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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…
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Washington's Other City
In the long shadows cast by the Capitol and the White House exists a Washington, D.C., on the outermost periphery of the power and influence that the nation’s capital represents. And within this penumbra of powerlessness and invisibility, HIV/AIDS and taken root and threatens to overwhelm and destroy entire neighborhoods. Want an OMG statistic? At…
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What's Happening In Media Diversity This Week?
End of Strained Relationship Means “Sky’s the Limit” Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, who finally returned to the Philadelphia Inquirer in February after a two-year feud with his employer of 15 years, left the paper by mutual agreement on Tuesday. “I’m as happy as I’ve been for a long time,” Smith told Journal-isms on Wednesday.…
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The Recession's Long-Term Impact on Black Kids
As adults wrestle with rising foreclosure rates and disappearing jobs, child-development experts are reporting that children may end up shouldering some of the most severe, long-lasting consequences of the recession of 2008, according to the Foundation for Child Development (FCD). Working with an index of 28 indicators of quality of life called the Overall Composite…