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Treme Recap: 'Accentuate the Positive'
Season 2 of HBO’s original series Treme opened 14 months into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as New Orleans still stumbles to find its footing. The specter of the enormous loss and devastation of one of this country’s major disasters takes its place front and center, a lead character in this ensemble cast. This week…
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Where Is Our Jon Stewart?
Andrea King Collier is a blogger for The Root. Last night I tuned into “The Daily Show” and got a little mad. www.thedailyshow.com There is no doubt that Jon Stewart and his team of writers are not shy about going right for the jugular when it comes to things that matter, like health care, or…
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Health Care Public Option: One Down, Three to Go
Andrea King Collier is a blogger for The Root. Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee said no to a version of the public option portion of health care reform. News headlines declared the vote a surprise KO punch to the public option. Dig a little deeper and find this vote was only a surprise to those…
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Letter From Lansing
Michigan is once again one of the crucial states that could determine the outcome of this election. There will be a lot of strategizing between now and November. We want answers to our battered economy and our record foreclosure rate. We want to know about health care and the survival of the middle class. At…
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Keeping Him Healthy
Health news is almost always depressing when it comes to people of color, especially our black men. Our husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and friends are at least 50 percent more likely to die of a heart attack, stroke, complications from diabetes and cancer than their white counterparts. These numbers represent real men, and it just…
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