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What Mariah, Beyoncé and J-Hud Owe Whitney Houston
She looked serene and comely on the album cover: lips parted seductively, hair slicked back and a strand of pearls encircled her thin neck. The peach border around the picture complemented the light, creamy color of her dress, which draped across one shoulder. The young singer’s name was in a stately brown font, all caps,…
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Quick Hits: Worst Segue of the Day
Saw this effery over on Jezebel. This is just…precious. Pun intended. #MSNBCAnchorFAIL
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Situation Critical: US Curbs AIDS Funding to Africa as Patient Numbers Rise
It’s situation critical in many parts of Africa as US funding is curbed in the fight against AIDS while the number of those infected mount. From The Wall Street Journal: Seven years after the U.S. launched its widely hailed program to fight AIDS in the developing world, the battle is reaching a critical turning point.…
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Read/React: "DADT: A Fight the Right Would Rather Not Have"
Adam Serwer has a few thoughts on why the Right doesn’t want to mix it up over DADT: The answer is that most of the country supports repealing DADT, and Republicans aren’t eager to get into a fight that public opinion doesn’t support them on and that will redefine the GOP as the party of…
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Beyoncé Sets New Grammy Record
Beyoncé set a new record for Grammy awards Sunday night, capturing six trophies, the most by a woman in the 52-year history of the music industry awards. After earlier winning for song of the year as co-writer of her Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), the 28-year-old’s sixth prize came in the category of…
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The Greensboro Four, 50 Years Later
The image of the Greensboro Four is frozen in American history, four young men sitting quietly at the lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960—politely asking to be served and being refused because they are black. There had been sit-ins before, but the headlines generated by the simple…
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Buckwheat’s Black History Month Tour
is a former columnist for TIME magazine and a regular contributor to The Root.
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Michelle Obama’s Healthy Food Campaign
The White House Kitchen Garden is frozen under, but, this Black History Month, first lady Michelle Obama is once more using food to address the epidemic of childhood obesity that has gripped the country and, she said in a recent speech to the United States’ Conference on Mayors, “never fails to take my breath away.”…