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  • Inside the Mind of a Genius: Edwidge Danticat

    Now that you know How to Be a Black Genius, members of the 2009 class of MacArthur fellows give some insight into the way they live and think. EDWIDGE DANTICAT Age: 40 Hometown: Port-au-Prince, Haiti Current Location: Miami, FL Occupation: Writer 1. What four adjectives would your first best friend use to describe you? Funny, neurotic, sensitive and,…

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  • Inside the Mind of a Genius: Richard O. Prum

    Now that you know How to Be a Black Genius, members of the 2009 class of MacArthur fellows give some insight into the way they live and think. Age: 48 Current Location: New Haven, Connecticut Occupation: Professor at Yale University 1. What four adjectives would your first best friend use to describe you? Enthusiastic, passionate, adventurous, nerdy 2. What…

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  • Meet The Root 100

    The Root 100 is a newly minted honor intended to celebrate the leadership, service and excellence of African-American men and women whose passion, dedication and innovative work have set them apart. The Root 100 is the manifestation of a core component of The Root’s mission—to bring to light people and ideas who are quietly having…

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  • Marc Lamont Hill Reportedly Fired for Not Being Juan Williams

    Fox News has reportedly let go of liberal analyst Marc Lamont Hill for, ostensibly, having opinions that did not jibe with the level-headed bunch bankrolled by Rupert Murdoch. In fact, it was Murdoch himself who announced Hill’s ouster at a shareholder’s meeting on Friday. According to Mediaite: Interestingly, the news was broken by News Corp.…

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  • King Kids Settle Lawsuit Over Estate

    The King kids are playing nice (for now) over their family’s estate. From the AP: Martin Luther King III, Bernice King and Dexter King had aired their grievances in open court for more than a year. The siblings began negotiations Monday morning as the threat loomed of a civil trial that was expected to reveal…

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  • Owner of D.C.'s Famous Ben's Chili Bowl Dies at 82.

    “He lived a full life and put a lot into the business,” says one member of the family. Ben Ali, the man who put the Ben in Ben’s Chili Bowl, died Wednesday night at the age of 82. He and his wife of 50 years, Virginia, established Ben’s Chili Bowl in 1958 on the U…

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  • MySpace to Facebook = White Flight?

    MySpace is no longer cool. As a matter of fact, its number of users is now one-half the size of rival Facebook. Is this because MySpace is too black for the rest of America? Teenage Internet users may hold the answer. High-schoolers report their use of the social-networking giants along racial lines—MySpace is seen as…

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  • Michael Jackson's Birthday Bash!

    UPDATE: Click here for the flyer and information about the 2010 bash! You could say that Spike Lee always had a special connection to Michael Jackson: They were born a year apart, both to musical families. Back in the day, every Saturday morning, Lee, like many other black kids across the country, sat down in…

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  • Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

    This year, Barack Obama celebrates his birthday in the White House as president of the United States. But, Michelle Obama and the first kids will be hard-pressed to find the right present for the commander in chief who has everything. The Root readers recommend a few gift ideas for the POTUS as he turns the…

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