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You Said It: The Root's Comment Roundup
Lauren is a former Deputy Editor of The Root. Ndoro on Pat Buchanan Offers Solution to Black Unemployment: “It’s a simple answer: black entrepreneurship. The more businesses we own, the more of our own people we’ll employ. The main reason for the disparity between black and white incomes is the percentage of white people that…
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Good News About Black Progress
It is perhaps inevitable that the kind of news that sticks with us most is the kind that makes you go, “Now it’s on!” or “Wouldn’t you know?” But the good news is important, too, and not just because it’s sweet to look on the bright side, but because good news teaches us crucial things…
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Black Businesses Grew at 3 Times the National Rate
Between 2002 and 2007, the number of black-owned businesses in the United States increased by 61 percent to 1.9 million. It was a growth rate more than triple the 18 percent rate for all businesses. Black-owned firms also saw their receipts rise 55 percent to $137.5 billion during those years. It is a great snapshot…
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Forget Tiger Moms; All Hail the Lioness Mom
Over the past few weeks, Amy Chua, author of the polarizing new parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has clawed her way to the top of best-seller lists. And the backlash has been in hot pursuit as thousands of angry journalists, bloggers and parents have decried her take-no-prisoners parenting strategies, calling her abusive,…
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Charlotte, N.C., Hotel Cancels Contract With White-Supremacist Group
A white-supremacist group is hopping mad that a Charlotte, N.C., hotel canceled its contract with the controversial group. Politics Daily reports that on Monday, on a plaza in front of the Government Center, Jared Taylor exercised his First Amendment right to free speech to insist that very right had been violated by city officials. Taylor…
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Video: Maryland Bank-Robbery Suspect Slips on Ice During Botched Escape
Fresh from our “Dumb Criminals” file, the Washington Post is reporting that a man was fatally shot by police Friday morning after he attempted to rob a Capital One bank in Takoma Park, Md., authorities said. Three people were also injured. The man, who was trying to escape with a hostage, slipped on ice, dropping…
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George W. Bush Is Over Politics
In an interview set to air on Sunday, former President George W. Bush told C-SPAN that his political career is a wrap — not just as a candidate, but as a fundraiser and public critic, too. Could it be that Michele Bachmann’s recent camera confusion and historical blunders reminded him of how rough the press…
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Striking a Balance on the National Debt
Just about everyone in Washington these days is busying themselves talking about America’s debt, plugging their ideas as the surefire solution to trim the deficit. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama offered belt-tightening proposals based on the recommendations of his bipartisan fiscal commission. Last week, House Republicans introduced a bill to sharply…
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History's Lost Black Towns
Founded in 1738, Fort Mose, located just north of St. Augustine, is the United States’ first free black settlement. Amid the fight for control of the New World, Great Britain, Spain and other European nations relied on African slave labor. The king of Spain issued an edict: Any male slave of the British colonies who…
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Can Corporations Blush From Embarrassment?
Flush from the Supreme Court’s expansive reading (pdf) last term of corporate personhood in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to include the First Amendment right to contribute to federal elections, and free from even the fairly modest restrictions in the McCain-Feingold campaign-financing law, corporations are now seeking to expand their rights of personhood to…