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  • Aaliyah Tribute/Asher Roth Recall

    Aaliyah, forgive me in advance for defiling the anniversary of your death. Back in your day, there were honorable collabos — Timbaland, Missy Elliot and DMX. Well, we’ll forgive you that one because the song was hot! But, seriously, what happened to the days of quality vocals and dynamic beats? All we have now are…

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  • Analog Girl in a Digital World

    ABOUT SAARET E. YOSEPH I grew up on Saved by the Bell and, as a kid, I had a hard time believing that I didn’t go to Bayside High with Zack and co. To this day, I have a habit of watching the same old reruns on T.V. They always trump the tired, alcohol-fueled debauchery…

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  • Prince's Protégées: Then and Now

    Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Back in the day, Prince wrapped himself in that whole fabulously mysterious Purple Majesty thing. If you came of age in the ‘80s, chances are that you wanted, above anything, to be a part of…

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  • What Being 'Black in America' Really Means

    Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Attendees arrive at The Root and Black Web 2.0’s “Black in America 2” event. Young, black academics and professionals in the Washington area came out to Bus Boys and Poets to watch the program and participate…

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  • The White House Beerfest Gallery

    Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley. The White House Rose Garden. A light drink and snacks on the White House Rose Garden. The beer selections (from left to right) of Sgt. James…

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  • Why Can’t Ads Get Black Women Right?

    “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring…

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  • The Root and Black Web 2.0 Review 'Black in America 2'

    Are we living in a post-racial America? What does being black in America mean today? Join The Root staff and readers as we screen CNN’s “Black in America 2” and host an interactive panel discussion where 20-something professionals in politics, law and medicine respond to your questions and reactions from the show. The Root and…

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  • What Ever Happened to The Wiz?

    In its prime, The Wiz couldn’t be beat. Throughout its four-year run on Broadway, the hit 1975 musical brought flavor and funk to Oz like never before, introducing theatergoers to a quirky gang of vagabonds with a style and rhythm all their own.  This was not Judy Garland’s Emerald City.  On stage, it had a darker hue and a…

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  • The Legacy of Loving

    Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” The Lovings fell in love as teens and were married for nine years before their union was legally recognized. But in the couple’s fight against anti-miscegenation statutes, law was secondary to love. Two years before…

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  • King Casting Call

    Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” In our minds, the quintessential King reprisal came by way of veteran actor Jeffrey Wright in the film Boycott. Wright’s hue might be off. But The Root is above discrimination based on color, class or creed. There’s no doubting this…

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