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The Coretta Scott King Book Awards: 40 Years of Excellence
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” As a mainstay in the publishing world, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards has a full and rich tradition of recognizing the best literature for young people created by African-American writers and illustrators. The honored books…
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Barack Is Not Spock
Barack is not Spock. I’ve heard so much rhapsodizing recently about the obvious kinship of the “mixed-race” marvels that I had to set the record straight. I saw “Star Trek” last weekend. Good film, but when the Vulcan commander strolled across the bridge of the Enterprise, I was not reminded of the president. Others have…
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Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York
Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York According to the Washington Post, Four men—James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen—were apprehended while plotting to use C-4 plastic explosives to bomb two Jewish centers in the Bronx, New York. The men also planned to shoot down Air National Guard planes with Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles. Stuff like this…
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Guns Kill, But Poverty’s the Trigger
Recently, longtime Catholic priest and freedom fighter Father Michael Pfleger and members of his parish—the Faith Community of St. Sabina in the South Side of Chicago—made an eloquent plea for justice by flying the American flag upside down in front of his church. Hoisting a flag with the union down is done very rarely and…
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No Joke: The Rise of States' Rights in Today's Politics
In recent weeks, I have been as troubled by the conservative revival around nullification as I have disturbed by the progressive bloggers who have dismissed the modern-day nullifiers as “nutty.” Over at the HUFFINGTON POST, Chris Weigant recently called nullification “nutty.” Jay Bookman blogged similarly over at the ATLANTA JOURNAL- CONSTITUTION, and the tone of…
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Cleveland Tourism Video: WTF?
So, some dude named Mike Polk, who fancies himself a comedian, did a YouTube video tribute to Cleveland. The Cleveland Tourism Board video and another one he did have been making the rounds around the Internets and what not and the thing is, it’s almost funny, in a 1983 sort of way, when white people…
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Pulpit Pimps?
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, tends to say what he thinks. Recently he suggested that the AIG executives who took those hefty bonuses after their company was bailed out with taxpayer money should either “resign immediately” or “commit suicide” like their Japanese counterparts. And as controversial as that was,…
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Playing Hardball With Affirmative Action
If you missed Chris Matthews’ whacked-out tirade against affirmative action last week on his shoutfest Hardball with Chris Matthews, don’t worry. I’m guessing you’ll have plenty of opportunities to hear similar screeds in the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the affirmative action case involving promotions in the New…
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Wanda Sykes is Sorry For No Marion Barry Jokes
Comedian Wanda Sykes was killing ’em this weekend at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. The dinner, the first attended by Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, upped the glitz factor significantly in otherwise buttoned-up Washington (hence the nickname folks here employed: “Nerd Prom.”) And it was a strange sight indeed: Administration officials…
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D for Detroit
Detroiters go to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor to finish out Kwame Kilpatrick’s unfinished second term—and then they’ll get ready to do it all over again. The prize for the winner is a city in distress. Crime is up; schools are down; and unemployment is at 20 percent. Last year, the Detroit Lions…