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Oklahoma Will Not Be Subject to Shariah Law
Fresh from our “Is this for real or for play-play” file, Oklahomans will not be subject to Shariah law anytime in the near future. Ballot initiative SQ755, which bars state courts from using Islamic or international law, has been approved, with yes votes outweighing no votes by more than two to one. Please tell us…
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Why Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Win Won't Save His Career
In the immortal words of the great New York Yankee pundit Yogi Berra, “It was like déjà vu all over again.” Under a blinding media glare, yet another prominent American politician squirmed to sweep aside a damaging extramarital affair. This time it was Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., deflecting questions about a two-year-old indiscretion with…
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Say It Loud: Black Girls Rock!
Call it perfect timing. Black Girls Rock makes its television debut this weekend on BET as the public image of black women continues to be dragged through the mud. It is difficult to miss recent reports, blogs and viral videos exploring why many of us will never marry or even come close to finding a…
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Kamala Harris Says She Will Be California's Next AG
Kamala Harris is not claiming victory yet, but she says she will be California’s next attorney general. The roundabout announcement comes in the wake of her opponent’s announcement that he had won the very close contest. Republican Steve Cooley declared victory around 11 p.m. Tuesday, but Harris, the Democratic candidate, gradually closed the gap and…
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The Root Review: 'The Scottsboro Boys'
Few episodes of racism in our country resonate like that of the trial of the Scottsboro boys. In 1931, white youths attacked nine young black men riding the rails from Memphis to Chattanooga, Tenn., to look for work. When the police arrived and held the black men responsible, two white women from Alabama at the…
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Our Little Girls are Overweight and Depressed
First, the good news: University and hospital researchers in California have developed a new health-improvement program shown to have positive effects on cholesterol levels, diabetes risk and depression symptoms in obese African-American girls. That statement contains some pretty bad news: Little black girls are experiencing depression. Why? Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine and…
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The Women Behind 'For Colored Girls'
Lauren is a former Deputy Editor of The Root. As a writer and performer in San Francisco in the 1970s, Shange wrote and produced the first production of her choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Captions by Lauren Williams The acclaimed production would travel from San Francisco to…
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A Reflective Obama Blames Losses on the Economy
President Obama conceded Wednesday that the voters had handed him a “shellacking” in the midterm elections and said the “humbling” losses by Democratic officeholders made him “feel bad.” But the president refused to concede that his policies were to blame for the shift in public sentiment that flipped control of the House of Representatives to…
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Review: 'For Colored Girls,' the Movie
Converting Ntozake Shange’s award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf from stage to screen is clearly not a task for the faint of heart: It’s a big, modernist painting, abstract and minimalist — a “choreopoem”— told in verse and movement, with anonymous characters identified only by the color of…