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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Style, Grace and Free Enterprise: Remembering Naomi Sims
She did not throw telephones or tantrums. She did not sulk in the backs of limousines, refusing to meet her public. She was never rude or snobbish. She was the personification of approachable elegance. She always remembered that somewhere, some little black girl was gazing at her in open-mouthed admiration, and she acted accordingly. Naomi…
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The Juice Still Has Shake: Court Considers Releasing Simpson
From NewsOne: A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices focused Monday on whether O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy received a fair trial in a gunpoint hotel room heist and whether the case was so unique that the two men should be freed from prison while their appeals are considered. “This is post-conviction. That’s…
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Health Care Reform: The Beach-Reader Edition
By now you surely know this much: It’s August, there’s still no health reform bill in either chamber, and that’s a political setback for Barack Obama. This scorecard is not trivial. In a democracy, the politics matter. That said, we’re talking about society-defining public policy here. How we get and pay for health care affects…
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Health Care Reform: A Minority Report
Let’s cut to the chase regarding President Barack Obama’s health care plan, or, as it’s formally called, the Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. At least three versions exist at the moment: the administration’s and those of the House and the Senate. In the days remaining until the congressional recess begins this week, they will…
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Happy Birthday, Mr. President!
This year, Barack Obama celebrates his birthday in the White House as president of the United States. But, Michelle Obama and the first kids will be hard-pressed to find the right present for the commander in chief who has everything. The Root readers recommend a few gift ideas for the POTUS as he turns the…
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Is It Time To Sue or Face Facts?
Trina Thompson earned her information technology from Monroe College in April. With an IT degree, Thompson expected to quickly find a job. She didn’t so now she’s filed suit against the school, telling the New York Post, “They have not tried hard enough to help me.” Thompson claims her school didn’t provide her with the…
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Naomi Sims, the First Black 'Supermodel', Dead at 61
From Examiner: The first African American model to grace the cover of ‘Ladies Home Journal’ has died of cancer at age 61. She has also been dubbed the first African American ‘supermodel.’ She was born in Mississippi and grew up as a foster child in Pittsburgh. Sims modeled in the late 1960s, and according to…
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Al Qaeda Offer Obama Conditional Truce
From the AP via NewsOne: Osama bin-Laden’s deputy said in a video message released Monday that the al-Qaida leader’s offers of a truce with the U.S. and Europe remained on the table, though he ridiculed President Barack Obama as “the new face of the same old crimes.” In a video posted on an Islamic militant…
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What Being 'Black in America' Really Means
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Attendees arrive at The Root and Black Web 2.0’s “Black in America 2” event. Young, black academics and professionals in the Washington area came out to Bus Boys and Poets to watch the program and participate…
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The Ayatollah: "Yay, Ahmadinejad!"; Critics: "Nah, Son. Nah."
From BBC: Senior Iranian political figures appear to have snubbed the formal endorsement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was among those not at Monday’s ceremony, state TV said. Another former president, Mohammad Khatami, was also absent, as were defeated election candidates Mir Hossein…