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Job Lead: Substance Abuse Counselor in N.C.
The Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune, N.C., is looking for someone with a degree in behavioral science, with specialized training in substance abuse and chemical dependency treatment, to be a substance abuse counselor. It’s a full-time, long-term contracting position that offers a competitive salary and benefits, including paid vacations and holidays, health insurance and a…
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Waiting While Black?
On Oct. 30, when thousands were gathered in Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, Dori Maynard faced a moment of insanity. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, was thrown out of a Hampton Inn in the nation’s capital for reasons that are still unexplained. In a recent…
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The Root Newsletter Is Going Daily
As a reader of The Root, you might have noticed that we recently boosted the amount of news coverage and perspectives that we offer each day. To make sure you don’t miss a thing, The Root Newsletter is moving from weekly to daily delivery starting on November 12. Each morning you’ll receive a selection of the latest…
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How Robin Quivers Got it All Wrong
You may have heard that Robin Quivers is the new health expert for The Huffington Post. Quivers is best known as radio shock jock Howard Stern’s excuse for getting away with racially insensitive jokes and comments. Lately, though, she’s been making the media rounds, telling folks about her new, vegan lifestyle, and making sure her…
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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
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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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