Why the Black Internet Believes Grammys Just Threw Shade at Beyoncé
Proof The ‘Absent Black Father’ Was a Big Lie
Jay-Z’s Daughter Rumi Carter Throws Up the Roc Nation Sign On Stage, Sparking Insane Illuminati Theories
Black Musicians Who Were Targeted By The FBI and Other Law Enforcement
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Sunday Supper: The Week in Review
MONDAY AP: Sri Lankan Civilians Stay in War Zone Despite Lull ABC: Face Transplant Patient Doing Well; No Longer Responds to “Michael Steele” BBC: Obama to Lift Cuba Restrictions; Lovers of Freedom Hate This, Not Sure Why JJ: An Anti-Gay Marriage Commercial Parody CK: Watch the White House Easter Egg Roll; No, It’s Not a…
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Argh! Pirates and the Caribbean
If you’re running a Latin American country that has fallen out with the U.S. in recent years, or you’re the premier of a Caribbean island nation whose principal exports are tax shelters and LisaRaye, you better come with your “A” game when you meet with President Barack Obama at the Fifth Summit of the Americas.…
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10 Questions About Bo
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” His American Kennel Club registered name is Amigos New Hope. That sounds suspicious from the jump. Amigos and Hope in the same breath? Captions by Denise Stewart Reports say the dog is now at his…
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Department of Nine Lives: Kerry Makes Moves for Peace in Sudan
2004 electoral flameout notwithstanding, Senator John Kerry deserves credit for picking himself up, dusting himself off, and throwing himself into international foreign political issues with the zeal of someone plotting a future run for president. Since losing to George W. Bush, the former soldier has tackled countless unglamorous but important issues that could otherwise be…
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Why We Should Indict the Memo Writers
In an ideal world, law and politics go together like peanut butter and jelly. But on the occasions when they don’t, things can get a little sticky. Enter President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, as they release memos in which lawyers for the Department of Justice under President Bush counseled CIA interrogators to engage…
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Africans Still Trumping American Blacks
In 2004 Dr. Henry Louis Gates insisted that African and Caribbean immigrants as well as bi-racial students were trumping American Blacks in numbers at top-ranked universities. In 2008 I blogged extensively about my experience within the Afropolitan culture, the social/intellectual circle where Africans [from abroad and second-generation] mingle and organic global consciousness is commonplace. My…
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Shrunken ‘Violet’
Movies based on real-life events or people tend to sink or soar based on the level of dramatic imagination injected into the true story; that is the creative element that burnishes details and streamlines the narrative to reveal the complexities that make a story worth telling. Think A Beautiful Mind or The Hurricane or even…
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Playoff Fatigue
David Halberstam wrote many great—and long—books, most notably Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made, but my favorite of these is The Breaks of the Game. He spends the 1979-80 season with the Portland Trail Blazers. The glow of their legendary 1977 title team had just faded, and what was left was…
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American Violet
Conservatives have this much right: It’s remarkable how much havoc poorly made public policy can wreak. Way back in 1986, when a Democratic Congress hastily and overwhelmingly passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act—the first step in stacking judicial power in the hands of prosecutors rather than judges and juries—members likely never imagined it would set in…