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  • Digging Kunta Kinte

    Watching [The Root’s Editor-in-Chief] Henry Louis Gates Jr. delve into the ancestry of African Americans on PBS recently got me thinking about Alex Haley’s Roots, the book that started it all. Both the book and the phenomenally successful mini-series based on it came out during the 1976-77 academic year when I was a Nieman Fellow…

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  • The McCain Option? Pul-eeze.

    Memo to William Jelani Cobb.Re: Your proposal that “if Hillary Clinton receives the Democratic Party nomination, African Americans should consider voting for John McCain.”Knee-grow,  pul-eeeze!  Your column on The Root ranks as the most ridiculous political idea any Negro has put forth my since my brother-in-law decided to support Clarence Thomas on the grounds that,…

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