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Serena Williams Is Gone in a Flash
(The Root) — Of all the possible scenarios for Serena Williams in her return to the French Open after a two-year absence, no one saw this one coming. Certainly winning wasn’t guaranteed, considering her career-long struggle to prevail on clay courts. She’s not getting any younger, either, approaching her 31st birthday in September. And health…
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Story Gives New Life to Obama Photo
Story Gives New Life to Symbolic White House Photo A 2009 photograph of President Obama bending over so a 5-year-old African American boy can touch his hair is enjoying renewed popularity after reporter Jackie Calmes recounted the story behind the image last week in the New York Times. On the day it ran, Dylan Stableford…
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Alfre Woodard Q&A
Mary C. Curtis is a Roll Call columnist and contributor to NPR and NBCBLK. She has worked at the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Charlotte Observer and Politics Daily and as a contributor to the Washington Post. She is a senior facilitator for the OpEd Project at Cornell and Yale universities. Follow her…
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Black PACs: Greeks Take Action
(The Root) — The terms “PAC,” short for “political action committee,” and “super PAC,” a reference to its mightier cousin, often conjure unsettling images of a pay-to-play electoral system: pharmaceutical-industry-backed groups that contribute thousands of dollars to members of Congress to sway legislation in their corporate interests, for example, or a staggering $10 million campaign…
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21 TV Shows We Love to Hate
Lauren is a former Deputy Editor of The Root. Most of our favorite TV shows are well worth the time investment — the acting’s good, the story’s worthwhile and the genre’s respected. But we must admit that there are some shows we record religiously on our DVRs, not because we think they’re amazing, but because…
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Public Grief of Whitney Houston's Family: Made for TV
Danielle C. Belton writes in a piece for Clutch Magazine that the antics of the singer’s family in the wake of her death are starting to look like exploitation. Before Bobbi Kristina Brown took the stage Sunday night to honor her mother, music icon Whitney Houston, during the Billboard Music Awards, stories surfaced online about…
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The Browning of America
News to Use: The Browning of America Census Milestone Eluded Most Front Pages New U.S. Census figures showing that white births are no longer a majority in the United States have implications for the news media as well as for the rest of society. The same figures pegged the “minority” population at 37 percent, a far…
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Behind the Lower Unemployment Rates
Some of the ways that we measure the economy just don’t square with our daily reality. Take the unemployment rate, announced to great fanfare each month. A lot of people think it measures the percentage of Americans who don’t have jobs. But that would be too simple. The Bureau of Labor Statistics explains the measurement…
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Real Mothers, Rare Style: Reader Photos
Submitted by Laurel Sayler: A photo of Laurel Sayler’s mother, Mary Sayler, taken around 1957. “Her style has always been classic, timeless and not too flashy,” Sayler said. Submitted by Ellisha Teapot: A photo of Teapot’s mom, Lenora Davis McKinney Clark, taken around 1952. Submitted by Robert Harcum: Harcum’s mother, Edith L. Harcum, in a high school photo…
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Obama vs. 'Automatic White Preference'
Study Finds Race Still at Issue in 2012 Campaign “After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue,” Molly McElroy wrote this week for the University of Washington. “However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have…