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John Mayer Makes Fewer Black Friends After Playboy Interview
The Black Snob has a nice Cliff’s Notes version of John Mayer’s most recent Playboy interview. You definitely should read the article in full before spazzing out one way or the other, but here’s an abridged version of the chit chat that has the Twitternets going nuts. On having a “hood pass:” Someone asked me…
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Finding My Fitness Plan
I went to my branch office to check out some diet books and ended up in the land of Oz. My “branch office” is, alternatively, Borders or Barnes & Noble, depending on my mood. Last Wednesday, I was after some diet guidance because that was also the first “official” day of my weight-loss quest. I’d…
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Celebrating 100 Years of Black Cinema
As we all know, February marks Black History Month. But this year, February also marks something else: The 100th anniversary of the birth of black cinema. Black cinema was making black history before Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926. And this week, black cinema is making history once again with the nomination…
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50 Years of Black History: A Time Line
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Feb. 1, 1960, four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, N.C., begin a sit-in at Woolworth’s Drug Store. Oct. 1: James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, escorted by U.S. marshals…
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Tatyana Ali Misses the Target With "Love That Girl"
Just a few months after the premier of her BET.com web-series, “Buppies,” Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum Tatyana Ali is trying to recreate her 90’s sitcom magic with “Love That Girl” on TV One. Produced by Martin Lawrence and created by Bentley Kyle Evans (who produced “The Jamie Foxx Show”), the series features Ali as…
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How Martha Coakley Saved Barack Obama
Any Massachusetts voter who pulled the lever for Sen. John McCain in 2008 and Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown in 2010 is on pretty firm ground. They didn’t want Obama then—and they don’t want him now. Voters who chose President Barack Obama but went for Brown in this week’s special election just canceled out their own…
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Remembering Dr. King
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Martin and Coretta King in the early days. Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis and others prepare to lead marchers on the third leg of the infamous march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The march started with the gruesome “Bloody Sunday” that resulted…
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Pat Robertson and Haiti’s Deal With the Devil
The Haitians I knew at my South Florida high school were not exactly the devil-dealing types. Thousands of them had arrived by boat in the early 1990s following Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s (first) ouster. Most knew little English and had not been introduced to such luxuries as deodorant or a high-top fade. Their clothes were out of…
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What Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy Have in Common
Leading into the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy’s aide, Ted Sorensen, wrote that “assuming that his personal appeal, hard work, and political organization produce as before, Senator Kennedy will win in November, unless defeated by the religious issue.” Sorensen’s recognition then about the nation’s only Catholic president amounts to an inverse and clearly more…
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It’s Not Where the Buck Stops on Terror
The critics are beating a straw man when they try to blame the most recent terrorist attack on President Obama. The failure to stop the so-called “underwear bomber” was a failure to share intelligence, and it is rooted in ego and power. Just this past November, the Washington Post and other news outlets reported that…