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Stop Making Michelle Obama Your Feminist Leader
Writing at Essence, The Root contributing editor Demetria L. Lucas says that she favors the choices the first lady is making for her life despite the expectations that some are trying to impose on her. Shortly after I began penning this column in June 2011, I wrote a somewhat controversial post, “Struggling to Claim the…
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2013 Inauguration Highs and Lows
(The Root) — With the final inaugural ball finally wrapped up and all of the out-of-town attendees headed back home today, The Root decided to take a look back at the highs and lows of President Obama’s second inauguration. High: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Hollywood could not have scripted it better. On the day the…
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'Chappelle's Show' Co-Creator's Fave Skits
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since Chappelle’s Show debuted on Comedy Central. Starring comic Dave Chappelle, the sketch-comedy series featured hilarious, irreverent takes on race (Clayton Bigsby, the black white supremacist), history (world’s greatest wars) and celebrity (R. Kelly‘s sex scandal), among other topics. It created oft-repeated catchphrases (“I’m Rick James,…
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'Chappelle's Show' Co-Creator's Fave Skits
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since Chappelle’s Show debuted on Comedy Central. Starring comic Dave Chappelle, the sketch-comedy series featured hilarious, irreverent takes on race (Clayton Bigsby, the black white supremacist), history (world’s greatest wars) and celebrity (R. Kelly‘s sex scandal), among other topics. It created oft-repeated catchphrases (“I’m Rick James,…
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Obama's Velvet-Glove Inaugural Address
(The Root) — Obama deserves very high but perhaps not superlative marks for his second inaugural address. It had more the character of an inside-the-park home run, not a grand slam. A 9 on my Olympic scorecard, not a full 10. Not a standout, A-plus effort, but certainly a quite solid A-minus. The speech will…
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10 Historical Inaugural Moments
President Barack Obama may have been sworn in on Sunday, but it is Monday’s public inauguration ceremony that is the true draw. Four years ago, Obama made history as the first black president. Then, he and first lady Michelle Obama did something that bonded them with onlookers who had braved freezing temperatures for hours to…
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Is It Gun Control or Crime Reduction?
(The Root) — Barack Obama came to a gunfight Wednesday with a rocket launcher. After almost completing his entire first term while deftly dodging any substantive discussion on gun control, 33 days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the president came out blasting. He called out Congress, announcing it’s time for Capitol Hill lawmakers…
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How Will Obama Help Single Parents?
(The Root) — Between now and the inauguration on Jan. 21, The Root will be taking a daily look at the president’s record on a number of policy issues, including his first-term accomplishments and what many Americans hope to see him accomplish in a second term. Today: addressing the challenges faced by single parents. See…
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Integration Pioneer James Hood Dies at 70
James Hood became one of the first black students at the University of Alabama when he faced down Gov. George Wallace at the school’s door to help integrate the university 50 years ago. He died on Thursday in his hometown of Gadsden, where he’s being remembered for proving wrong the saying “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow,…
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2nd Amendment Protected Slavery
Author Says Southerners Wanted to Keep Slave Patrols As Hollywood puts slavery back in the American consciousness and the reaction to the Newtown, Conn., shootings has the Second Amendment on the front burner, an author and talk-show host links the two in an intriguing way. “The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery,” reads the…