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Fixing Your Debt Woes From the Bottom Up
(The Root) — Many people start out the new year with the best of intentions — getting out of debt, saving for a rainy day — but find themselves failing before they even begin. During the Monday, Dec. 17, webcast of The Root Live — an episode dedicated to achieving prosperity in 2013 — Washington Post…
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'The Root Live' Video: Find Prosperity in '13
(The Root) — Who doesn’t want tips for prosperity in the New Year? In the latest The Root Live webcast, which aired Monday, Dec. 17, host Harriette Cole tackled the topic with three experts: Teri Williams, president of OneUnited Bank; Harris Glasser, author of It’s My Money and I Want It; and Michelle Singletary, personal-finance…
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Rob Parker Suspended Over RGIII Remarks
ESPN Pundit Questioned Quarterback’s Blackness ESPN commentator Rob Parker was suspended Friday after igniting a firestorm when he questioned whether Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was a “real” black man. Parker said Thursday on ESPN’s “First Take,” “Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother?” Both men are African American. “He’s not…
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Who Are the Most Giving Black Celebs?
In this clip from the Monday, Dec. 10, episode of The Root Live, our weekly livestream series sponsored by Prudential, host Harriette Cole chatted with Black Gives Back‘s Tracey Webb about black philanthropy. Watch the clip below to see what she had to say about which celebrities are the biggest givers. You might be surprised!…
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Station Says Axing Was About Policy, Not Hair
Responding to an uproar over the firing of Rhonda Lee, a meteorologist who responded to criticism of her short Afro on the station’s Facebook site, the news director at KTBS in Shreveport, La., said the firing was over violations of station policy, not her hair. Randy Bain, KTBS news director, pointed to a memo emailed…
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Up Next on 'The Root Live': Michelle Singletary
Watch the video below for a sneak peek at what you’ll see when you tune in to The Root Live, our new weekly livestream series sponsored by Prudential, right here at noon on Monday, Dec. 17. Be sure to bring your questions, and tweet using our hashtag, #TheRootLive.
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Fired From TV for Explaining Black Hair?
A black female meteorologist has been fired from the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, La., she told Journal-isms, because she responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station’s Facebook page. KTBS-TV’s action against Rhonda Lee followed a previous response by Lee to a viewer who questioned whether she should wear her short…
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'The Root Live' Video: Philanthropy, Finance
(The Root) — In the first episode of The Root Live, recorded on Dec. 10, 2012, host Harriette Cole interviewed Tracey Webb — founder of the blog Black Gives Back — and Morgan Stanley’s Michael Braithwaite, who hosts the radio show Money Talks, about the ins and outs of charitable giving. The weekly livestream series,…
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Pulitzer Winner Robin Givhan Laid Off
Fashion Journalist Leaving Newsweek/Daily Beast Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist, is among those laid off from Newsweek and the Daily Beast, according to Joe Coscarelli, writing Friday for the Daily Intel column of New York magazine. ” ‘I plan to work on my book about the 1973 Versailles fashion show and look for…
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Zimbabwe Diamond Scandal Overlooked
N.Y. Times Public Editor Says Paper Misses the Boat Perhaps understandably, a court ruling that a Zimbabwean mining executive must pay U.S. $10 million in defamation damages because of comments published by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks did not get much Western news coverage. Andrew Cranswick, CEO of African Consolidated Resources, allegedly told U.S. diplomats that…