Black Internet Furious After Usher Gets Wrapped Up in Trump’s Online Mess
How the Prosecution Tied Up Its Case in Diddy Trial’s Closing Arguments
Supermodel Anok Yai Looked Stunning and Different at Paris Fashion Week
Jasmine Crockett Says What We’ve All Been Thinking About Melania Trump’s U.S. Citizenship
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The Root Interview: dream hampton on 'Black August'
dream hampton first attracted attention in the ’90s when she was writing for the hip-hop bible, The Source, but what most people don’t realize is that writing was simply a diversion from hampton’s real love, film. “You can’t help how people identify you, but film was the only reason I was in New York in…
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The Root Interview: Cassandra Wilson
With her 1993 recording Blue Light ‘Til Dawn, Cassandra Wilson changed the course of jazz. Until then, most jazz was either traditional, experimental or a fusion of jazz and pop. Wilson showed that it could be all three by blending jazz and Delta blues and applying her sound to a repertoire that ranged from blues…
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'For Colored Girls,' Not for Black Men
As a black kid growing up in the 1990s, I was in love with film. I would leave a theater and remember lines: Laurence Fishburne in 1991’s Boyz N the Hood telling his son, “You my son; you’re my problem.” I can recall the look in the eyes of the militants in the film Panther;…
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Single-Minded: Relationship Politics
“Throw the bums out!” Whether it’s a midterm election, a library after dark or one’s love life, the rallying cry appeals to the secret spring-cleaning obsession in all of us. Bagging the old and parading the new is a one-two punch that requires little sweat and makes us feel that much more fit. Throw ’em…
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Stocks Surge a Day After Fed Announces Stimulus Plan
Stocks rose sharply Thursday, one day after the Federal Reserve announced a $600 billion plan to stimulate the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 172.11, or 1.5 percent, to 11,387.24 in midday trading, a day after closing at its highest level since September 2008.The dollar fell against other currencies as traders anticipated lower U.S.…
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Keli Goff: 5 Women Who Mattered in the Midterms
Acccording to Keli Goff, if the 1992 election was the Year of the Woman, then 2010 may well be dubbed the Year of the Mama Grizzly. But a look at the nationwide results from the 2010 midterms show a much more complex picture. There were Mama Grizzlies who roared, and others who got bit and…
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Atlanta Housewives' Star Sheree Whitfield's Luxury Vehicle Seized
Sheree Whitfield, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, is reaping the seeds that were sewn from her continued reckless spending. Whitfield’s $200,000 Aston Martin was seized by her former divorce lawyers, who sued her and won for nonpayment. Allegedly, the reality star and “clothes designer” tallied up more than $110,000 in legal fees. She failed…
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Applications for Jobless Aid Rise Sharply
The number of people seeking jobless benefits jumped sharply last week, after two straight weeks of declines. The increase undermines hopes that unemployment claims, after falling four times in the previous five weeks, were on a sustained downward trend. That would signal layoffs were slowing down and hiring was picking up. Instead, claims remain stuck…
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Fear as Haitians Brace for Tropical Storm Tomas
For nearly 10 months, more than 1 million people have been living in Haiti’s earthquake camps, working diligently to maintain order, fight forced evictions, protect their tents and survive on a daily basis. Now Hurricane Tomas threatens to upend that careful balance. The Haitian government has called for the voluntary evacuation of all the quake…
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Van Jones to Headline Energy Forum
Van Jones, best-selling author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, heads a lineup of top leaders in the energy industry set to appear at the “Black Enterprise Conversation on Energy Forum, Part II.” The invitation-only event will…