Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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BOMB THE ROOT: The June Jordan Interview
We wanted to end our BOMB The Root series with a star, and so, we chose the late, great, June Jordan. A poet, writer, professor and opera fan—as we will learn—June Jordan was a fantastic and unique voice in African-American literature and social activism. Born to Jamaican parents in Harlem, Jordan spent her adolescent years…
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Black Americans Securing the Homeland
At a meeting in the White House to review Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253, the Situation Room was packed with major security brass: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder—as…
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A Eunice Johnson Appreciation: Around the World With Ebony Fashion Fair
No one ever called Mr. John H. Johnson’s wife by her first name. People would ask me, “What’s Mrs. Johnson’s first name?” And I would always respond, “MRS.!” When I first met Mrs. Johnson, I was a diamond in the rough; I was just coming out of a divorce, and I needed a job. Fast.…
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Gilbert Arenas Suspended Indefinitely
As you can see by Gilbert’s finger play, he was having a little fun with his recent gun troubles. NBA Commissioner David Stern wasn’t terribly amused by either and has decided to suspend the Washington Wizards guard indefinitely without pay. From ESPN Stern says in a statement Wednesday that Arenas’ actions will “ultimately result in…
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Yet Another Fowl Play
It’s week one of the new year, but ye olde stereotyping won’t drop as quickly as that ball did on midnight. It’s a shame that my first TEWW post in 2010 has to be about ANOTHER ignorant ad. Apparently, KFC’s execs didn’t get my 2009 memo to text service company KGB: Minority consumers won’t turn a blind…
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Underwear Bomber Indicted on Six Counts
The latest on the Christmas Day bombing suspect from CNN: A federal grand jury indicted Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab on charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction; attempted murder within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States; willful attempt to destroy and wreck an aircraft within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the…
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The '10 Census…1910 Census
This one from The New York Daily News doesn’t get the blood boiling so much as it just seems odd. On the 2010 Census, one of the boxes checked for race is classified as Negro. Question No. 9 on this year’s census form asks about race, with one of the answers listed as “black, African-Am.…
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Tavis Smiley Ends State of the Black Union Conference
The State of the Black Union is no more. Tavis Smiley has elected to end his State of the Black Union Conference. Smiley wishes to focus on other projects and cited new realities that change of the relevance of the decade-long conference. Smiley also said that, unlike a decade ago, black issues now are being…
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Should Harold Ford Run for Senate in New York?
Continuing the conversation on the race for 2010, here is a surprising development that wouldn’t change the Senate math for Democrats, but could start quite a fight: Encouraged by a group of influential New York Democrats, Harold Ford Jr., the former congressman from Tennessee, is weighing a bid to unseat Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in…
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Venus Wept: Booty Pop Panties
Have a long back? Wish you had a bit more “junk in the trunk”? Well, your dreams have finally come true! Booty Pop? BOOTY POP? Was this one of Alpa Chino’s other products? Let’s try to ignore for a moment the Kidz Bop tone of this commercial that would make the people responsible for the…