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'Treemonisha' in Paris
Nearly 100 years after it was composed, nearly 45 years after its first full-scale performance in America, Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha has arrived in France. Beneath the glittering chandelier and the towering proscenium arch of the Théâtre du Châtelet, one of Paris’ finest concert halls, Treemonisha, the first opera ever composed by an American, is…
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The Root Goes Mobile
You can access The Root from any mobile phone that has a Web browser. Now there’s no reason to miss reading the latest black news and your favorite articles from The Root. Just go to: mobile.theroot.com using your smart phone’s Web browser. Bookmark us for easy access. Become a fan of The Root on Facebook.…
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Nearly Half of Black Women Have Herpes
The latest news out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is very troubling, to say the least. A jaw-dropping 48 percent of black women between ages 14 and 49 have the virus which causes genital herpes, says the federal agency. Blacks in general are more than three times as likely as whites to…
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The Root’s Gates Among Winners of NAACP Image Awards
We had a lot of advice for the NAACP before their 41st annual Image Awards ceremony Friday. In at least one case, they did listen and passed up on giving the award for literary non-fiction to Al Gore. Instead, the winner in that category was The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. for his book, “In…
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NEWS STAND: Noose Leads Students to Storm Office, Pro-Life Blacks
Latest in “Compton Cookout” Controversy Black students at University of California in San Diego have finally had enough. First there was the off-campus “Compton Cookout” party parodying black stereotypes. When black students complained, the campus TV station mocked them with a racist broadcast. Black students and others protested that, after which a noose was found dangling in a…
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Win Your Own 'Faces of America'-Type Moment
There’s only a few more days to enter for a chance to win a free DNA kit, with the results personally delivered by editor-in-chief of The Root and “Faces of America” host Dr. Henry Lous Gates, Jr. Find more details and an online entry form on the Rooted For The Future sweepstakes page.
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Why Voting For Obama Was Like Buying Starbucks Coffee
In my recent book, Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks (University of California Press, 2009), I show how consumerism has oozed into every corner and crevice of American life and how we increasingly treat everything as a purchase. We seem to think that anything of value in life can be bought as…
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NEWS STAND: Bad Time for Black Politics, Buying African Mobile, Hamburger War
It’s Hard Out Here for a Black Politician First, there was the exposé by the New York Times of the Congressional Black Caucus’ profligate ways, spending more on catering than on the scholarships it gives out to black college students. The story has not provoked the outrage you might expect.Maybe folks are in the don’t-air-our-dirty-linen…
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Three of Color Dead in Alabama Campus Shooting
The three University of Alabama Huntsville faculty members who were killed Friday were all people of color. Gopi Bodila, the, the chairman of the biology department, was of Indian origin. Dr. Adriel Johnson, an associate professor, and Dr. Maria Ragland Davis, an assistant professor who specialized in plant sciences, were both African-American. Amy Bishop, a…
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How to Survive Snowmageddon
OK, if you live in the Eastern half of the United States, you’re probably stuck home in the snow. But since you’re reading this, you have your Internet connection. You want to make good use of your time, but the TV is dominated by game shows, talk shows and soaps at this time of day—and…
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