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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Studying War Some More
The Hurt Locker is not a great war film. It doesn’t glorify combat or condemn battle. It does not try to explain why conflict exists. It does not salute the dead or mourn their deaths. It’s an explosive and honest rendering of what happens in war zones. The film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, focuses on…
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Audio: Michael Wasn't a Pioneer of Everything
From NPR: “It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white” may have been one of Michael Jackson most famous musical lines, but since his death, it still seems to matter to many of his fans. The late King of Pop claimed he suffered from vitiligo, a skin disease that causes depigmentation, resulting in patches of…
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African Rogues and Royalty
Covers the White House and Washington for The Root. Follow her on Twitter. Since 1989, Omar Al-Bashir has become one of the most despised figures in African and international civil society. His regime is believed to have perpetuated and inflamed the Darfur genocide, which has terrorized, killed or displaced millions of black Africans. Bashir also…
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Dining Without the Dictator
Barack Obama and his family will touch down in Accra, Ghana this weekend, and while it’s significant that Obama comes to Africa as the first American president of African descent, the trip will have none of that Return-to-the-Motherland feel, in part because he’s already done that (see Dreams from My Father). Nor will it produce…
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At Some Pools, Still Waters Run Deep
From Melissa Harris-Lacewell at The Nation: “For my daughter the moment came in kindergarten. Even though she was the only African American girl in her classroom, she made friends easily, adored her teacher, and was growing in confidence as a student. Then in May, just a few weeks from the year’s end it happened. She…
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Opinion: Soledad O'Brien Isn't Why 'Black in America' Catches a FAIL
From The Retort: “It’s easy to blame the messenger. When it came to CNN’s Black In America this was no exception. Correspondent Soledad O’Brien received her fair share of shame and blame for how the documentary turned out. She was the most visible symbol, the most accessible face and the easiest target. But did she…
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Young, Gifted and Slack
Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t using the title “Reverend” yet, but that could be her next move. She’s well on her way to becoming a conservative Rev. Al Sharpton in whiteface. At least she’s not known as “Sarah the Fisherman.” (Unless she forgets to take down the “Gone Fishin’” sticky note on her office door in…
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Hate Your Job? Too Bad!
Anyone else find themselves on the receiving end of angry vent sessions fueled by work-related frustration? From rants about annoying bosses to jokes that they’re going to need bail money once they explode in the office, I hear more people shouting, “I hate my job!” with each passing day. Indeed, according to a survey from…
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Man Dies at Chocolate Factory
From CNN: “An employee at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died Wednesday after falling into a vat of hot chocolate, according to a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor’s office. Vincent Smith II, 29, was dumping raw chocolate into the vat for melting when he fell in from a nine-foot high platform. He suffered…
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Before Obama, Google Gets to Africa
Hours before president Obama touches down in Ghana, good news for Africa and Web 2.0: (Via the Stimulist) Google’s mission is well-known by this point: to organize the world’s information. But now Google is focusing on making sure that the world includes Africa. Many of their search functions to this point have been available to…