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Always Bet on Black: Wesley Snipes' Sentence Is Upheld
Film star Wesley Snipes will have to serve three years in federal prison, according to a federal appeals court. In 2008 Snipes was given three years for failing to file income taxes from 1999 to 2001. During that time, prosecutors were able to prove that Snipes made $13.8 million. Snipes appealed the conviction because he…
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Reforming Wall Street
It’s common knowledge that, for myriad historical reasons, America’s black-white wealth gap is atrocious. In 2007 white households had 15 times the total wealth of African-American households. And this year a study showed that median wealth for a single black woman is just $100; for a single white woman, that sum jumps to $41,000. Exacerbating…
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Serial Murderers' Row
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Sowell was arrested in 2009 after a woman claimed that she had been raped at his Cleveland home. Soon after the police went to his house to question him, they discovered 11 bodies buried in his backyard. He reportedly lured his victims to…
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Best Black Businesses in the Wine Industry
The Wine Institute says that 90 percent of American wine comes from California’s nearly 2,900 wineries and 4,600 grape wine growers. The Association of African American Vintners has seven members, and there are several other black winemakers, also covered in this photo slide show, who aren’t members. Black-owned restaurants, and wine bars that carry the…
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The Denzel Effect: Halle Berry, Samuel Jackson, and Will and Jada Smith Eye Broadway
Call it the Denzel Washington effect, but a number of A-List black celebrities are slated to star in Broadway productions in the near future. The New York Post reports that Halle Berry may star in The Mountaintop, a new drama about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Samuel L. Jackson may also star in The Mountaintop.…
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Dealing With Sexual Pressure and the Myth of the Needy Fat Girl
It is 10:40 a.m., and it is already a sweltering 85 degrees. The humidity is so high it feels much hotter; the air so thick with moisture, it feels like a sauna upstairs. Yes, upstairs. In my home. Late yesterday afternoon, the 11-year-old upstairs air-conditioning system gave up the ghost. This is not surprising, given…
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Blackout: Black Contractors Left Out of BP Oil Cleanup
The blackout continues. Civil rights organizations are hopping mad that black contractors are being shut out of the highly profitable BP oil-spill cleanup efforts. According to a recent investigation by the NAACP, minority contractors are not being given an opportunity to make money by cleaning up the spill that has destroyed the livelihoods of so…
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John Edwards Affair Coming to a Theater Near You
Andrew Young is still on the warpath, making sure that the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is told about the John Edwards affair that maligned his image. Young was the aide who initially took the fall for impregnating Edwards’ mistress Rielle Hunter, and then told the truth after being “mistreated” by…
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Drawing the Line for the Tea Party
I regularly receive e-mails from the Tea Party movement. Sometimes I delete them, but mostly I read them. They’re interesting. Here’s a sample of some of the statements contained in the Tea Party e-mails I’ve received: The Army of Darkness will not be defeated easily; they lust for control of our beloved Nation. The guy…
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First Family Heads to Weekend Family Vacation
The first family will vacation at a national park in Maine this weekend. On Friday the first family was to fly to Bar Harbor, Maine, and spend much of the weekend in Acadia National Park, enjoying its breathtaking ocean views and nature trails. Bar Harbor is a famed summer getaway for the rich and famous,…