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Black Celebrity Halloween Costumes 2010
Lauren is a former Deputy Editor of The Root. Shaquille O’Neal, with Hoops, his reality-star girlfriend, dressed as a character he calls Shaqueeta. Even better than seeing Shaq in a dress is seeing him lip-sync to Beyoncé while wearing a dress. He posted a video of his performance on Twitter over the weekend. Janet Jackson…
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Treasured Black Books Adapted for Film
Lauren is a former Deputy Editor of The Root. Ntozake Shange’s work was first staged in 1975 in San Francisco. Two years later, the choreopoem was published as a book, creating countless fans of Shange’s work. Tyler Perry would not have been most For Colored Girls fans’ first choice as writer and director of a…
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What Has Obama Done for Women?
Democrats usually have women voters in the bag. In the 2006 midterm elections, exit polls showed that women voters favored Democrats overall by 12 percentage points. In 2008 Barack Obama got 56 percent of the female vote in the general election. But as Nov. 2 looms, it’s become obvious to Democrats that their once comfortable…
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Rhode Island Dem Tells Obama to 'Shove It'
You don’t come to Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio’s state, schedule appearances with him and refuse to endorse him! Caprio made this plain when he told a local radio station early Monday that Barack Obama, who has declined to endorse anyone in the Rhode Island governor’s race, “can take his endorsement and really…
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Kanye West's 'Runaway' Imagination
Kanye West’s upcoming album is called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and over the weekend he revealed part of that fantasy to the world with the feature-length video for his song “Runaway.” West stars in and directs the video, which features model Selita Ebanks as a nearly nude, feather-clad phoenix who falls to earth and…
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Should Parents Go to Jail for Missing Parent-Teacher Meetings?
It caused a ruckus when police in localities across the country started arresting parents for their children’s truancy, but what about getting sent to jail for missing a parent-teacher conference? Detroit prosecutor Kym Worthy presented a proposal to the City Council last week that would require parents to spend three days in jail if they…
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Study: PBS Is Very White and Very Male
PBS pledges to show America “in all its diversity,” so imagine FAIR’s surprise when the organization’s three-month study of two of the station’s news shows, Need to Know and PBS NewsHour, proved that the shows’ guests were overwhelmingly white and male. On NewsHour, women and people of color appear more often as random people being…
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Conflicting Accounts in Pace Football Player Shooting
Danroy Henry, a 20-year-old junior on Pace University’s football team, was shot and killed by police Sunday outside of a Thornwood, N.Y., restaurant. Conflicting accounts from police and witnesses, including Henry’s friend Brandon Cox, who was in the car with Henry when he was shot, have deepened the controversy surrounding the young man’s death. Police…
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New Book Casts Doubt on Cause of Obama's Dad's Death
A new expansive biography of Barack Obama and his family raises questions about the death of the president’s father in Kenya in 1982. Although the official cause of Barack Obama Sr.’s death was a drunk-driving accident, some family members interviewed in Peter Firstbrook’s The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family believe that he…
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Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Defend Their O'Reilly Beef
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar made headlines when they stomped off of the set of The View last week during a heated conversation with Bill O’Reilly about the “Ground Zero” mosque. Yesterday the show had a live taping for the first time since the incident. During the show, Barbara Walters expressed displeasure that her co-hosts…
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