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Gel Might Help Arm Women Against HIV and Herpes
This report was provided to The Root by the Black AIDS Institute‘s media delegation to the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna, Austria. The writer, Linda Villarosa, is a member of that delegation and a regular contributor to The Root. In a groundbreaking study, a gel made using an antiretroviral drug was found to be effective…
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Who's Afraid of a Little AIDS Vaccine?
Researchers announced earlier this month that a new discovery may pave the way to developing a viable AIDS vaccine. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered two potent human antibodies that can stop more than 90 percent of HIV strains from infecting human cells. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the NIH, told the…
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Why the Media Aren't Giving Obama Credit
Even Journalists Raise Questions After Latest Victory “I’ve been scratching my head over this for the past year: Does President Obama get credit for the things he does right?” media writer Howard Kurtz wrote for the Washington Post on Friday. “We all know about the things he does wrong, because the media have made that…
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Of Course There Are Black Serial Killers
When 57-year-old Lonnie Franklin Jr. was charged with 10 murders in the grisly Los Angeles “Grim Sleeper” case last week, it begged the question — at least in my mind — about other black serial killers, because there’s a popular, media-driven perception that such crimes are usually committed by clever white men. So I set…
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Acting White, Acting Black
Republican and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, born in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Alabama, already stands out from the typical Bush-era conservative, but adding to her impressively eclectic résumé is her training as a classical concert pianist. No matter what talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey says (or does), her legion of mostly white female fans hang…
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Behind Uganda's World Cup Terror Blasts
Watching the World Cup finale in New York City on Sunday, conversation inevitably turned to South Africa’s performance as host. While the media had forecast terror attacks, crime waves and infrastructure disasters, football fans at the bar all agreed that South Africa deserved praise for doing Africa proud on the world stage. Sadly, the much-predicted…
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Alvin Greene Saga's Racist Undertones Plagued Father, Too
Last month, I questioned some of the motivations behind the bipartisan attacks on South Carolina Senate candidate Alvin Greene. Despite having won nearly 60 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, Greene—a less than qualified candidate, to be sure, but still the winning candidate—was immediately battered by politicians and the media alike, who insisted…
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What's Happening In Media Diversity This Week?
End of Strained Relationship Means “Sky’s the Limit” Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, who finally returned to the Philadelphia Inquirer in February after a two-year feud with his employer of 15 years, left the paper by mutual agreement on Tuesday. “I’m as happy as I’ve been for a long time,” Smith told Journal-isms on Wednesday.…
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Payrolls Drop by 125K
In case you haven’t noticed, the economic recovery that the U.S. has been hoping for is slowing. Unemployment dropped to 9.5 percent — the lowest level since July 2009 — from 9.7 percent. But the reason for the decline was that more than 650,000 people gave up on their job searches and left the labor…
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Part 1: What's Eating African-American Women?
(First of three parts.) The stats are embarrassing: African-American women are the most overweight people in the United States. Here are the numbers: 78 percent of us weigh too much, and 51 percent of that group is obese. That means four out of five us are overweight – meaning a body mass index (BMI) of…