A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion
In Minnesota Assassination Attempt, Wife’s Split-Second Decision is a Testament to a Mother’s Love
KWN, ‘The Female Version of Chris Brown’ Got Black Men Worried And For Good Reason
Oklahoma Black Man Hit By Patrol Car During Jaywalking Arrest, and That’s Not Even the Most Infuriating Part
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Why Talk about Weight to the Overweight?
Back in the day when I was doing some diversity training, I liked to share some wisdom I’d been taught about Native Americans, who are sometimes perceived as unintelligent, antisocial or disrespectful because of the way they communicate. Fact is, this is a culture that understands the power of words; that understands that once words…
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Your Take: Why Elena Kagan is a Good Choice for the Supreme Court
I am writing to follow up on some of the concerns I am hearing about my colleague Elena Kagan’s civil rights record and whether she would be a fit candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. While it is certainly up to the President to find the ideal person and to look at a number of…
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GALLERY: Black Republicans Running for Congress
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Mississippi’s 1st district After founding a conservative political consulting firm, McGlowan went on to analyze business and politics for Fox News. In her own words: “President Barack Obama and San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi are implementing policies that are destroying our conservative…
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High School Hooper Turns Out to Be Grown Man
Jerry Joseph was living his dream, starting as a sophomore on his high school basketball team. Too bad Joseph, whose real name is Guerwich Montimere, graduated from high school in 2007. Guerdwich Montimere, a 2007 Dillard High School graduate who posed as a Texas high school player, bonded out of the Ector County Detention Center…
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HBO Takes on 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'
HBO Films announced today that it has acquired the rights to Rebecca Skloot’s non-fiction best seller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and will develop a film for HBO based on the book. Oprah Winfrey is among the project’s executive producers, and her Harpo Films production company is on board. The book, says an HBO…
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Arizona Signs Anti-Ethnic Studies Bill Into Law
Do ethnic studies in Arizona? Well, you’re SOL if you do! A bill that aims to ban ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jan Brewer, cheering critics who called such classes divisive and alarming others who said it’s yet another law targeting Latinos in the state. The move comes…
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Some Light Reading: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Legislative Package
The White House has put together a legislative package to deal with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Below is an excerpt The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster which can seriously damage the economy and environment of our Gulf states and could jeopardize the…
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A Supreme Snub by Obama
President Barack Obama needed only to look across his dinner table each evening or in the bed next to him each night to see a well-educated and well-qualified black female attorney who could have made a great U.S. Supreme Court nominee. For reasons surpassing my understanding, however, the president apparently did not include a black…
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NEWS STAND: Libya Crash Survivor, Gulf Pollution, Maxwell and Jill Scott on Tour and more..
Miracle at Tripoli: 103 Dead as Jet Crashes in Libya; Child Survives Crashhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37100560/ns/world_news-africa 103 people were killed when a plane crashed in Libya, while trying to land at Tripoli airport. The Afriqiyah Airways plane was flying from Johannesburg to Tripoli, when it crashed killing the crew and all but one passenger. Amazingly, a child survived…