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Trying to Be Post-Racial
I tried to be very post-racial this weekend. It didn’t take. Let me explain. The saga of Shirley Sherrod that mesmerized the country stopped me in my tracks. I covered it as a writer. I lived it as an American, an African American. This latest attempt to start a national conversation on race ended as…
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Journal-isms: More Illegal Immigrants Die Crossing into the U.S. Than U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
“The article was largely buried in most newspapers, if run at all,” columnist Edward Schumacher-Matos wrote Thursday for the Washington Post Writers Group. “So many bodies of unauthorized migrants are being found in the Arizona desert this month, the Associated Press reported, that the Pima County Medical Examiner was stacking them like boxes of fish…
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Sherrod Debacle: Will Media Feel Backlash?
The firing of Agriculture Department staffer Shirley Sherrod — over racial remarks that were taken out of context — raises judgment questions not only about the Obama administration and the NAACP, whose president is a former journalist, but about the news media. “This whole saga confirms, as if it needed confirmation,” veteran journalist Paul Delaney…
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Gel Might Help Arm Women Against HIV and Herpes
This report was provided to The Root by the Black AIDS Institute‘s media delegation to the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna, Austria. The writer, Linda Villarosa, is a member of that delegation and a regular contributor to The Root. In a groundbreaking study, a gel made using an antiretroviral drug was found to be effective…
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It's Never Too Late To Honor a Fallen Hero
by Col. Charles D. Allen An evening TV news broadcast caught my attention this week and since then I have followed the reports of the death of Vernon Baker. Mr. Baker, an African American who served in World War II in the segregated units of the U.S. Army, died after 90 years of very full…
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Drawing the Line for the Tea Party
I regularly receive e-mails from the Tea Party movement. Sometimes I delete them, but mostly I read them. They’re interesting. Here’s a sample of some of the statements contained in the Tea Party e-mails I’ve received: The Army of Darkness will not be defeated easily; they lust for control of our beloved Nation. The guy…
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Latest Blood Test Results: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
My latest blood test results were a bit disappointing. I saw Dr. Bean Thursday, and he was almost giddy about my weight loss thus far. When I told him I’d hoped to have lost more than 30 pounds, he very seriously told me that a half-pound a week should be my goal for long-term weight…
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Your Take: Are All Abortions Equal?
A few days ago, writer Cord Jefferson posted an article at The Root provocatively titled, ”But What if I Don’t Want to Be a Dad?” In the article, he posits the concept of giving fathers the choice of a ”financial abortion.” In the decade or so that I have been doing fatherhood work, I have…
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In the Aftermath of the Oscar Grant Verdict: What Now?
“My son was murdered. He was murdered,” Wanda Johnson said repeatedly, forcefully, as she spoke out against the verdict in the trial against former transit officer Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter but acquitted of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter in the videotaped shooting death of her unarmed son, Oscar Grant. A Los…
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Confessions of a Scale Slave: 9 Volts of Anguish
My scale’s on the fritz and I am freaking out. It uses a 9-volt battery, and there aren’t any in the house, so I went to the corner store, and there weren’t any on the big battery thingie. WHY? How many people need 9-volt batteries? Those are for, like, Ice Age devices. I don’t know…