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POTUS to Hit (Maybe Racist, Maybe Backward) World Cup
President Obama has accepted an invitation to the opening ceremony of the first World Cup to be held on the African Continent, according to the head of FIFA, the world soccer federation. From ESPN: President Obama, whose late father was Kenyan, has indicated he will attend the event on June 11 next year when the…
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Michelle Obama's Vegetable Stand–Now with Health Care Reform!
The three part opening act of Michelle Obama’s White House Kitchen Garden came to a close this Tuesday as the same crop of 5th graders from Washington’s Bancroft Elementary School, who had broken ground in March and planted seeds in April, came to the South Lawn once more for an end of year “Harvest Party.”…
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Who's Afraid of Bibi?
Before Rep. Donna Edwards, of Maryland’s Fourth Congressional district, traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories for the first time in May, she hadn’t thought much about minorities in the Jewish state: “As an African-American woman, I really didn’t have a perception of a significant minority population in Israel, and there is,” she told the…
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Is the Holocaust Museum Shooter One of Many?
The shooting today in Washington at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum turned from terror to murder when 39-year-old security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, one of the two individuals shot this afternoon, died at a local hospital. Details from the scene are still unclear, but the elderly man who opened fire at the crowded memorial has…
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Is Sotomayor Liberal Enough?
Ex-Republican Christopher Buckley writes in his satirical novel, Supreme Courtship, that “nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.” This has certainly been true in the days since President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the highest legal office in the land. Much of…
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Graduate and Get a Real J-O-B?
At the University of Pennsylvania’s annual career fair, held on Sept. 16, 2008, things seemed pretty normal; blue-chip companies like Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Barclays and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had come to woo a bumper crop of undergraduates from the prestigious Wharton School. As business cards flashed, a tremor went through the…
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Obama Delivers "Real Talk" on Islam at Cairo University
President Barack Obama’s major speech in Cairo, Egypt lived up to the hype; not that, as the president said at the city’s Al-Azhar University, “a single speech can eradicate years of mistrust,” but that Obama is uniquely comfortable speaking plainly in the most uncomfortable of situations. And here—in a Muslim country not yet fully democratic,…
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Obama Took On Jeremiah Wright—But So What?
NEWSWEEK alumnus Richard Wolffe flags his juicy new book from the campaign trail: “Renegade: The Making of a President,” with an excerpt at the DAILY BEAST. He recounts a secret meeting in Chicago with the president’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, at the height of the furor surrounding a series of sermons Wright delivered at…
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Kanye, Prince or Barack: Who's Head Blipster in Chief?
THE ROOT’s recent article on “The Rise of The Black Hipster” certainly sparked a lively conversation on the web. My piece, which reported on the cultural appropriation of white hipster style by young black folks, and the similar theft of black street style by white folks, was more of a description than an argument. Walking…
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White House Art That's Come and Gone
Last week, the WALL STREET JOURNAL ran a great piece about how the Obama family is changing the visual art on the walls of the White House. Over time, the Reagans, Clintons and both Bush White Houses have added to the expansive permanent collection of two- and three-dimensional art—and now the Obamas are looking to…
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