Should Black Americans Care That Trump Is Targeting African Nations For Deportation After Years of Africans Being So Damn Disrespectful To Us?
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
Arkansas Deputy Gets His Karma After Racist Video Spreads Online
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NEWS STAND: Who Lost Abdulmuttalab? Mass Murder, European Style
Can America catch a bad guy? Any bad guy? For years, the Bush Administration was under fire for letting Osama Bin Ladin slip through its fingers. Now the Obama Administration is catching flak for failing to nail the Underwear Bomber. Driven by Republican accusations of laxity about security, the Obama Administration has gone on the…
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Seem Grimy, You'll Last Longer
Charlie Sheen is a well-documented Hollywood bad boy cum highest-paid actor in television. When news broke of his alleged abuse of his wife over Christmas, people weren’t particularly surprised or outraged. In fact, paralleling his latest dust-up with the Tiger Woods scandal, which is reasonable, though imperfect in relation. Tiger’s in trouble because he couldn’t…
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14 Science and Technology Leaders You Need to Know
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Mr. Microsoft goes to Washington, D.C. Fred Humphries, a graduate of Morehouse College, assumed the post of the Microsoft Corporation’s top lobbyist, and the title of managing director of U.S. government affairs. Humphries previously led…
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"The Nigerian Lawyered Up"
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has retained legal representation after failing to blow up flight 253 and The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb is outdone It sounds like he was singing when they first got him, and of course we now know that the government already had enough information on him to justify sending a Blackwater hit team…
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Why Stanley Crouch Is Wrong About Bette Davis
With all due respect to the incomparable Stanley Crouch, his recent assessment of the film version of Margaret Mitchell’s blockbuster 1936 novel Gone With the Windis off base. The 1939 film, which celebrated its 70th anniversary last month, is a landmark achievement in 20th-century pop culture. For me, it is right up there with Works…
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'Thriller' Named to Film Registry
The posthumous honors keep rolling in for Michael Joseph Jackson. Today, it was announced that the ‘Thriller’ video will be preserved by the Library of Congress. From The Washington Post “Thriller,” a 14-minute video promoting the song of the same name, represented a revolutionary moment in film and popular culture when it was first released…
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Top 10 Sports Triumphs of the ‘00s
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Before Super Bowl XXXIV, black quarterbacks were renowned for their athleticism, not their poise, but with one play, Steve McNair changed the stereotype. With less than 30 seconds to go, facing third down from midfield,…
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Nigeria to Buy 3-D Body Scanners for Airports
Nigeria is about to kick it into 3-D gear following Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s underwear bomb passed through security at its largest airport. From The Washington Post: LAGOS, Nigeria — A Nigerian official says the nation will purchase 3-D, full body scanners after a man passed through Nigeria’s biggest airport before trying to bring down a…
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Listen Up! New Airport Scanners Considered 'Intrusive'
Full body scanners could be nifty on the safety front, but the issue of privacy and scanner image misuse has people wondering whether or not their use at the airport security line is a good idea. From NPR: The equipment is designed to produce full-body images of airline passengers and presumably anything they might be…
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BOMB THE ROOT: The Lorenzo Pace Interview
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, sculptor, teacher, and children’s book author Lorenzo Pace is the direct descendant of slaves. His great-grandfather, Steve Pace, was kidnapped and forcefully brought to the United States in the early part of the 19th century. Addressing our shared history of human enslavement is central to Pace’s work. In 1991 the New…