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NYC Marathon: Gebremariam Wins for Men, Kiplagat for Women
East Africans dominated this year’s ING New York City Marathon. Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia won the men’s title at the New York City Marathon in his debut for the race, with an unofficial time of 2:08:14. Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat won the women’s race today at 2:28:20. It was her first major marathon championship. World-record holder…
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GOP Gains House, Seating New Black Members
Despite efforts by President Barack Obama and the Democrats to rally their base at the eleventh hour, voter anger about the shabby state of the economy swept through Congress on Tuesday, leaving in its wake a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. As of 11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, CNN was predicting that the GOP…
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Obama Tells Jon Stewart, 'Yes We Can, but … '
Eager to energize youth voters for his party in the 2010 midterm elections next week, President Barack Obama appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Wednesday night. His turn was short on jokes (“You should have held a Rally to Restore Sanity two years ago” was one of his few quips) and…
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DNC Targets Black Voters With John Legend Radio Ad
R&B singer John Legend may have told The Root that he was not optimistic about the midterm elections, but that didn’t stop him from recording a radio ad for the Democratic National Committee to urge voters, especially African Americans, to “make history again.” Titled “Out There” — a riff off of Legend’s hopey-changey hit “If You’re Out…
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Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson Dead at 48
Sad news for the people of Barbados: Their prime minister, David Thompson, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 48. His deputy, Freundel Stuart, was sworn in this morning as the new prime minister. The next elections are scheduled for 2012. Thompson, who became prime minister of the Caribbean nation of 270,000 people in…
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The Root Interview: HUD's Shaun Donovan on Foreclosure Chaos
Just when it seemed that this country’s home-foreclosure crisis couldn’t get any worse, Bank of America made a stunning announcement on Oct. 1: The nation’s largest consumer bank was halting foreclosures altogether in 23 states (later expanded to 50) after reports came out that it and other banks had “robo-signed” thousands of affidavits confirming that…
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VIDEO: Jimmy 'Rent Is Too Damn High' McMillan Makes His Case
The breakout hit of NY1’s gubernatorial debate was not the volatile Republican Carl Paladino or the pedigreed Democrat Andrew Cuomo, but the candidate from the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, Jimmy McMillan. Throughout the debate, the baroquely-bearded candidate kept hammering his campaign platform home: Rent is too damn high. It was so catchy, even…
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Soul Singer Solomon Burke Dead at 70
Soul singer Solomon Burke died early today on an airplane in Amsterdam at the age of 70. A message from his family posted today on his official website said, “The legendary King of Rock & Soul, Solomon Burke, our father, passed away due to natural causes. Solomon had just arrived at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the…
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Bishop Eddie Long to Congregation: Won't 'Be Pulled Into a Street Fight'
Sunday morning in church, Bishop Eddie Long told his congregation that he would “not be pulled into a street fight” and that he doesn’t hate anyone, in remarks widely construed to be directed at the four men accusing him of sexual misconduct. “They talk about the Constitution but they don’t want to live by it,” he…
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Progressives Unite: Scenes From the 'One Nation' Rally
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter. Thousands pledged allegiance to the flag during the One Nation Working Together rally. The gathering in Washington, D.C., was organized by the NAACP, National Council of La Raza, AFL-CIO and other civil rights and labor groups. MSNBC’s Ed…
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