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Living While Obama: Super Bowl Taping
First lady Michelle Obama shows NFL Play 60 “super kid” James Gale, 11, historical photos from previous administrations on display in the Booksellers area of the White House during a National Football League taping on Jan. 30. At right is James’ mother, Lisa Gale. The taping will air during the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.
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Living While Obama: Corcoran Museum Visit
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia visit the Corcoran Gallery of Art on Jan. 29, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
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Images of MLK, the Man
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lying in a hospital bed after having been stabbed in a Harlem, N.Y., department store in 1958. King at the airport with his wife, Coretta, and children, Yolanda and Martin III, after being freed from prison, Oct. 27, 1960, in Chamblee, Ga. Here, King is shown in 1960 pulling up…
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Admin Test Slideshow
Cool-Breeze Air Conditioning supervisor Mike Trent (left) and recently hired Mike Turner install an air conditioner in a Miami Beach hotel on Jan. 6, 2012. The most recent jobs report indicated that 200,000 jobs were created in December, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent. Former Boyz II Men member Michael McCary (second from…
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The Big Picture: The News in Photos
Cool-Breeze Air Conditioning supervisor Mike Trent (left) and recently hired Mike Turner install an air conditioner in a Miami Beach hotel on Jan. 6, 2012. The most recent jobs report indicated that 200,000 jobs were created in December, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent. Former Boyz II Men member Michael McCary (second from…
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Scenes From America's Gullah Culture
The Gullah people, sometimes known as Geechee, are a group of descendants of African people in enclaves scattered around Georgia and South Carolina and into Florida around the coastal plains, and in sea-island towns such as Bluffton, Daufuskie and Hilton Head. This unique subpopulation of African Americans has retained the customs, traditions and mores of…
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The Root and Impact's CBC Party: Photos
On Thursday, Sept. 22, The Root and Impact hosted a party at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference. Guests mingled downstairs, while upstairs the Corcoran offered a sneak peek at the “30 Americans” exhibit, which opens Oct. 1. Managing Editor of The Root Joel Dreyfuss,…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
