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Better Than Sears: Annie Liebovitz Snaps First Family Portrait
The world-renowned photographer took a photograph of Malia, Sasha, Michelle and Barack Obama in the Green Room of the White House. From Newsweek: The famed photographer, in the headlines lately for drama over her personal finances, shot the official Obama family portrait, which was posted on the White House’s Flickr account this morning. Leibovitz has…
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Listen Up! Olympic Concerns Raised by Rio Violence
Recent violence in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas have raised security concerns for the 2016 Olympic Games. From NPR: Just weeks after Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Olympics, a deadly outburst of violence descended on the Brazilian city. Warring drug gangs left two dozen people dead, including three police officers whose helicopter was shot…
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Sexual Orientation Added to Hate Crime List, Awaits Obama's OK
Attacking an individual based on his or her sexual orientation has been added to the list of hate crimes by the Senate and now awaits President Obama’s signature. From CNN: The bill is named for Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming teenager who died after being kidnapped and severely beaten in October 1998, and James Byrd…
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Yes, Black Women Play Lacrosse
During my sophomore and junior years of college, I woke up each day for a 6 a.m. lacrosse practice that had no coach. In a typical lacrosse game, there are 12 players from each team on the field. Our first game last season, there were only nine of us. Once, in the heat of battle,…
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"Whitopia" and the Subliminal Joy of Target
I’ve taken on the concept of “white flight” on the internet, but the question of how and why individuals segregate themselves in real life is far more interesting to me. When it comes to conurbation, the racial and class-based variables are literally endless. Aaron Renn, aka Urbanophile, writes provocatively at New Geography about the phenomenon…
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Losing Isiah: Thomas Salty with Magic Memoir
Uh oh. A few hoops legends are at odds over a book. Isiah Thomas feels betrayed by Magic Johnson’s various accusation in the soon-to-be released “When the Game Was Ours”, a memoir written by he and Larry Bird documenting the rivalry between the Celtics, Lakers and Pistons during the 1980s. In the book, Johnson alleges…
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I Heart Hillman: A Visual History of HBCUs On-Screen
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. A Different World was a world that many in the African-American community had been born and bred to be apart of—the microcosm that is the black college. Before Bill Cosby’s brain child became a hit, mainstream America hadn’t seen the black community’s diversity…
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Black Men and Sexual Harassment
I read this account comparing and contrasting the handling of two different ESPN talents with great interests. On the one hand, a brother seems to have been fired to merely hugging a female co-worker, but Steve Phillips, a white talent, was only suspended for diddling around with an underling. I don’t like looking at things…
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Weezy F. Baby May Spend Quiet Time Up North
Even Mr. Carter didn’t say “Skate, Wayne!” on this one. Rapper Lil’ Wayne pleaded guilty today to weapons’ charges stemming from a search of his tour bus following a show in New York City in 2007. There is supposedly credible DNA evidence linking him to the firearm—though attorneys are still battling over the veracity of…
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Listen Up! Swine Flu Lives Longer Than Expected
In a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found that those who contract the H1N1 virus may still be contagious 24 hours after their fever symptoms have cleared up. Their findings are based off a study conducted at the US Air Force Academy on newly-arrived cadets who contracted the illness…