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100 Days Worth of Fashion
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” The soon-to-be first lady looks on as Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president. The president and first lady arrive at the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. Attending the National…
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Youthful Enthusiasm
This year’s NBA playoffs provide a stern challenge to the conventional NBA wisdom that youth, sooner or later, crack under the weight of the intense media scrutiny and high fan expectations, and that the veterans will come out ahead. I’ve always doubted the conventional wisdom, and not just because it’s what I do for a…
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Channel Zero: Retuning Black TV
Word around the campfire is that Viacom has plans to bring a new BET-type station, for middle-aged adults to the airwaves. What that means in plain English remains to be seen. If TV One is any indication, it means re-runs of 70’s era sitcoms with all the shucking and jiving in HD, so now you…
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Monday's Headlines
USAT: Obama: Swine Flu ‘Not Cause for Alarm’; Vegas Takes the Under on That NYDN: Century Marks: 100 Events that Helped Shape President’s First 100 Days NYT: Putting a Pen to the Inkwell: Colson Whitehead’s ‘Sag Harbor’ CNN: Three Wounded in Hampton University Shooting AJE: Yemeni Forces Re-Take Seized Tanker WP: Bond and Jealou: NAACP, Like…
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The Swine Flu Scare
Experts say the Swine Flu is among us. Travelers home from recent trips to Mexico are concerned. Schools from Ohio to NY to Texas are closing down. How safe are we? The World Health Organization advises that this new strain of Swine Flu could become a pandemic. China has banned the import of live pig…
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100 Not So Black Days
The torrent of analysis and appraisal, hagiography and scorn leveled at Barack Obama’s first 100 days will be relatively quiet on the issue of race. That’s shocking when you consider how all-consuming the issue was during his campaign for the White House. There is a perfectly obvious explanation: The Obama presidency, which so far has…
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Returning Police Brutality to the National Agenda
It’s one of the depressing ironies of black life that in the Obama era, black mothers and fathers must continue giving their teenage sons “the talk.” I’m not talking about the birds and the bees. I’m talking about the “how to act when the police stop you” talk. Rule 1. Don’t talk back to the…
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What Happened to the Office of Urban Policy?
In November 2008, less than one week after winning the votes of city dwellers by a margin of 28 points, President-elect Barack Obama announced he would reward them by creating the first-ever “White House Office of Urban Policy.” Like other new aspects of Obama’s executive branch, appointing a city czar was intended to fast-track communications…
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I Can't Help But Cry
Even though I was incredibly nervous about life after graduation, I was excited about the possibilities. Loan dilemmas aside, I knew one could only get so much accomplished while being in a classroom day in and day out so I looked forward to post-graduate life. Unfortunately, with word that minority college graduates are being hit…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
A Buzz world premiere: The Buzzku. It’s like a haiku, but topical. Waterboarding’s bad Pulitzer’s good for the Post Earth Day Makes Black Green MONDAY USAT: +10: Columbine Survivors Remember Madness a Decade Later NYT: Prisoner Waterboarded 183 Times; CIA: “If at First You Don’t Succeed…” HP: Some Give Prez a FAIL Over CIA Treatment;…