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What Should Be on Obama's Reading List
As the president and his economic advisers try to pull the country out of its financial morass, this damning account (one of our Facebook fan favorites) of how things went south in the first place might help keep them from making the same mistakes again … or is it too late for that? Captions by…
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Images of 'The Rally to Restore Sanity'
Comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart perform at “The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” on the National Mall. Nice pants, Mr. Colbert! The stage for the “Restore Sanity and/or Fear” rally. Black Thought of the Roots performs. The Roots were the “house band” for the event. John Legend, one of the 2010 honorees of…
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Shopping for the First Lady
Thakoon is a hot new designer who has become a Michelle Obama favorite. On her first official European visit, she wore a Thakoon richly printed ensemble to a NATO meeting in 2009 with French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Captions by Harriette Cole Thakoon did not disappoint for Spring/Summer 2011. Dreamy ethereal…
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Images of the Hottest CBC Weekend Parties
From left: Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Suzanne Fuller (Global Novations), Patrice Webb (Heineken), Kheri Tillman (Heineken USA), Dolf van den Brink (CEO, Heineken USA) and Sylvia van den Brink. District of Columbia Mayor-Elect Vincent Gray, still celebrating his victory, poses at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation gala dinner with Cheryl Parker Rose, adviser to House…
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Images of a Red Carpet Affair With IMPACT in D.C.
The IMPACT Leadership Team: Joe Briggs, Angela Rye (a panelist at The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female event), Semhar Araia (an honoree of 2009’s The Root 100), Adria Crutchfield, Ryan Scott and David Johns. Nicole Venable of the Bockorny Group and Joel Dreyfuss, managing editor of The Root. From left: Dr. Djinge Lindsay-Strickland, Edgar Burch…
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New Fall TV Shows, Many Familiar Black Faces
Undercovers (NBC), Wednesdays, 8 p.m. EST Kodjoe plays CIA agent/catering entrepreneur Steven Bloom in this action-spy series. He started as a model, but many will remember him as heartthrob Damon Carter on Showtime’s Soul Food TV series. Since then, he’s had movie roles in Madea’s Family Reunion (2006), The Gospel (2005) and Brown Sugar (2002).…
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The Root Interview: John Legend
It’s been nearly two years since John Legend released his last album, Evolver, and performed his hopeful song, “If You’re Out There” at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Since then he’s been hard at work with the Roots on a soon-to-be-released album, Wake Up! The socially conscious album is a compilation of covers from the…
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Digging for History in an Ancient 'Nation of Black People'
In a recent trip to Egypt, Jonathan Pourzal volunteered with the South Asasif Conservation project. Take a look at a few photos of his experience and then read more about it as he excavates Egypt’s black history and chases the past in the land of the Kemites. The second ASA Restoration Project mission team of…
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The Top Black Labor Union Leaders
A. Philip Randolph Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters In 1925 A. Philip Randolph became the leader of the black service staff of the Pullman railroad cars. It was the first African-American labor union. In 1941 Randolph threatened to bring 100,000 black job seekers to Washington, D.C. In response, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order…
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What Will Happen to Juneteenth?
“So how do you celebrate Juneteenth?” I asked my Twitter friends a few weeks ago. After a dead-tweet silence, I retweeted myself for emphasis. Even then, just a handful of my 300 or so Twitter friends responded with a few half-baked answers. “Go to some crappy festival,” one Californian said. “I celebrate by doing nothing,”…
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