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Most Americans Don't Know Obama Cut Taxes
Less than one in 10 respondents in a recent New York Times poll were aware that their taxes had been cut by the Obama administration. Even worse: A third of the people polled thought their taxes had gone up. In truth, taxes were cut for 95 percent of working Americans — and a conscious decision…
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Kanye West's Racy Album Cover Banned?
It’s such a special treat to follow Kanye West on Twitter. Yesterday he posted a Twitpic of the cover art for his upcoming album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, along with the words “Banned in the USA!!!” In a series of tweets that followed, West explained that the cover image, which features a naked female…
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Michelle Obama Accused of Electioneering
You can’t win for losing. Ask Michelle Obama, who is traveling down the campaign trail for the first time since 2008 — that’s how serious these midterm elections are, folks — to help some Democratic candidates. A conservative watchdog group is now on her case for what it says is electioneering after she reportedly encouraged…
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Marc Lamont Hill Sues Philly Police Officer
Popular professor and television news commentator Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is keeping mum about a federal civil rights lawsuit he filed recently against a Philadelphia police officer. In the suit, Hill claims that during a routine traffic stop, Officer Richard Decoatesworth, who is not black, dragged him out of his vehicle, went through his pockets,…
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Tyra Sued Over Teen Sex Addict Show
No amount of smizing is going to charm this mother into forgiving Tyra Banks. Beverly McClendon, whose 15-year-old daughter appeared on an episode of Banks’ talk show as a “self-proclaimed sex addict,” is suing the television personality because she said she did not give consent. McClendon said the show’s producers arranged for her daughter to…
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Police Move to Stop Citizens From Videotaping Them
The Rodney King beating. The Oscar Grant slaying. What do these events have in common? They were videotaped. When you take huge, racially polarizing stories such as these into account, it’s pretty obvious why police officers don’t want to be taped when they make arrests. But as more and more cell phones and digital cameras…
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Black and Latino Single Moms Have Median Wealth of Zero
We talk about poverty in our community quite a bit, but what about the accumulation of wealth — the balance between assets and debt? In some groups, according to one NYU study, it’s not being accumulated at all — at least that’s the case for single mothers. Researchers from NYU’s Women of Color Policy Network…
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GALLERY: Looking Back on the Million Man March
Lauren is a former Deputy Editor of The Root. The final attendance count of the event is still under dispute. The National Park Service estimated attendance at 400,000, which officials later admitted was low. Nation of Islam organizers maintained that they reached their million-man goal. No matter the final number, the photos don’t lie —…
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Now at Bat for D.C.'s Students: Kaya Henderson
By Lauren Williams Kaya Henderson, the interim chancellor of D.C. Public Schools (DCPS), has inherited a complex legacy from Michelle Rhee, who resigned her post Oct. 13. Nationally, Rhee’s sweeping changes to schools in the nation’s capital made her a leader in the education-reform movement. Locally, many of those reforms, particularly performance-based teacher firings — 165…
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Jackson Brother Mad About Oprah Winfrey Interview
Randy Jackson is none too pleased that Oprah Winfrey conducted an interview at his parents’ home, both complaining about and confirming the interview, which had only been rumored, on Twitter recently. Jackson, who never said specifically that his parents were interviewed, although that is the rumor, wrote that he “knows how Oprah feels about [his]…
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