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Sasha and Malia: Obama's Best Legacy
(The Root) — Thankfully, it’s no secret that Barack Obama is a good father. More than other presidents in my recent memory, Obama — though never adopting the title “dad in chief” as his wife, Michelle, did with “mom in chief” — has become the poster child for working dads the world over. The proof,…
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Why Do I Keep Reading These Sad Single-Lady Headlines?
The Root contributing editor Helena Andrews, writing at xoJane, asks herself why she can’t seem to stop consuming the depressing news about the fate of the unmarried. “Over a lifetime, unmarried women can pay as much as a million dollars more than their married counterparts for healthcare, taxes, and more,” says the Atlantic, which is…
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100 Years of Sisterhood, Captured in a Night
(The Root) — I wasn’t entirely sure it would be worth all the fuss. It was a half hour before midnight on Sunday, and a surprise fog had dimmed the neighborhood’s streetlights to spooky. Recovering on the couch after a hard day of being out seemed like the smart thing to do. Did we really…
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The Nice — and Black — Guy Gets the Girl
(The Root) — I’m really proud of Lena Dunham. No, we’re not friends in real life, and, no, we don’t even follow each other on Twitter. But if one can feel a certain delight, then disappointment, empathy and finally pride in a stranger’s work, then that’s exactly how I feel about the 26-year-old writer-director-actress as…
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'Deception' vs. 'Scandal' on Race
(The Root) — The comparisons were inevitable and obvious. NBC’s newest murder mystery, Deception, starring Meagan Good, looks a lot like ABC’s Revenge, a show that has chronicled the lifestyles of the rich and homicidal since last season. Nearly every mention of Deception, which premiered Monday night, is sure to cite the new show’s clear…
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Fantasia's False Equivalency
(The Root) — Logic and rhetoric aren’t for everyone, especially celebrities. R&B singer and former reality-TV star Fantasia Barrino proved as much earlier this week when she first made an anti-gay statement via Instagram and then tried to recant that same statement, claiming it was taken out of context. On Sunday, Dec. 30, the “Baby…
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Hudlin: 'Django' Has Clear Morals
(The Root) — Django Unchained sounds like a pretty hard sell. Django (Jamie Foxx), a black slave-turned-superhero, slays every racist dragon in his gun-smoked path? But veteran writer-producer Reginald Hudlin (House Party, The Bernie Mac Show, Boomerang) didn’t so much as blink when his good friend, writer-director Quentin Tarantino, asked him to help bring Django’s…
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15 Black Pop-Culture Highlights of 2012
Helena Andrews is a contributing editor at The Root and author of Bitch Is the New Black, a memoir in essays. Follow her on Twitter.
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Serena Still Reduced to the Sum of Her Parts
(The Root) — It’s ridiculous that we still have to explain this. That with a black woman in the White House, another starring in the TV show everyone’s talking about and another who created said show — plus scores more breaking barriers in politics, business and sports — we still have to explain why certain…
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Halle's Drama and Why Being Cordial Is Key
(The Root) — Apparently even celebrities have trouble navigating that awkward and unavoidable moment when your ex and your next are in the same place at the same damn time. From Halle Berry to Katy Perry, the sticky situation can call for either the police or paparazzi, depending on the temperature of the adults involved.…
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