Tupac Associate Young Noble’s Death Illuminates Alarming Fact About Suicide Rates Among Black Men
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Recent Dissent Proves She’s Unafraid to Challenge Her Colleagues—Unlike Clarence Thomas
Black Internet is Not Trying to Hear About Skip Bayless’ ‘White Guilt’ Over ‘Sinners’
Black America Reacts To Elon Musk’s Plans to Start a Third Political Party
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Fox Orders TV Show About Layoffs – What?!?
Now this is some crazy crazy CRAZY crazy: The Fox Network is developing a reality TV series titled “Somebody’s Gotta Go”. The gimmick? Oh, this is a good one. The series will spotlight small American businesses where employees decide which one of them will be laid off. What?!? That’s some chocolate-dipped crazy. Now, I’ve got…
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The Congressional Black Caucus Goes on Spring Break with the Castros
Yesterday, key members of the Congressional Black Caucus returned from a four-day trip to Cuba, during which they met with both current President Raul Castro and his brother, longtime American nemesis Fidel Castro. Designed to gather input from Cuban ministers and officials and send a message of Obama-era outreach from the United States, the trip…
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Obama Launches First HIV Media Blitz in a Decade
The Obama administration has made quiet but significant HIV prevention news. At a White House ceremony, officials announced two new initiatives: one supporting new black leadership on AIDS, and a media blitz aiming to “refocus national attention” on the epidemic. From a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement: “In the United States, every 9…
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Wednesday's Headlines
AP: 4 Shot, 1 Dead at Korean Retreat Center in California BBC: With Death Count at 250, Aftershocks Hamper Italian Rescue BET: The Few, The Shameful: Four Marines Face Murder in Race Murder Reuters: Somali Pirates Continue to Get Their Flying Dutchman On AJE: World ‘Ignored Rwanda’; Buzz: “True. But We Talked About It A…
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Swagger a Little, Reassure a Lot
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY DOCTRINE with The Root’s David Swerdlick. ***** That irresistible beat you hear off in the distance is either the sound of an all-night discothèque in Istanbul shutting down at sunrise or the hum of Air Force One coming in for a landing as President Barack Obama—leaner, browner…
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Baseball's Brown 'Sugar'
Traditional sports movies, particularly those about baseball, are usually suffused with nostalgia and sentimentality. A few, such as Field of Dreams, do it well enough to endear themselves. Most, like the utterly ridiculous For Love of the Game, are pure treacle. But the new baseball film, Sugar (Azucar in Spanish), released to coincide with the…
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Hammerin’ Hank
When I was growing up in Chicago, my father took me to a lot of baseball games. Some were just your typical father-son outings, others were special. We might have been on our way to Wrigley Field or Comiskey Park, but in my dad’s eyes we were off to see greatness in action: Willie Mays…
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Maybe the Timeout Is Still Worth It
In a previous entry, Elena, a recent MBA recipient, wrote that based on her experiences attending graduate school won’t necessarily aid one in their job search. In fact she argued that it might do more harm than good. Though there is a growing chorus of recent advanced degree earners who share Elena’s sentiments, not everyone…
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Legalizing Gay Marriage
Vermont becomes the forth state to legalize gay marriage, and I’m oK with that, to the extent that it matters to me at all. Everyone should feel free to live and love outloud, and if having a binding contract with the state makes your love come alive, I say “go for it.” Quiet it’s kept,…
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The Brightest Idea for Illuminating the Past
The choice of design for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture may well be the highest-profile architectural decision that will be made in Washington for years to come. The five-acre plot, near the Washington Monument, is on the Mall, a civic landscape that should be considered absolutely closed to future…