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President Obama Tries "Straight Talk" in NYTimes
President Obama has held seven town halls this summer and one lengthy primetime press conference in service of his plan to bring affordable health care coverage to every American. The charm offensive doesn’t seem to be going the president’s way—and may even have watered down his brand—but the White House seems to think their strategy…
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Have You Driven Obama Lately?
In a recent article for NEW YORK, Jennifer Senior discusses new media rock star, President Barack Obama, and the sheer volume of information that the White House delivers and the media culture that facilitates our insatiable appetite for it. Writes Senior: [H]e’s the first president who has grasped the possibilities of today’s high-velocity, high-density, highly…
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Michael Jackson's Birthday Bash!
UPDATE: Click here for the flyer and information about the 2010 bash! You could say that Spike Lee always had a special connection to Michael Jackson: They were born a year apart, both to musical families. Back in the day, every Saturday morning, Lee, like many other black kids across the country, sat down in…
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Fired & Fronting
For many who have always been successful, suddenly being told, “Don’t you come ‘round no more” is probably a very traumatic experience. Yet instead of taking that bad news and using it to fuel a plan to start anew, many laid off workers are more focused on acting as if nothing ever happened. For many…
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Damon Weaver Interviews President Barack Obama
When I ran into Damon Weaver in the Marriott lobby, standing tall, he looked me directly in the eye and shook my hand. His composure and professionalism outshined teenagers and college students whom I know. And before he jetted back to Florida on Friday, Damon sat down with The Root for an exclusive interview. Watch.…
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Vick’s an Eagle! Say What?
I had a scenario in my head for what Michael Vick’s return to football, following a two-season absence would look like. I figured the former Atlanta Falcons QB—after spending 18 months behind bars for dog fighting—would serve a portion of his current six-game suspension while remaining unsigned by an NFL team. Then about a month…
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Entering 'District 9'
District 9 is the antidote to the cynical, CGI-obsessed, P.T. Barnum-esque schlock that passes for sci-fi filmmaking these days, films in which people and plot matter little in the service of razzle-dazzle special effects and things that go boom in the night. (Yes, Michael Bay, I’m talking to you. Go forth and “Transform” no more.)…
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Abercrombie & An Auction Block
Abercrombie & Fitch is in the news again. Their quarterly sales have come in and it doesn’t look good. The clothing store refuses to lower their prices during the recession and folks aren’t shopping there. But that’s not the news I’m talking about. I’m talking about a semi-nude black man, an auction block and dozens…
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Mr. President, You Have Some 'Splainin' to Do…
From the Huffington Post: A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week. The memo, which according to a knowledgeable health care lobbyist was prepared by a person directly…