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  • Working the Late Show Shift

    PHOTO GALLERY: The Tonight Show with… President Obama? READ Why Obama’s Special Olympics joke was a wrong move by David Swerdlick.   READ Jimi Izrael’s take. INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT BY JAY LENO, “TONIGHT SHOW” Burbank, California Q The 44th President of the United States, please welcome President Barack Obama. (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.)…

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  • John Legend's N.Y. Post Boycott

    R&B superstar John Legend has weighed in on the N.Y. Post cartoon controversy with an open letter to the editor, in which he promises a personal boycott and urges readers and advertisers to join him. Here is the full text: Dear Editor: Iʼm trying to understand what possible motivation you may have had for publishing…

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  • I Do Solemnly Swear, Really!!

    Chief Justice John Roberts re-administered the oath of office to President Obama Wednesday night in a move that Obama aides described as an ‘abundance of caution,’ after the Roberts took one said one word out of sequence while leading Obama in the oath on Tuesday. No one was really questioning whether Obama was president, but…

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  • Out With The Old, In With The New

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  • Barack, Sit Down With Damon!

    Dear Transition Team, Okay, so you haven’t granted The Root an interview yet, but we’re willing yo wait our turn if you sit down with Damon Weaver, a 10-year-old student reporter at Canal Point Elementary in Palm Beach, Fla., who is coming to Washington for the inauguration. Yes, he’s only in the fifth grade, but…

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  • The Big Money Sells Michelle

    Michelle Obama has loudly signaled that she intends to be entirely her own kind of first lady; her evident independence will bring her lots of attention, but Mrs. O may be a huge branding opportunity and not just for the Obama administration. In “Selling Michelle” on TheBigMoney, Lauren Sandler looks at the marketing possibilities that…

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  • Shout Out: The Dress

    Did your election night party cheer or gasp when Michelle Obama strode out on stage in her bold black and red dress? Was there a collective pause among your friends and family or were people too overjoyed to care when watching history in the making? Folks across the Web have been debating the pros and…

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  • No We Can't, Black Folks

    There’s been an e-mail going around advising black folks on unacceptable behavior now that Obama has won. We at The Root thought we’d add a few tips of our own. 1. No Negro spirituals or quotes from Dr. King. John Hope Franklin can get away with this. The rest of us cannot. 2. Don’t go…

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