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Who You Calling a Bitch?
Ignoring the invention of the perm, black chicks are rarely—if ever—susceptible to magic. We don’t go up in pillars of smoke. We don’t disappear down suspect rabbit holes. And we don’t walk into coat closets, never to be heard from again. But somewhere along the journey from slave to soul sister to single lady, we…
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The Root Interview: Michael C. Martin and 'Brooklyn’s Finest'
When it comes to success, some find it through persistance and perseverance; others stumble upon it by simply being at the right place at the right time. But for Michael C. Martin, a former MTA worker, his big break came in the form of a major car crash. Martin, 30, originally from East New York,…
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Can We At Least Keep Stepping to Ourselves?
It’s the closest thing to Armageddon that many Black Greeks have seen since Laurence Fishburne’s character, Dap, ran around the fictitious Mission College campus yelling, “Wake Up!” in the classic movie, School Daze. Stepping, a bastion of black Greek life, has just undergone a revolution, and some black folks are pretty ticked off about it.…
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Health Care Summit LIVE
C-SPAN’s feed. On The Root: “Will the Health Care Summit Pay Off for Obama?”
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(Your) Black History Month Photos
Aug. 13, 1960. Press talking with Alton Yates (left), first vice president of Jacksonville, Fla.’s NAACP Youth Council, and Rodney Hurst, 16-year-old president of the Youth Council. After two weeks of demonstrating, youth council members were attacked on Aug. 27 by about 200 white males wielding ax handles and baseball bats in an underreported event called “Ax Handle Saturday.”…
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Sarah Palin Falls Back on Some Very Old Tactics
Of all the striking utterances that Sarah Palin delivered during her speech to the National Tea Party Convention on Sunday, none is more worthy of analysis than her claim that, as our president, “We need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.” The charge is puzzling on several levels—but…
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James Perry: The Man Who Wants To Run New Orleans
This weekend, voters in the New Orleans Democratic Party primary will begin the process of electing the city’s first new mayor since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The race has been heated since the beginning—now 12 candidates are vying to replace the discredited C. Ray Nagin as head of the city government. It’s a crowded…
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The Greensboro Four, 50 Years Later
The image of the Greensboro Four is frozen in American history, four young men sitting quietly at the lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960—politely asking to be served and being refused because they are black. There had been sit-ins before, but the headlines generated by the simple…
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Blacks and Roe v. Wade
Today marks the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal. For the last 37 years, the case has remained in a constant state of controversy, with anti-choice activists using any vehicle available to chip away at the right to choose. The most recent manifestation was seen in…