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World Cup Tragedy: Mandela Won't Show After Kin's Death
Former South African president Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela was killed in a car accident while leaving the World Cup kick-off concert celebration in Soweto. The driver of the car is alleged to have been drinking and driving and was arrested. A police spokesperson said that a case of probable vehicular homicide had been opened.…
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Single-Minded: On Slim Thug's Susie Homemaker Fetish
I just got finished folding someone else’s underwear. Like fitted sheets, skivvies are only hard to figure out once one has to dog-ear them into submission. It’d probably be easier to just ball them up and tuck them away for later, but then there are the wrinkles to consider. Same thing goes for domesticity in…
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World Cup Report: Poverty and Promise in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG—The new South Africa is a bountiful land, a country of extremes. Affluence lives next to poverty. I see this on my first visit. My suburban accommodations are top-class: high walls, electrical fences, remote-controlled metal gates, panic buttons, security guards and manicured lawns. Less than five minutes away sits a shantytown. The nearest sign says…
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The Dangers of Letting Too Much Time Pass Between Meals
So there I was in the middle of Big Lots, fully five hours since I’d had a banana, surrounded by aisles of snacks and candy. I’d just dropped off Sky at her coaching job, and needed to get some tape, lightbulbs and a colander. I did end up buying some almonds, but was too thirsty…
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American Apparel Only Wants Black Employees With 'Nice' Hair?
Internal documents from American Apparel reveal hiring practices that discriminate against the overweight, the pierced, the unstylish and black women who don’t have “nice hair,” whatever that means: Many said that the company’s practice of photographing all job applicants has been going for years. Another former AA manager says that she received the following instructions as…
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'Top Chef Masters' Winner: Marcus Samuelsson
Wednesday night’s broadcast of the Bravo network’s Top Chef Masters featured the last three contestants of the reality-television competition: Marcus Samuelson, Susur Lee and Rick Moonen. The final episode of the season spelled out victory for Samuelson, the famous chef and restaurateur whose closing dish was a smoked char, salt-cured duck with foie gras flan, and…
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Is There a Different Office Dress Code for Curvy Women?
Is there an implicit racial bias in American workplace dress codes against the ample proportions of women of color, or do some sisters just need to learn how to dress for the office? BV On Style’s Whitney Teal weighs in: How many times have you been out with friends only to see a woman you and…
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Rep. Clyburn Skeptical of Alvin Greene's South Carolina Victory
With reports that Alvin Greene, the 32-year-old unemployed veteran who won the South Carolina Senate primary, is facing pending felony charges, Rep. James Clyburn called for an investigation into Greene’s background and campaign finances. Clyburn, suspicious that a third party provided Greene with the $10,400 filing fee required to run, suggested that the Democratic candidate was a “plant”: While Greene…
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Super Tuesday: Ladies' Night or the GOP's New Diversity Strategy?
The consensus emerging from Tuesday’s primaries is that there’s no real consensus. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter called it for women: ”With only six women governors, 16 women senators, and 74 women in the House, female candidates are fresher for voters looking for change.” TIME’s Jay Newton-Small says pragmatism won: ”If Washington wasn’t quite the winner tonight,…
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Another Former Presidential Contender Goes Green
The last time The Root checked in with former ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, it was to get her thoughts on what it takes for black women to make it in politics. She was, after all, the first black female senator in Congress, serving in Illinois from 1993 to 1999. She was also ambassador to New…