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Cory Booker: Super Bowl Is Not in New York
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is tired of people getting their geography of New York and New Jersey mixed up when covering the Super Bowl, Politico reports. Although the MetLife Stadium, which will host this year’s NFL championship, is home to the New York Giants and the New York Jets, it is, in fact, located in…
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Mitt Romney: Putin a Better President Than Obama
Mitt Romney appears to be a sore loser. The failed 2012 Republican presidential candidate told NBC News that he thinks Russian leader Vladmir Putin has outperformed Obama “time and time again on the world stage.” During the interview, he described the U.S. and Russia as “geopolitical adversaries,” hitting Putin for giving cover to Syrian President…
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Jamaican Bobsled Team Needs $80,000 After Qualifying for Sochi Olympics
The Jamaican bobsled team may be headed to another Olympics, the Associated Press reports. But before they can hit the ice to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the two-man team needs to raise at least $80,000 to pay for travel and equipment, the article says. “Right now,” sled driver Winston Watts told the…
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Obama Includes LGBT Athletes in Olympic Delegation
Renowned tennis player Billie Jean King and hockey player Caitlin Cahow are the two openly gay athletes whom President Barack Obama has selected to be part of the U.S. delegation for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, sending a clear message to that country about its treatment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and…
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Jesse Owens’ Gold Medal Fetches Record Price
A 1936 Olympics gold medal won by Jesse Owens sold for $1,466,574 early Sunday morning, the highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympics memorabilia, ESPN reports. Owens won the gold medal at the games in Berlin and later gifted it to his good friend, entertainer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who died in 1949. The…
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Why Blacks Loved John F. Kennedy
<a href=”http://mije.org/node/8141/#JFK”>Journalists Shared in Determined Hope of the Era Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on “Fox News Sunday.” Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, “despite the thinness of the record…
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World Champion Gymnast Focuses on Talent, Not Racism
For world champion gymnast Simone Biles, her talent has become her job. “When I’m healthy, I go to the gym from 9 to 6:30 p.m. and train twice, from 9 to 12 and 2:30 to 6:30, so seven hours a day,” Simone tells The Root in an airy, petite voice from Spring, Texas. “I do…
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Usain Bolt Talks McNuggets in Memoir
When you are the fastest man on the planet, you can eat whatever you want — even boatloads of McDonald’s chicken nuggets. Usain Bolt revealed in a newly published memoir that during his two-week stay in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics, he consumed roughly 1,000 chicken nuggets, according to excerpts published by the New York…
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Obama Hosts Meetings With Columnists
Obama Likes “Bull Sessions” With Columnists Handful of Black Journalists Have Participated Even as the Obama administration is being criticized as the “most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” in the words of David E. Sanger of the New York Times, President Obama himself is increasingly talking at length in off-the-record sessions with small…
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Olympic 'Black Power' Salute Occurred 45 Years Ago Today
U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos ignited controversy when they bowed their heads and raised black-gloved fists in the “black power” salute during the Olympic medal ceremony Oct. 16, 1968, in Mexico City. While some viewed them as heroes, in the eyes of some they represented a scourge on America. The men were suspended…