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The Root Interview: dream hampton on 'Black August'
dream hampton first attracted attention in the ’90s when she was writing for the hip-hop bible, The Source, but what most people don’t realize is that writing was simply a diversion from hampton’s real love, film. “You can’t help how people identify you, but film was the only reason I was in New York in…
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The Root Cities: Sweet Home Chicago
In Dreams From My Father, President Barack Obama writes eloquently about why he chose to make Chicago his adult home. The city has traditionally been the political and economic capital of black America, while New York’s Harlem has held the mantle as its cultural capital. More black U.S. senators have come from Chicago than anywhere…
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Andrew Breitbart Becomes Headache for ABC
Network, Blogger Feud After Invitation to Be Part of Coverage Andrew Breitbart, the blogger who released the edited tape that made Agriculture Department manager Shirley Sherrod seem like a bigot, is causing grief for ABC News, which invited him to be part of its election night coverage. Even as Color of Change and other media…
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Rocky Mountain Low
By Jessica Dweck On Election Day, Colorado residents will determine who gets to be a person. They’ll vote on Amendment 62, which defines a person as a human being from the beginning of “biological development.” That’s code for conception. The measure would grant fertilized eggs the right to life, liberty, happiness and due process of…
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A Viral Video Attack on Single Black Women
Standards. Everyone should have them, right? Apparently not if you’re a black woman. By now, surely, you’ve seen or heard about the “Black Marriage Negotiations” video, featuring a black businesswoman negotiating her relationship terms with a black businessman in a boardroom. This particular video, one in a series of online animated clips satirizing black relationships,…
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Spurned Columnists Question Selection Process for Obama Meeting
Did White House Decide Who Represents Trotter Group? An attempt by the White House to reach out to the nation’s organization of African American columnists has resulted in anger and resentment on the part of those in the group who were ignored or, worse, disinvited. Some lost money when they made travel arrangements to Washington…
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Can Obama Stop the Afghanistan War?
When radio host Earl Caldwell put on-air questions to me on New York’s WBAI-FM Friday about the upcoming trial of five U.S. soldiers charged with the wanton killing of three Afghan civilians, I measured them against the horrors of the My Lai massacre and the widespread — and unreported — killing of hundreds, if not…
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The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment's Tuskegee Roots
On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized for a diabolical human experiment conducted in Central America 64 years ago and engineered by the U.S. government. From 1946 to 1948, scientists deliberately infected Guatemalan research subjects with syphilis to study how well penicillin worked. Sound familiar?…
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Janet Cooke's Hoax Still Resonates After 30 Years
Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the day these words appeared on the front page of the Sunday Washington Post: “Jimmy is 8 years old and a third-generation heroin addict, a precocious little boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin brown arms. “He nestles in a…
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Earning Green by Going Green
Born and raised in the ultra-polluted Suisun City, California, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins would eventually decide to make environmental justice in communities of color her life’s work. As the current CEO of Green for All, a post she took when Van Jones vacated it for the Obama administration, Ellis-Lamkins is at the forefront of the battle against…