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  • Obama's Cradle to Career

    Obama plans to deliver his speech on education reform today.  And the halls of public education are on fire with excitement.  Besides the estimated $128 billion allotted for education this year, one of Obama’s strategies is to pay teachers based on performance.  This is a mixed-bag propostion.  Some believe teachers shouldn’t be thrown a bone…

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  • Phylicia Rashad Cast as Mother to White Family

    Phylicia Rashad is returning to Broadway.   She will star as the matriarch in Tracy Lett’s award-winning August:  Osage County.   August took Broadway by storm last year with five Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize.  August is a three-hour drama about a hyper-dysfunctional white family living in the heart of Oklahoma.  From pill-popping, verbal abuse, and…

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  • White Scholars and Black Studies

    Dawn Turner Trice of the Los Angeles Times penned a timeley piece today about white scholars in Black Studies programs.  Trice highlights how more and more students are walking into their Black Militancy 101 courses and finding a white professor at the helm.   I don’t know about you, but while I was a graddie…

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  • Are Conservatives Prone to Porn?

    As the GOP crumbles here’s another kick in the conservative knee:  porn addiction.  That’s right, baby.  Republicans suffer from a psychosis of the libido.  In an interview with CNN Kiran Chetry pastor and author David Erik Jones confessed that conservatives struggle with their sexual nature due to social stigma and the lack of sexual outlet…

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  • Stop Attacking Black People!

    I only have a few words for the Seattle incident, you know, where the 15 year-old was viciously slammed in a jail cell:  Enough is fricking enough.  My grand-uncle was lynched for refusing to let a Sheriff-approved white man enter his home to search for an alleged thief.   Just last week a good friend was…

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  • Police Who Taser Children

    Last September a Los Angeles police officer used his Taser to subdue an unruly and autistic 12 year old.  When Officer Vincent Arias walked into the Hawthorne California middle school the 5’7” boy was violently assaulting a security guard.  After a bout of kicking and cursing, the student decided to flee through an exit door…

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  • Rihanna and Chris – Back Together

    So it looks like Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together.  A source tells People Magazine that the loving couple was seen together at Sean Combs’ mansion.  So, after the world was throwing daggers at Chris Brown for being a horrid, classic abusive black man, little Mz Rihanna was somewhere in Guyana, in between healing…

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  • Watermelons at the White House

    So it’s Friday.  I’m in the chill mode as I wait to see if travel plans to Cleveland pan out.  My play Wilberforce is running at Cleveland State University and I’m hoping to get there.  Excuse me as I digress in shameless self-promotion, but if you’re in Cleveland go and check it out.  Anyway, it’s…

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  • Why Do Black Men Wear Dresses?

    Hollywood loves Black men, especially when they throw on a dress.  From Flip Wilson to Eddie Murphy to Jamie Foxx to Martin Lawrence to Tyler Perry, black entertainers have a history of pulling off the slacks and pulling up the pantyhose.  Over the last few weeks several of my intelligent, socially-savvy male friends have called…

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  • Blacks Refuse to Support the Arts

    This is a challenge!  I challenge every reader of TheRoot to go out and support the arts this week.  I challenge you to see a film at your nearby arthouse cinema, go to a gallery, search the papers for a play, and/or go to the symphony or museum.  And take people with you.  Find out…

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