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GALLERY: Overseas Sensations
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. The model, actress, dancer and singer Cassie Ventura may be known better for her rumored relationship with P. Diddy than for her debut album Cassie. The album had one popular single, but poor album sales and harsh critiques of her live performances…
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A Father's Fantasy: What Would Dad Really, Really Like?
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Does Dad need a new home? The largest one-family home in America is being built in Florida. Of course, you need $75 million to pay for it. The owner, who made his money in time shares, doesn’t want the 13-bedroom, 23-bath, 90,000-square-foot…
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Atlanta and the Powers That Be
When I moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta in 1994, a good friend and colleague told me that I would love the city. ”You’re going to love it here,” he said. ”Just remember one thing. When you leave [the city limits of] Atlanta, you’re in Georgia.” He was right on both counts. I did love…
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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…