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NY Times Probes Brazil's Blond Ambition
Brazil is celebrated for its abundance of exotic feminine beauty in all shades of the rainbow, but according to the New York Times, the modeling world (stupidly) passes over darker complexions for a whiter shade of pale. Indeed, [model] scouts say that more than 70 percent of the country’s models come from three southern states…
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Ground Zero Crowd Menaces African Men
Once again, racial profiling leads to bad decisions and injustice. On Monday in New York City, it led a group of people protesting a proposed Islamic center near the site of the September 11 attacks to turn on two men they thought looked and sounded suspicious: At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly…
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Today in Post-Rachelism: Weight-Loss Surgery a Touchy Topic
No wonder people who’ve had gastric bypass are loathe to tell others about it: Soon as they do, judgment awaits. My “Fed Up” series of posts about my friend Rachel included an intro, two-part Q&A, one-week follow-up and yesterday, a 19-day progress report. My goodness, what a response. In addition to comments on the blog,…
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Black Man Buys UK's Second-Largest Airport
That’s right. The new owner of Gatwick Airport, Britain’s second largest, is a brother. Adebayo Ogunlesi, president of Global Infrastructure Partners, an independent investment fund in New York City, struck a multibillion-dollar deal to acquire Gatwick. Talk about a-ballin’ for real. In an exclusive interview with Jeff Randall, Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners,…
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Chris Brown Is Denied Entry to UK
It seems Chris Brown can’t escape the past. The singer, who is trying to get his career back on track after suffering a public image flogging for assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna, has been denied entry to the U.K., where he was scheduled to perform three concerts. According to reports, Brown was refused a visa for…
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A Father's Fantasy: What Would Dad Really, Really Like?
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Does Dad need a new home? The largest one-family home in America is being built in Florida. Of course, you need $75 million to pay for it. The owner, who made his money in time shares, doesn’t want the 13-bedroom, 23-bath, 90,000-square-foot…
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Rangel Officially Enters the Race
To no one’s surprise but to quite a bit of ennui, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has officially announced that he is running for a 21st term in Congress, representing upper Manhattan. His announcement rally, like voter turnout in the district, was not overwhelming. It did attract Gov. David Paterson, an under-fire lame duck son of…
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Tupac Film Gets the Green Light
The growing canon of hip hop biopics is about to get a long-awaited addition: Director Antoine Fuqua, whose previous flicks include Training Day and Brooklyn’s Finest, will show Cali some love now that a film about the tumultuous life and tragic death of Tupac Shakur has been green-lighted. After two years of legal battles between Morgan Creek production company,…
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Tiger Woods Learning Center Comes to D.C.
In a statement released by the Tiger Woods Foundation, the pro-golfer announced that his charity will be establishing two Tiger Woods Learning Center campuses in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy. Construction of the campuses should be completed by mid-August and they are set to open by…
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Obama's Katrina? No. His Iran Hostage Crisis? Maybe.
The now-angry president of the United States is promising to find the right ”ass to kick” in connection with the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In lieu of an actual solution, which is still some ways off, this is not a bad strategy to pursue. But if the president is not able to…