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Obama's Day, Feb. 2: Starting Off With Prayer
Ever wonder what the president’s day looks like? Here’s the daily guidance and press schedule for Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, sent by the White House Press Office. Look out for President Obama’s schedule each weekday on The Root. In the morning, the President will deliver remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton.…
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Opera Singer Camilla Williams Dies
Camilla Williams, the first African-American singer to appear with a major American opera company, and Illinois University’s first black professor of voice, has died at age 92. The soprano passed away on Jan. 29 from cancer-related complications, the Associated Press reports: The opera pioneer made her historic debut on May 15, 1946 with the New…
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Watch It Live: Obama's Google+ Hangout
Join The Root as we hang out with President Obama tonight at the first-ever White House Google+ Hangout session.The president will take questions that came from more than 225,000 people who submitted and voted on questions on YouTube. While the deadline to submit questions has passed, you can catch the discussion live on White House’s…
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SAG: Davis, Spencer, 'The Help' Take Top Awards
At last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer took home top honors for their roles in the Deep South drama The Help. The film won them best actress and best supporting actress awards respectively, as well as the trophy for overall cast performance. In one of the most memorable and…
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Apology for MLK Strip Club Flyer
Every year around the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, there’s a debate about what aspects of contemporary American life would make him proud and what he’d be ashamed to be associated with if he were alive. This is one of the easier issues. It’s safe to say the late civil rights icon would not be…
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Watch It Live: New Protests, New Leadership
Join The Root as we live-stream WGBH TV’s Basic Black program, which will focus on the past year of protests at home and abroad. Viewers can watch live online and chat with us as experts discuss how recent protests focus less on leaders and more on the masses. Panelists will discuss the new role of…
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Gingrich's Fantasy NAACP Speech
Update: CBS News reports that NAACP President Benjamin Jealous responded to Newt Gingrich’s comments by saying, “It is a shame that the former speaker feels that these types of inaccurate, divisive statements are in any way helpful to our country. The majority of people using food stamps are not African American, and most people using…
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Rep's Email Calls Michelle O. 'Mrs. YoMama'
The latest addition to the ever-expanding “Tacky and racially inspired insults from Michelle Obama haters who should know better” file: The Kansas City Star reports that the state’s House speaker, Mike O’Neal, has (sort of) apologized for an email poking fun at a photo of first lady Michelle Obama’s windblown hair, comparing her to the…
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Ryan Seacrest: Beyoncé's About to Give Birth
What a great way for Mr. and Mrs. Carter to ring in the New Year! While introducing a performance by Beyoncé for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2012 on ABC, co-host Ryan Seacrest announced that Beyoncé would not be performing live, with a great excuse: “Obviously, Beyoncé couldn’t be here tonight because she’s about…
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The Best of the Holidays: Your Photos
Larry Bellinger posted this photo of his kids with Santa, circa 1992. “The ‘kids’ are now 25 and 26!” Reader Pamela Joseph writes, “This photo was taken for our family Christmas card a few years ago. It captures our kids as they look every Christmas Eve in their PJs waiting on Santa.” Rhonda and Thomas…
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