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The Tonight Show… with President Obama
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” President Obama chose The Tonight Show to get serious about the AIG bonuses, the economy and to defend Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. But the POTUS and Jay Leno were still able to share a few laughs… You…
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Pregnancy Yoga Poses
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” This pose helps to relieve lower back pain and creates flexibility in the spine. Begin on all fours, with a flat back, wrists underneath shoulders and knees underneath hips. Exhale to push the floor away…
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The A-Word Reclaimed
The word “Arab” is used way too liberally in the American vernacular. Since 9/11 and the advent of our six-year war, the term has become a mutilated mainstay in public debate—a common appropriation, the de facto cultural label for all things Islamic, terrorist-related or alien. During the last presidential election John McCain supporters used the…
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Fashion Week a la Michelle
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Michelle’s style sneaks up on you because underneath it all the first lady has a simple sartorial equation: Mix the practical with panache. This belted coat from Andy & Debb will keep her warm and…
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Post It! A New Civil Rights Stamp Collection
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Ella Baker (1903-1986) organized northern support for the Montgomery bus boycott, and in 1957 became acting director of Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Ruby Hurley (1909-1980) aided in all of the major school desegregation cases of the…
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The NAACP at 100 — A Photo Retrospective
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Joel Elias Spingarn, one of the NAACP’s founders and second president. Spingarn was also one of the organization’s first Jewish members. Lawyer, NAACP litigation director and former Dean of Howard University Law School Charles Hamilton…
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Black and Right
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” The newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. Ward Connerly — founder and chairman of the American Civil Liberties Institute and crusader against affirmative action. Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell conceding to Ted…
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A Christmas Story
Santa shouldn’t have come to my house. At least, in theory. To my mother and father, both immigrants from Ethiopia, St. Nick was always somewhat of an anomaly, an outlandish icon of someone else’s Christmas. As children, they observed the holiday on Jan. 7, like other Orthodox Christians, in accordance with the Coptic calendar. There…
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New-Age Piracy
In the 21st century, piracy has most commonly been used to refer to music and movies. Global economic woes, though, are giving the word back its prior meaning—indicative of black beards and eye-patches. Recently, off the coast of Kenya and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, oil tankers have fallen victim to pirates looking for ransom.…
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The Great Debaters, Rugby-style
Rugby brings the world to you and you to the world,” Alex Pettiford, a sophomore, said. Also, nine minutes well spent. Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\”
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
