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Obama at Morehouse: Try Another Listen
(The Root) — As I suspect is the case with many African-American voters who hoped against hope that Barack Obama’s presidency would bring about a sea change in the condition of our people, I’ve been disappointed with what he has been able to accomplish. I give him full credit for the considerable achievements of his…
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Quote of the Day: Charles Hamilton Houston
Read the full quote here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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On Listening to 'New Slaves' With White People
Writing at Noisey, Ernest Baker explains why, although he thinks Kanye West’s new single is “27 times better if you’re black,” he hopes that white listeners will attempt to understand its message. … It’s not that white people can’t enjoy “New Slaves,” or that they’re all so dense as to not be able to grasp…
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Teens Flock to Twitter
(The Root) — Remember when you had to have a college email address to get a Facebook profile? Those days are long gone, as evidenced by the scores of high schoolers obsessed with the social networking site. But it seems the tide is turning again as a study shows that more teens are leaving Facebook…
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Oklahoma and Defense of Big Government
(The Root) — The tornado that devastated Oklahoma this week requires significant government aid to support recovery. This presents a unique problem for the Republican Party writ large — both in the state and in Washington, D.C. — as requests for aid, and approval thereof, undercut its meme of “self-reliance” and the dangers of “big…
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'Scandal' Withdrawal: It's a Real Thing
(The Root) — Thursday nights will never be the same (at least until September). After last week’s head-exploding closing line — “Dad?!” — fans of ABC’s cultural phenomenon Scandal have been left with a gaping hole in their social calendars. What to tweet about? What to actually talk about? What’s a gladiator to do without…
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Obama Can't Win With Some Black Critics
Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart says that what’s missing from most African-American critiques of President Obama is an appreciation for Republican resistance to his agenda. Here we go again. President Obama’s critics in the African American community are hammering him for doing nothing for black people. Drawing my attention this time is “How the Obama…
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Why the Scandals Aren't Touching Obama's Approval Rating
MSNBC‘s Evan Puschak looks at the theories about why the president’s approval has gone untouched despite government scandals. A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Obama’s approval rating holding steady at 51%, the same as it was a month ago. Gallup shows the same trend: in their poll Obama has remained at 49%. A CNN poll…
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Being Married Doesn
This past weekend I was in Oakland speaking on a panel discussion about love and relationships called Battle Of The Sexes. The main topic of discussion was how money influenced the way men and women date in our modern society, and because the audience was so diverse in age, the comments from the audience were…
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