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Summer Reading: Best of the Beltway
As the days get longer and voters turn up the heat on our national leaders, Washington becomes the setting for most of the nonfiction work listed here, at least it’s where many of the authors make their livings. The election of Barack Obama was a shot in the arm to the book industry, and it…
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How Real Estate Became the New Volunteer Slavery
”Real estate is the working man’s only path to financial security.” —My friend Sam No bank in their right mind would give us the loan. But it was 2005, top of the Florida housing bubble, and banks were freely handing out dice to commoners. The historic West Palm Beach home had a plaster relief sculpture…
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Remembering Black Soldiers in Films
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. From film mastermind George Lucas, 2012’s Red Tails pays homage to the Tuskegee Airmen. Lucas, who started conceptualizing Red Tails more than 20 years earlier, sought to offer filmgoers a lesson in history without sparing the in-your-face special effectst hat come with Lucasfilm movies.…
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The Hotbed That Produced Obama
Barack Obama took the oath of office as a United States senator on January 4, 2005, and promptly began running for president. Very quickly, he began using the peculiar kind of celebrity that comes with being a senator to introduce himself to Washington, to a new generation of political power brokers, and, more broadly, to…
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Richard Prince's Book Roundup
Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: Compelling Nonfiction After 44 years behind bars, the nation’s most famous prison journalist tells his story. A black journalist reaches the highest reaches of the New York Times newsroom, only to topple in a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions. Women examine their multifaceted status in 21st century journalism. Now it can be…
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My Friend's Weight-Loss Surgery is Wednesday
My friend Rachel* is having gastric bypass surgery in Charlotte on Wednesday. I’m both happy and concerned for her. I’m happy she’ll finally be able lose all the weight she wants. I’m scared because of possible complications, even though her quality of life should increase dramatically soon after. There are a lot of stats out…
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Lena Horne Was a Friend to the Press
The late CBS correspondent Ed Bradley was fond of saying, “When I get to the pearly gates and St. Peter asks what have I done to gain entry, I’ll say, `Have you seen my Lena Horne interview?’ “ In that classic 1981 piece for “60 Minutes” [video], “he got the legendary performer to candidly discuss…
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Today in Postracialism: 32 Black Republicans Running for Congress
In the largest such black Republican surge since Reconstruction, 32 hopefuls are on the ballot for this fall’s congressional elections: The House has not had a black Republican since 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left after eight years. But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of…
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Taking a Costly Stand on Arizona
When Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the nation’s toughest immigration law, Arizona Senate Bill 1070, it instantly put the nation’s oldest African-American college fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc., in a tough spot. With their national convention scheduled to take place this July in Phoenix, Alpha Phi Alpha General President Herman “Skip” Mason and its board…
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VIDEO: Watch Obama at White House Correspondents' Dinner
President Barack Obama brought it at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner last night in Washington, DC. All bets are off in the roast-like atmosphere of the annual black-tie shindig attended by thousands of political and media elites. Watch the video in two parts, below: PART 1 PART 2 To watch the entire address at…