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Zadie Smith Speaks Obama
Like most corporate Negroes, The Buzz is a pro at code-switching, been perfecting the artform since birth. So it isn’t exactly news to us that our new President has mastered the art, as our homie Jack Shafer recounts in fascinating detail in Slate. I a speech reprinted in the New York Review of Books, the…
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Broke Hearts
Romance needn’t be the latest casualty of the recession. The Buzz was disappointed to hear the NPR report by Sam Fullwood III that flower sales are down at one of our favorite U Street shops. But take heart: Over at AfroBella, The Root contributor Natalie McNeal a.k.a. The Frugalista, gives these pointers on how to…
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He's Just Not That Into It
On a day when President Barack Obama spoke in Springfield, Illinois and Washington, D.C. about Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, shared sacrifice, and the importance of national unity, noting that history teaches us, “There are certain things we can only do together,” Sen. Judd Gregg, Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce, and the third Republican slated to…
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The Next Generation of Black Medical Genius
In part of a regular conversations series for The Root on the new black visionaries, famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, has a conversation with his young protege, Dr. James Frazier. The colleagues at Johns Hopkins Medical Center discuss everything from what every child should know, to how to pay it forward to why Carson rarely…
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Juan Williams' Hot Water
The Buzz is really starting to worry about Fox News commentator and NPR analyst Juan Williams. As if his unfounded criticism of Gwen Ifill’s Obama book last fall weren’t bad enough, he shocked us again with his comments on Faux News about Our Belle Michelle: “Michelle Obama, you know, she’s got this Stokely Carmichael in a…
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Salma Hayek's Got Milk
While on a humanitarian mission to Sierra Leone, the actress Salma Hayek met a baby whose mother was unable to breastfeed. So Hayek, who is still nursing her own daughter, decided to breastfeed the child, a tender moment that was of course caught on tape. Was this a publicity stunt designed to top Madonna and Angelina,…
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Too Much Information
Time was, a player had to worry about getting her spot blown up because of three-way calling. Or, maybe sending a love note to the wrong email address. And we won’t even get into the many love games and dilemmas that arise on Facebook. Now, the geniuses at Google have come up with a new “service” called…
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Help a Mommy Out
If you were worried about the California mother of 14, Nadya Suleman, making ends meet, worry no more. Suleman has launched her own website where her “fans” can make donations and leave comments for her and the octuplets. This was a good move on her part for a number of reasons. First, she doesn’t have…
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The End of Black History Month (?)
A multicultural swirl of faces came to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for The Root Inaugural Ball to fete the arrival of our new president. The iconic setting and diverse crowd of revelers begged the question: Is it time to end the segregation of teaching history? Watch as The Root correspondents Helena Andrews…
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If You Knew Suze Like We Know Suze
“Tell me what I need to know,” people often say to me. “Here is what you need to know,” I answer. —Suze Orman, The Road to Wealth How a bottle-blond former waitress and self-described “55-year-old virgin” with a taste for the good life became the financial messiah for millions of Americans might be a fun…
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