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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'An Accident of Time and Place'
I would like to applaud President Obama for bringing Sergeant Crowley, me and our families together. I would also like to thank the President for welcoming my father, Henry Louis Gates, Sr., who for most of his life has been a Republican! My dad turned 96 this past June, and the fact that he worked…
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The White House Beerfest Gallery
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley. The White House Rose Garden. A light drink and snacks on the White House Rose Garden. The beer selections (from left to right) of Sgt. James…
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Beer Goggles: The Lessons of Skip Gates' Arrest
In honor of the reconciliatory beer being shared tonight at the White House, between president Barack Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr, and Cambridge police Sergeant Joseph Crowley, it’s worth revisiting, however briefly, discussion of the larger issues raised by the arrest. I appeared on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show to discuss racial profiling and race…
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Glenn Beck's Falling Down
Glenn Beck has been flying off the rail for years now, but you can forgive him for calling Obama a racist. He sees… BLACK PEOPLE. He isn’t a lot different than some othe white people you know who have been able to basically ignore black people all their lives. They know black people, they may…
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Mansion of DC Arts Patron Burns
From The Washington Post: Fire gutted the Chain Bridge Road mansion and extensive art collection of longtime D.C. arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz late Wednesday, and officials said low water pressure slowed firefighters’ efforts to contain the blaze. It took almost two hours to find a sustained stream of water strong enough to fight the…
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EBT For You And For Me
I previously wrote about middle class families succumbing to the use of food stamps in order to avoid starvation. As it turns out, stores that accept EBT say business is booming. In its third-quarter earnings report, Family Dollar cited EBT as among the reasons for its success in this economy. Same-store sales were up 6.2%…
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She's Focused, Man…
From the NY Times: On weekends, the subway and bus trip can take two and a half hours — each way, that is. Alexis Page, 13, is pursuing her sport, her art, from uptown Manhattan to the outer fringes of Brooklyn. Millions of hopeful American youths ride to practice in team vans or their parents’…
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NYC Homeless Provided with One-Way Ticket Out
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of NYC has a solution to the city’s homeless problem. He wants to provide a one-way ticket out. He wants to send those worrisome, burdensome people who are victims of unaffordable housing, mental illness and the like, out of the city by any means necessary. I’m talking train, plane or bus and…
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VIDEO: Joe Jackson Confirms MJ's Love Child in Interview
In an interview airing tonight on TV One, Joe Jackson sits down with Smokey Fontaine and, in the preview below, confirms that Omer Bhatti is Michael Jackson’s son. Joe Jackson, you are…something else.
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What about Shem?
From Elon James White at This Week in Blackness: “Shem Walker? Who the heck is Shem Walker?” That was the response a friend had when I brought up the name of the recently murdered Brooklynite. I will admit that I would have LOVED to stand on my higher-than-thou step stool and wag my finger at…