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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The Underwear Bomber has 287 Facebook Friends
The Washington Post does the legwork on 23 year-old Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, who—like many young people—kept a facebook page, posted on online chatrooms, and experienced conflict with family and friends. From the report: In his January 2005 posting about his loneliness, Farouk1986 wrote about the tension between his desires and his…
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Obama Acknowledges “Systemic Failure” on Terror Suspect
In his second official statement regarding the failed Christmas Day terror bombing aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, President Barack Obama acknowledged “systemic failure” in the nation’s response to this particular threat. He added that American security forces need to act quickly to fix the flaws in the system. Taking no questions,…
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The Best Year-End Review That You Don't Have To Read
For all the roundups, galleries and essays that we’ve run here on The Root, it’s never really officially the end of the year until I hear Skillz’ year-end wrap-up. Skillz, a rapper from Virginia who has released these wrap-ups since 2002, is also a ghostwriter for several rappers. At one point during all the media…
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Moralist Karl Rove Gets Second Divorce
Karl Rove’s gotten his second divorce. That ought to be his private business, to be sure. Except, once again, here’s a person who has made it his public business to police every body else’s relationships. So, I welcome a thorough, detailed examination of every aspect of Rove’s private life. Starting with his hypocrisy. Salon’s Glenn…
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Check It Out: The Paths We Tread
Since the decade’s over and just about everyone has decided we need to do better, let’s remember just what it is we need to improve upon. NewsOne has done us the favor(?) of compiling a list of…some less-than- fine, albeit amusing, web clips from the 00s. Here’s a taste
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Top 10 Hip-Hop/R&B Songs of the '00s
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” “Umbrella”? Ella ella eh. This three-minute blast of pop brilliance is the best ubiquitous single of the aughts, with Cee-Lo rocking that shower-singer warble over Danger Mouse’s warped, wicked studio alchemy. Fitting that it’s an…
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…And Now They Really Hate You, Elderick
Not that cheating on your wife is tight, but costing people money reallllllly sticks in the craw. From The New York Daily News: Tiger Woods is not the only one who blew big bucks with his image-busting cheating spree. His losses are chump change compared with the up to $12 billion that the scandal has…
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Avatar = Dances with Wolves v. 2.0?
Lots of chatter surrounding Avatar and its possible ‘benevolent white guy has an Amazing Grace moment.’ Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic brings up a Dances with Wolves parallel (after our own Teresa Wiltz had done the same a few days ago) More interesting to me is the constant comparisons with Dances With Wolves. I need…
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Jim DeMint v. Baggage Handlers
Our colleague Adam Serwer goes in on Jim DeMint over at Firedog Lake: Over the weekend, a cacophony of shrieking Republican legislators attacked the President for not treating the failed X-Mas bomber with the same gravity Cuban Missile Crisis. One2 of the more transparently craven statements made was Senator Jim DeMint’s implication that the Obama…
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Reviewing Pop Culture in the ‘00s
At the beginning of the Aughties, things looked dire for pop culture. With the decimation of the Twin Towers, we retreated into shock, making all sorts of promises we knew we couldn’t keep: Hollywood execs, declaring a desire to help in the war-on-terror effort, hovered behind closed doors at the White House. Clear Channel put…