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Thanks to CNN and Soledad O'Brien maybe black men will begin to discuss the state of our mental and emotional well-being.
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The Senate is basically asking Sotomayor to relinquish her "ethnic card", or else.
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The Free Republic posted racist attacks about 11 year old Malia Obama. The Free Republic should be shut down. Period.
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Some say there's a fine line between pimp and record exec, but Joe Jackson's desire to put his grieving grandkids on tour and deem them the Jackson 3 is the biggest display of pimping in quite some time.
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Digging up graves at Burr Oak Cemetery is certainly horrifying news for the families of the deceased. But these four shameless mofos obviously thought, well, the dead are dead and what's the big deal.
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Come on, kicking black kids out of the pool? The Valley Swim Club should be set on fire and burned down. What? Plagues were once obliterated by fire. Why not now?
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A recent study suggests black students worker harder when they have white roomies. Ridiculous or True?
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I certainly have mixed feelings about Michael, but I have to be honest: the Man in the Mirror helped shape my young life.
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Michael Jackson was a musical genius, no doubt, but isn't the excessive playing of his music driving you crazy?
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There's something troubling about celebrating the birth of a country with people who can't agree on anything. Religion, marriage, the effects of bad eating, meaningless apologies for slavery.
Now that Obama's president does this Fourth have special value?
TOP OF THE TREE
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Oprah's Blackest Moments
by The Root ContributorsOprah Winfrey recently announced plans for retirement in 2011. The talk show host may have a stronghold on white, suburban housewives, but The Root contributors remember moments when Oprah kept it real—black.
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What Kobe, LeBron and Dwyane Owe Spencer Haywood
by Martin JohnsonForty years ago, Haywood became the first player to leave college early and go to the pros—proving that young players got game, too.
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Shaniya's Shame
by Malika Saada SaarThe murder of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis highlights a disturbing and growing trend in the U.S.: the trafficking of young girls into sexual slavery.
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Storming the Court?
by Sherrilyn A. IfillWhen it comes to appointing federal judges, President Obama shouldn’t try to play center. Centrist judges will not balance judges on the right. Left balances right.
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The (Not So) New World Order
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black.
Maybe Your Great-Grandmother Really Was Cherokee
A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian traces black-Native American relations from the 1500s to the present.
Is the USDA Still the Last Plantation?
During the Bush administration, 13,999 racial discrimination cases were swept under the rug at the Agriculture Department. What will Secretary Tom Vilsack do about it?
Rakim's Back
Def Jam is 25. "Rapper’s Delight" is 30. And Rakim is 41. But with his latest album, The Seventh Seal, hip-hop heads can remember the best of the golden age.
Color-Struck Around The Globe
Sammy Sosa’s new vampire complexion is a jarring reminder that, from the Dominican Republic to Dakar to New Delhi, white is still right, yellow is still mellow and if you’re black, get back.









