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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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Obama's Day, Jan. 8: Meeting Defense Secretary Panetta
WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2013 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President will meet with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in the Oval Office. This…
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High School White Supremacist Attack Averted?
Scary news about school violence, depressing news about the persistence of white supremacist views and good news about law-enforcement success in preventing what it sounds like could have been a catastrophic combination of the two. Alabama police say they’ve averted an attack by a 17-year-old who was “doing the whole white-power thing,” embraced the Nazi…
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'Django' Slavery Toys: Disrespectful of Black History?
Just when you thought we’d maxed out on controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s slavery-themed action flick Django Unchained — mainly around whether and how slavery should be treated as entertainment — EURWeb reports that a line of action figures has been produced by the National Entertainment Collectibles Association in tandem with the Weinstein Co., based on characters…
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Queen of Sheba: Black and Beautiful
(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. This manuscript was made for the court of Emperor Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, where Conrad of Kyeser served as…
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