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The Root Interview: Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def on 'Free Man of Color'
Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def first performed together in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway production of Topdog/Underdog, then followed that success with the film Cadillac Records, in 2008. Now they’re together again in playwright John Guare’s A Free Man of Color, which opened Thursday at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City. It runs…
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Waiting While Black?
On Oct. 30, when thousands were gathered in Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, Dori Maynard faced a moment of insanity. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, was thrown out of a Hampton Inn in the nation’s capital for reasons that are still unexplained. In a recent…
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NPR Confronts Fallout From Williams Affair
NPR’s board of directors has approved hiring a law firm to review the network’s handling of the termination of Juan Williams’ contract, and the network has taken steps to address concerns raised by journalists of color. NPR has hired a second African American on-air reporter, Alex P. Kellogg of the Wall Street Journal, plans to make up for…
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Newspapers' Last Black Sports Editor Leaving
Milwaukee’s Garry D. Howard to Lead Sporting News Garry D. Howard of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the last remaining African American editing the sports section of a mainstream daily newspaper, is leaving in December to become editor-in-chief of the weekly Sporting News. “We thank him for his dedication, enthusiasm and passion for exceptional journalism,” Martin…
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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…