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Shelby Steele: The GOP Can't Win Either
Despite the cringe-inducing title of his last book, “A Bound Man: Why We’re Excited About Barack Obama and Why He Can’t Win” (out in paperback, y’all!), Shelby Steele is still being afforded the “credibility” of expressing himself on the WALL STREET JOURNAL’s opinion page. Here’s Steele’s valiant attempt to explain to the tastemakers why black…
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March Madness Hits the White House
Selection Sunday kicked off the official beginning of March Madness 2009. And that’s your attorney general, Eric Holder, holding a palm-sized basketball as he speaks with an unidentified attendee at the announcement of the White House Council on Women and Girls in the East Room of the White House last Wednesday. Any guesses as to…
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Stimulating Women?
Flanked by a cadre of beaming, successful women, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls yesterday. But the president may have to reconcile that with the fact that the centerpiece of his administration so far—the passage of the economic stimulus package—may in fact end up hurting…
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White House Doctor Gives Obama's Stem Cell Policy Extra Credit
One more unexpected and fantastic advantage to having Barack Obama overturn the Bush administration’s ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research: The stem cell research that did go on under Bush was often sponsored by private sources and benefactors. In our current economic downturn, those sources have bit hammered by losses, and might…
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Armed and Not Dangerous
Michelle Obama’s arms have been getting an inordinate amount of attention lately. It’s not unsolicited; the most modern first lady has appeared sleeveless on the covers of Vogue and People, at 10 inaugural balls, at a party for Stevie Wonder, at her husband’s address to Congress, and most recently, in her official White House portrait,…
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A Faith-Based Fix
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on A FAITH-BASED FIX with The Root’s Washington reporter Dayo Olopade. ***** The first month of Barack Obama’s presidency brought change to all parts to Washington—none more sweeping than the passage of his American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, designed to shock the U.S. economy out of its slump. A notable…
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Rooted
A nice bit of bloggage regarding Venus and Serena Williams, sport, and the perceptions of femininity and beauty from The Buzz’s sister-in-arms, Dayo Olopade, a Rootitian who moonlights over on The XX Factor at Slate. The Buzz says: Ladies, if you look like that, flaunt it and let the haters quake in fear.
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Duty Calls
It was a poor man’s State of the Union—but we are all poor now! And, like a responsible parent, President Barack Obama wouldn’t let us forget it last night. Despite the sobering tumbles of financial markets and the steady uptick in job-loss numbers, the president asked the American people and their elected leaders in Congress…
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The Media Blows it
Two distinct conversations on race have dominated this February, the first black history month with a black American president. One consisted of a steady stream of outrage over publication of a cartoon in the NEW YORK POST depicting a chimpanzee being shot to death. The other concerned a blunt and, some say, accusatory speech by…
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Visible Man
Eric Holder’s confrontational speech to members of the Justice Department on Wednesday spoke plainly and bluntly about the level of racial discourse in America. “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot,” he said, “in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially…