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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CNN: Black Men and Mental Health
Let me set the record straight. I am an advocate for spiritual and mental well-being. I will do anything in my power to help Black men look at themselves, recognize the spiritual and emotional potential, and create healthier lifestyles. Ask ANY of my friends. Last night CNN’S Black in America 2 touched on a very…
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Tiger's Turnberry?
Tiger Woods is better than you think he is, or let me put this another way: if you think Tiger Woods is one of the best golfers of all time then you are selling him short. That sentence doesn’t need the gentle qualifier, “one of.” Shortly before Woods’ injury last year, Sal Johnson of Golf…
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…And So Began the Health Care War…
From The AP: “House Democrats are preparing to advance legislation that would deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to remake the nation’s costly health care system and cover some 50 million uninsured. On the heels of the Senate health committee’s approval Wednesday of a plan to revamp U.S. health care, three House committees with jurisdiction…
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Black to the Future?
A 100th birthday is a terrible thing to waste. Mindful of that fact, the NAACP has embarked on an all out celebration at its centennial conference in New York. It has attracted almost 2,500 delegates, including Gen. Colin Powell and Attorney General Eric Holder. President Barack Obama will also address the gathering. In all likelihood,…
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The Root and Black Web 2.0 Review 'Black in America 2'
Are we living in a post-racial America? What does being black in America mean today? Join The Root staff and readers as we screen CNN’s “Black in America 2” and host an interactive panel discussion where 20-something professionals in politics, law and medicine respond to your questions and reactions from the show. The Root and…
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NAACP: Now What?
The NAACP has done alot of good, but I’m not confident that they have a useful purpose going forward. As I said on CNN the other night, the NAACP has some challenges with focusing. They seem to want to tackle everything at once, which ends up with them not tacling anything thoroughly. They boycott N-words…
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Health Reform Rises from the Dead
For those of us who questioned how hard the White House and its congressional allies would fight for health care reform, the answer is here. The devil remains in the details, of course, but in the last couple of days Barack Obama has put Republicans and conservative Democrats alike “on notice”: Get on board or…
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Swagga Goes International
Is Jay-Z George Bush? SLATE sister site FOREIGN POLICY recently compared hip hop to geostrategy. Mark Lynch takes on the recent back-and-forth between rapper Jay-Z and less successful (though still famous) MCs like The Game, Nas, and 50 Cent, using Jay-Z’s diss tracks, and his responses to those of others, to form a crudish theory…
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VIDEO: Michael Jackson Pepsi Accident Footage
People have often joked about this incident and when you hear the story it is kind of funny. A famous singer’s Jheri curl going up in flames. That’s sketch-worthy. When you see the footage, it’s decidedly less funny. The Pepsi commercial
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Now I'm Pissed
I am not easily angered. But as I watched the second day of confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, I grew closer and closer to the stereotype. Angry-black-woman syndrome—hard to get along with, excitable, overly aggressive, difficult, a bully and a badgerer—began to set in. The subject of my ire? The unbelievably condescending questioning by…