real (Boring) Hair
- PHOTO: Word, Son?
- Obama Schools Republican Members in Speech on Health Reform
- Kids Are Prejudice, Too
- Can We Be Broke On TV, Too?
- Reading List: The Sports Edition
- In Case You Missed It: Obama's Speech to Congress
- Obama Remembers 9/11
- 9/11 Testimonies - 8 Years Later
- Banks Won't Clean Up Their Mess Voluntarily
- Banks Go For (The) Broke
- Tyler Perry: The Right Choice
- Michelle Obama Takes Chicago 2016 Bid Overseas
- BET Could Redeem Itself With 'The Game'
- BET is the Bargain Basement of Television
- Kanye at the VMAs: When Keepin' It Real Goes Wrong
- Jay-Z the Reader
- Kanye's Disgrace
- Weed For The Financial Win?
- Mad Men: Pete Campbell's FUBU Moment
- What Birthers Believe: Republicans in a 9/12 America
- Philly Doesn't Need No Libraries
- The VMAs Should Have Been Lady Gaga's Time to Shine
- Whitney Was Saving All Her Love for Bobby
- Kanye West, Hennessy and Masochism
- No Home Training!
- Big Love
- The Goods At Goodwill
- Accepting Kanye's Apology
- Death in New Haven
- Obama to Meet with Colin Powell—Next at the Pentagon?
- Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat
- The Recession Is Over; It's Just That You Won't Have a Job.
- Obama, Star Wars and Socialism
- Is Now The Time For Revolution?
- Photo of the Week: Obama-Wan-Kenobi
- A Honey-Colored Carrie Bradshaw
- Segregated Busing
- What the ACORN Video Actually Reveals
- What Whitney Didn't Say
- Immigrants, Caribbean Literature, & Family
- The Problem with 'Good Hair'
- Black Folks Behaving Badly
- Clair Huxtable & Me
- Michelle Obama on Health Care
- 61st Primetime Emmys and the Lack of Black
- I'd Rather Laugh At Your Poll Numbers Than The Recession
- The Yes Men Take on Climate Change
- Oprah in a "Mad Men" World
- An Affair To Remember
- Obama Tells Letterman 'I Was Black Before the Election'
- Bill Clinton Up Close: Former Prez Dishes on Obama, Afghanistan and Climate Change
- I Don't Want To Learn From A Drug Dealer
- Obama Meets with African Heads of State
- Actress MacKenzie Phillips Admits She Had Sex With Father
- Fight To Keep Your Home
- Obama on Race at the UN
- Bitch is the New Black, the Movie
- U.S. Census Worker Hanged and Branded
- The Proof is in the Racist Pudding
- Serving Soup When Your Employment Status Sucks
- PHOTO OF THE DAY: The Obamas hit the G20
- How Kandi Burruss Keeps It Real
- Stephen Colbert Defines "Blackwashing" for Obama's Critics
- "Obama IS Cosby:" The Cosby Effect@25
- When Did Tijuana Become More Appealing Than Texas?
- The Screwed Generation
- Eric Brewer for Mayor
- Roman Polanski Can't Escape a Sex Offender Past
- Ebony Ain't What it Used to Be?
- Is Higher Education in America Worth Saving?
- Facebook Survey Asks Whether to Kill Obama
- Right-Wing Slinging About Obama Hits Author
- Debtors Revolt Against Banking Industry
- 10 Things You Could Learn from Bobby Brown
- The Public Option Is Dead, Long Live the Public Option
- Small World, Isn't It?
- Are Recessions Good For Your Health?
- What's Your Favorite Sitcom Episode?
- You Can't Tweet Wrapped Around a Telephone Pole
- Health Care Public Option: One Down, Three to Go
- Harry Potter Author Overlooked for Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Mr. President, Your Wife Is Awesome, So...
- Is President Obama Really Going to Grovel in Copenhagen?
- Don't Tax the Kool-Aid!
- Chris Rock's "Good Hair"
- Consumer Confidence Dips Just In Time For Christmas
- On Health Care, Rep. Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Neanderthals." Really?
- "Brick City" Offers More Real Talk Than Pep Talks
- Michael Moore Asks Us To Get Real
- A New Kind of Video Girl
- D.C. Latinos Share Culture With City
- Bromance Films and the Brothas - Not so Much!
- How Rio De Janeiro is like Barack Obama
- Ashley 'A. J.' Jewell: Death By Reality Fame?
- And Now A Word From Our VP
- The Tao of Poo
- Lee Daniels' Precious and the Blame Game
- Gutsy Grayson Fires Back on Health Care Reform
- Too Much Mo'Nique
- Do African-American Studies Departments Need to be Revamped?
- Obama, Afghanistan and the Politics of the Primrose Path
- Castrate Roman Polanski
- Begging To Live
- Justice Deferred: Tom Perez In at the Civil Rights Division
- First African–American Studies Program Launches in Turkey
- Have YouTube & The Economy Created Problems For Porn?
- Can a Reality Show Change Mike Vick's Image?
- A Recovering Magazine Junkie
- Bros Before ... Well, You Know the Deal
- Tyler Perry's Confession: Truth or Smart Business?
- No Obama Nursery Rhymes
- Disney's Very First B.A.P.
- On Chicago Violence, Eric Holder Top Cops Out
- Welcome to the Fun House: Obama Plays Ball With Cabinet
- Michelle Obama's Kinda, Sorta, A Little Bit White. And?
- Michelle Obama and Her Biracial Ancestors
- Rappers Hurt, Too
- Chris Rock vs. Regina Kimbell
- Pees and Queues
- Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
- Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - A Bit Too Soon?
- I Already Know 'Good Hair'
- Funny Man David Alan Grier
- The End of Celebrity Fashion?
- Don't Believe 'The Game' Hype
- This Week in Blackness: Barack Obama is the Worst. President. Ever.
- Bank of America: YouTube Rants Work On Us
- What Black Looks Like
- Mad Men's "I Have A Dream" Sequence
- Raymond vs. Raymond
- Mike Tyson on Oprah: Oy.
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month... for Men
- Reading List: The Intellectual Edition
- She Betta Work
- The Payback
- Minimizing The Minimal
- Emperor Jones and His Lazy Negroes
- Beat The (Black) Press: White House Launches E-Magazine
- The Definition of Authentic
- The 'Wait is Ova'
- In American Schools, Racial Learning Gap Persists
- Michelle Obama Knows Healthy Eating Isn't Just About Healthy Eating
- President Obama Gets His Latino Groove On
- Hard Times Spawning Bad Attitudes
- We're all minorities, says Glee
- French Vogue, White Models and Black Faces
- Be All That You Can Be...In A Bad Economy
- Gina Macauley on Dunbar Village
- Is Michelle Rhee Wrong?
- Louisisana Judge Refuses to Promote "Race-Mixing"
- Pressed for space
- More Work, More Stress, More Fears For Mothers
- Obama Gives a Pass on Medical Marijuana
- I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married
- Racial Nags and Other Weekend Fun
- Obama Says: Puff, Puff, Give a Pass
- Immigrant Women Face Harsher Plight With Domestic Violence
- No Coloreds Allowed? Book Party Turns Racist?
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner on Gossip Girl?
- Illegal Alien Halloween Costume - Not So Cool
- "The Wire"'s Omar Little Lives in New Jersey, Believes in Obama
- Woman Beats Man on "Tyra"
- Rihanna Straps on the Barbed Wire - Ouch!
- From NYU to EBT
- Malcolm X and His Sexual Past
- Credit Card Companies' New Target: Responsible Borrowers
- Black Men and Sexual Harassment
- Expressly Yours
- "Whitopia" and the Subliminal Joy of Target
- Hate Isn't a Crimal Justice Problem
- Tracy Morgan: Man on Fire
- Despite Hard Times, People Opt To Celebrate Halloween
- Can Blacks and White Progressives Live Together?
- Will The Economy Lead To More Balloon Boys?
- Atheist Campaign Starts Today in NYC
- Protestors Storm Bankers' Convention
- Obama Ball, Wall Street and the No Girls Allowed Club
- 'War in Afghanistan' Too Long, Too Heroic
- Forty Cities Not as Bad off as The Rest of the Country
- Too Much Sarah Palin?
- The Wedding of WHOSE Dreams?
- Michelle Obama Is Glamourous
- Real-Life Balloon Boy
- Buy A Patch, Run A Mile If You Want To Keep Your Job
- 'Rape in Concert' of Teen at Homecoming
- Why Does Chris Brown Want to ‘Transform’ Twitter Into a Therapy Session?
- Mappin' All Over The World
- If You Can't Wear It On Your Feet, Eat It On Your Plate
- Barack, Michelle and the Myth Of Marital Equality
- One of Your Friends Might Be a Blackface Barack Obama for Halloween. Should You Get Upset?
- 40 Years Old and Still Living With Moms
- Is The Recession Really Over?
- Character Counts
- First the Bill, Then the Work: Hate Crimes Legislation Passes
- 15 Jobs That Might Lead You To Baldness, Begging For A Prescription
- Sharpton Family Values
- Amazon and Wal-Mart Price War: Good or Bad For Book Consumers?
- Going on the Offensive
- Food Stamps and Black Pride
- Should Wall Street Channel Scrooge?
- My Cheap Best Friend
- Color Commentary After Dark
- Blacks Are Still Achieving Firsts?
- Less Money Is Not An Excuse To Trade Chicken For Chips Ahoy
- Postracial America Needs a Secretary of Postracial Affairs
- Rihanna Gives Love the Middle Finger
- Don't Call It A Comeback For Credit Cards?
- Anthony Sowell: Neighborhood Pervert
- Producing Precious
- Historical Tour Guide Forces Kids to Act like Slaves
- Unemployment Tops 10 Percent, Highest Since 1983
- Single Fathers = Glorified Babysitters
- How La-La Land Is Winning The Fight Against Homelessness
- Ft. Hood and Islamic Violence
- No Present Like The Time
- Big Bird Turns 40
- Comedian Katt Williams Was Guest in Home. So What's Up With the Crowbar?
- Why Aren't Our Teens Working Like They Used To?
- Veterans Need More Than Just A Holiday
- John Muhammad is Dead. American Violence is Not.
- Michelle Obama's dating advice sounds familiar....
- Publishing with the Stars
- For Job Seekers, The Past Is Prologue
- Hasan: Who Shot Ya?
- Illiteracy Begins and Ends at Home
- Is All of That New Family Time Souring Relations?
- Brown Paper Bag: Blame Black Hollywood
- Oprah to Robin Givens: "I apologize."
- College Education Is No Longer an Option ... Is It?
- Guess Who's Shopping More
- It'll Take More Than a Tantrum to Stop Gay Rights in D.C.
- Anthony Sowell's Victims: Drug Addicted, Expendable and Murdered
- Heather Ellis: Not That Innocent
- Calls For Job Growth Grow Louder
- Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind
- Beyoncé's Video Ho, er, Phone
- The Cost of Celebrity Isn't What It Used To Be
- Sarah Palin Says Newsweek Photo Is Sexist
- Reading List: The Poetry Edition
- Only the Super Negro Sells Movie Tix in Europe
- Should We Be More Afraid of Identity Theft?
- Delaying Cancer Screenings May Not be Best Option for Black Women
- Dems to Obama: Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
Multimedia
- Michael Jackson's Birthday Bash
- The Confab -- Sept. 4, 2009
- The Confab -- Sept. 11, 2009
- Cosby Cameos
- Books on The Root -- Sept. 18, 2009
- The Confab -- Sept. 25, 2009
- The Confab -- Oct. 2, 2009
- The Confab -- Oct. 9, 2009
- The Confab -- Oct. 19, 2009
- I Heart Hillman: A Visual History of HBCUs On-Screen
- The Confab -- Oct. 23, 2009
- A Decade of Black Genius
- The Confab -- Oct. 30, 2009
- The Root Rewrites the Western Canon
- 44 Moments Celebrating the 44th President
- Actin' Up
- Happy 35th Birthday, Black Book!
- Who Ever Said Jazz Had To Be Drab?
- The Confab -- Nov. 13, 2009
- Color Clash?
- The Art of a Yoruba Trickster
- Mr. Obama's Sweet Potato Pie
