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10 Albums We Can't Wait to Hear in 2013
(The Root) — This year is expected to bring album releases from veteran stars as well as heavy-hitting up-and-comers. From smooth soul joints from Maxwell and D’Angelo to rugged rap releases by A$AP Rocky, Earl Sweatshirt and more, check out the 10 albums we’re most eagerly awaiting in 2013.
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How Will Obama Handle HBCUs?
(The Root) — Between now and the inauguration on Jan. 21, The Root will be taking a daily look at the president’s record on a number of policy issues, including his first-term accomplishments and what many Americans hope to see him accomplish in a second term. Today: the war on drugs. See previous postings in…
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Slavery on Film: Sanitized No More
(The Root) — Not many films keep me thinking for days on end. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, about a slave-turned-bounty hunter in the antebellum South, accomplished this and then some. As a result, I have to classify it as a great film. A truly great film should stay with you, and Django certainly does. Some…
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Obama Heads the Right Way on Poverty, Jobs
(The Root) — Despite all the rhetoric about reclaiming the American dream for middle-class Americans in this past presidential election, Barack Obama has done more for lower-income Americans than any president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. Quite frankly, I think that Obama’s programs prevented poverty — including concentrated poverty — from rapidly rising over the past…
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Medgar Evers' Widow to Deliver Inauguration Prayer
Medgar Evers’ widow to deliver inauguration prayer: President Obama has chosen Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers, to deliver the invocation at his public swearing-in later this month, the Washington Post reports. This will be the first time a woman, and a layperson rather than a clergy member, has been chosen…
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Can Tavis Get Obama to Address Poverty First?
(The Root) — When we spoke to Tavis Smiley back in September, right in the midst of widespread hand-wringing about his and Cornel West’s election-season criticism of President Obama’s treatment of the issue of poverty, he made a promise: Regardless of which candidate won the election, Smiley said, he’d challenge the nation’s new leader to…
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Obama's 5 Bold Moves of 2013
(The Root) — Though we are just over a week into 2013, some are already calling this time period a defining one of the Obama presidential legacy. From his new approach to negotiating with the GOP to his efforts to fight for his children, we take a look at the president’s boldest moves so far.…
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How Will Obama Handle the War on Drugs?
(The Root) — Between now and the inauguration on Jan. 21, The Root will be taking a daily look at the president’s record on a number of policy issues, including his first-term accomplishments and what many Americans hope to see him accomplish in a second term. Today: the war on drugs. See previous postings in…
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'The Root Live' Video: Where to Work in '13
(The Root) — The jobs crisis isn’t a story we left behind in 2012; as we enter the new year, employment is on everyone’s mind! In the third webisode of The Root Live, taped on Jan. 7, host Harriette Cole was joined by Dedrick Muhammad, executive director of the NAACP’s Financial Freedom Center; executive recruiter Volora Howell;…
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Banks Reach $8.5 Billion Settlement on Mortgage Abuse
Ten of the biggest U.S. mortgage companies agreed yesterday to an $8.5 billion settlement with federal regulators. The settlement will end a case-by-case review program to identify Americans whose homes were improperly seized in the wave of foreclosure filings that occurred nationwide after the 2007 housing collapse. Critics, including one member of the Congressional Black…
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