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VIDEO: The Root Interview: Ntozake Shange
In this exclusive interview with The Root’s contributing editor Harriette Cole, playwright-poet-novelist Ntozake Shange talks about the strokes that almost took her life, the new novel she wrote with her sister and what she told Tyler Perry when he told her he wanted to adapt her Tony Award-winning choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered…
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AUDIO: Racist Voice Mail Illustrates Debt-Collection Abuse
The Root obtained the audio clip below from a source at the National Association for Consumer Advocates, a group that helped Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) craft the End Debt Collector Abuse Act (EDCAA) bill. Though the clip depicts the behavior of just one California debt collector, it’s the kind of virulent harassment that has become…
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The Root Recap: Undercovers and Detroit 1-8-7
Underwritten? I want to like Undercovers, NBC TV’s highly hyped new series; I really do. I can get behind a show that features an international, multilingual, gourmet-cooking-full-time-but-spying-on-the-side, happily married couple who just happen to be black. But while I really, really appreciate the effort — and the eye candy — Undercovers, which debuted Wednesday night,…
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The Root Recap: The Event
There’s a whole lot of fast-forwarding and rewinding in the pilot episode of The Event, which aired last night, yanking the viewer from present to past, from now to then, from the nice young guy who’s just trying to propose to his girlfriend to the same nice young guy a few months later, who’s just…
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Glenn Beck's Followers Speak Out on Faith, MLK and More
Ever wonder what is going on inside the heads of Glenn Beck’s followers? The Root’s staff writer Cord Jefferson and a Slate V video crew caught up with some of them at the Restoring Honor rally on Aug. 28 in Washington, D.C. They opened up about why they were there and what they think is happening in…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
