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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Tiger to Release Himself from Captivity at Presser Friday
Cue the Reconciliation of Tiger Woods. According to the PGA Tour website, Woods will emerge from exile to make a statement at PGA Tour headquarters. What will he say? Your guess is as good as ours. Email us your predictions to [email protected] or drop a dime on our Twitter feed @TheRoot247.
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My Doctor Checks What's In My Blood. In a Sense, So Does My Therapist.
I spent three hours yesterday getting poked, prodded, stabbed and analyzed, all in the name of good health, by a pair of docs. (Paradox?) I had my annual physical with Dr. Bean, and that includes a full blood exam. My blood pressure was 124/78, and I understand that’s not bad. (I choose not to learn…
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Obama: A Tale of Two Charts
According to this fancy chart, the President’s stimulus plan and economic recovery are undoing the mess he made while being president the last eight years (wait…). Despite this and other victories large and small, a CNN poll has 52% of Americans saying Obama doesn’t deserve to be re-elected. And they liked Congress even less. Respondents…
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Read/React: "How to Raise a Racist Kid"
Found this article over on Wired. Discussion: how to raise a racist kid Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.” Step Two: Actually, that’s it. There is no Step Two. Congratulations! Your children are well on their way to believing that <insert your ethnicity here> is better than…
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David Paterson Bombshell More a Slight Water Balloon
So the big spot-blowing expose the New York Times had in store for us regarding David Paterson was nothing worth bating breaths about. The scandal meant to shake the governor’s mansion to its foundation was the revelation that Paterson’s driver and close confidant used to run the streets and hits women. Now, it’s not to…
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Tweet Sheet: Supposedly Hardened Enemy Combatant Cooperates
Got this scoop from @BreakingNews via @AdamSerwer concerning the Christmas Day Bomber. According to Breaking News, ole boy isn’t exactly unbreakable Alleged Christmas Day bomber is cooperating with U.S. interrogators because he has phobia about prison, Bob Woodward tells ‘Morning Joe’. Will this mean a bit less hand-wringing? Probably not.
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NEWS STAND: Bad Time for Black Politics, Buying African Mobile, Hamburger War
It’s Hard Out Here for a Black Politician First, there was the exposé by the New York Times of the Congressional Black Caucus’ profligate ways, spending more on catering than on the scholarships it gives out to black college students. The story has not provoked the outrage you might expect.Maybe folks are in the don’t-air-our-dirty-linen…
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Bill Withers: An American in Full
Bill Withers is an American original. His voice is as clear as the wind and just as carefree. Withers has that gift from the gods so overlooked in popular songwriters: a well-tuned ear. Ringtones of his “Lovely Day” and “Just the Two of Us” summon Generation X to their cell phones. Not bad for a…
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What Sen. Evan Bayh and Joe the Plumber Have in Common
Being a U.S. senator is arguably the best political job in the country. It has most of the prestige and almost none of the accountability of being president of the United States. But Sen. Evan Bayh—age 54, with solid poll numbers and a helmet of hair straight out of central casting—is stepping down from his…
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Blacks and Income: What We Earn
Who Works? In 2008, employment among the major race and ethnicity groups, with the exception of Asians, was lower than a year earlier. The employment-population ratios (the proportion of the population that is employed): Blacks: 57.3 percent. This pattern of a relatively low employment-population ratio for blacks has persisted for decades. Asians: 64.3 percent. Hispanics:…