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Barack Is Not Spock
Barack is not Spock. I’ve heard so much rhapsodizing recently about the obvious kinship of the “mixed-race” marvels that I had to set the record straight. I saw “Star Trek” last weekend. Good film, but when the Vulcan commander strolled across the bridge of the Enterprise, I was not reminded of the president. Others have…
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President Obama Talks Faith, Makes Nice with Abortion Opponents at Notre Dame
President Barack Obama spoke at the 164th commencement at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana this weekend. The speech was freighted with political controversy, primarily because Notre Dame is affiliated with the Catholic Church, which uniformly opposes the abortion rights and protections that the president supports. These weeks of tension leading up to the…
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Obama’s Health Watchdog—Visionary or Bully?
The White House announced this morning that it has tapped NYC Health Commissioner Tom Frieden to run the overworked, underfunded U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a bolder, potentially more consequential choice than it appears to those not familiar with Dr. Frieden. In his seven years as our city’s top doc, the man…
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The Root's Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Wins Prestigious Public Television Award
Henry Louis Gates, Jr,. editor of THE ROOT, has been awarded the 2009 Ralph Lowell Award, public television’s most prestigious honor. Announced today by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Lowell Award is intended to celebrate an individual’s outstanding accomplishments and lifelong contributions to the development of public broadcasting. Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of…
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Tattoo Therapy
The American auto industry continues to fall by the wayside, the stock market remains as volatile as ever, and the real estate market, well, it’s about on par with Chris Brown’s career. But, there is one industry currently that’s still in the black. In fact, it’s also in the red, green, yellow, and any color…
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Former NPR Host Farai Chideya Kisses the Sky
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Farai Chideya, the former host of NPR’s “News and Notes,” remixes the badass trifecta in her debut novel “Kiss the Sky,” a tale of a former rock star whose constant search for happiness in all the wrong places brings her to discover the power within.Chideya opened up to Books…
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M.I.A.'s Latest Hit: Save Sri Lanka
On The Tavis Smiley Show recently, British-Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A turned the much-needed spotlight onto the troubles in her native country. She described the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka as “genocide.” And said her own minority Tamil community was getting little public sympathy for their plight because the Bush administration had labeled them as “terrorists.”…
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The Case of the Black Vulcan
Teresa Wiltz has written a great review for THE ROOT of the new Star Trek prequel. Having never, ever, seen an episode of Star Trek, I surely annoyed my theater companions, when I would ask, persistently: “Are we supposed to know that person?” But I will say that before long, nothing was lost on me,…
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Zuma Rising
On Saturday, South Africa will roll out its red carpet and put on the dog, as only it can. If the past is anything to go by, there will be plenty of pageantry and poetry and a few staid speeches as big planes fly in salute over the old Union Buildings in Pretoria. It will…
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Promises Kept
And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under…