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Experts Rank Pelosi Among Greatest House Speakers
AOL’s Andrea Stone reports that Nancy Pelosi may be moving out of her spacious office in the Capitol, but the woman who broke the marble ceiling to become the first female speaker of the House has already moved into the ranks of the most effective legislators in history. “While right now she is overshadowed by…
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A Turning Point for Hope and Change
Two years after America elected its first black president and gave Democrats control of Congress, the country is in a very different mood. “Yes We Can” optimism has given way to Tea Party anger in some parts of the land, and too many members of key voting blocs backing Barack Obama and the Democrats the last…
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Black Voters Could Make the Difference
After two years in which President Obama seemed to keep black voters at arm’s length, the White House is finally making an unabashed appeal to racial solidarity; it could work, reports New York Times columnist Charles Blow. A report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies shows that there are significant concentrations of…
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The Tiny Record Empire in Cleveland
By Laura Putre There’s only one Berry Gordy, but Rust Belt America in the 1960s and ’70s was also home to at least a handful of African-American-run recording studios that thrived without bank loans, relying on secondhand equipment, the owners’ technical skill and ingenuity, and the ability to stretch a buck. The proprietors of these…
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The Root 100 2010
Click here for a list of all Root 100 profiles. You can share or send individual profiles from that list.
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Mary Lou Williams: The First Lady of Jazz
Throughout the history of jazz, men like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie carved out the basic musical fabrics that ranged from the boogie blues to fusion. Yet there’s one woman who is admiringly — and indisputably — the single thread that stitches together the many pieces spanning almost six decades. Mary Lou Williams,…
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Double Standard: Bike 'Thief' Experiment Highlights Racism
Primetime co-anchor John Quiñones hosted a segment of “What Would You Do?” On this particular segment, he held an experiment with two bicycle thieves, one white and the other black. The men were dressed the same and had tools to break the locks off of the bikes, which were located in an exposed area. Each…
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The Root's Black Caucus Weekend Party List
The Root’s Black Caucus Weekend Party List: Most parties require an invitation or an RSVP; if a party is open, the price of admission is listed above. The Root is a sponsor of events marked with an asterisk.*
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The Best of the Black Caucus Weekend
The Root’s Best Picks of the CBC’s 40th Annual Legislative Weekend in Washington, D.C.: *The Root is a co-sponsor of “Shut Out: Evaluating Madison Avenue for Disparity in Advertising Media and Creative Services”
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Black Labor's Laborious Road Ahead
Notwithstanding Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s late-summer paean to a phantom economic recovery (does he have imaginary playmates as well?), this Labor Day will be the bleakest for America’s workers since the nadir of the Great Depression in 1932. Back then, the unemployment rate was closing in on 25 percent. Foreclosures were up, morale down, and…
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