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The Congressional Black Caucus Goes on Spring Break with the Castros
Yesterday, key members of the Congressional Black Caucus returned from a four-day trip to Cuba, during which they met with both current President Raul Castro and his brother, longtime American nemesis Fidel Castro. Designed to gather input from Cuban ministers and officials and send a message of Obama-era outreach from the United States, the trip…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
MONDAY MSNBC: Tips for Making College Affordable—Step One: Have Money AJE: Deadly Attack on Iraq Funeral (Yeah, It’s Reaaallly Time for Us to Go) CNN: Tyra Gets Her Robin Givens On, Talks to Oprah of Abuse WH: Obama Talks Green Jobs *Live* IS: Indiana Near Top of Black Homicide Rate; Buzz Didn’t Know Hoosiers Were…
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Strands of Strength
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” My hair, in my opinion, is a slight determining factor of how people perceive me because it is short. But I am happy with the nappy roots God has blessed me with. —Anita Dargan Have…
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Thursday's Headlines
CNN: Two Twisters Touch Down in Mississippi CSM: Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills 11 in Pakistan IHT: France Urges N. Korea to Avoid Missile Test Because, You Know, Kim Jong Il Is a Lunatic SJMN: Oakland Leaders Gather in Response to Violent Weekend; Buzz Makes No ‘Snitch’ Reference WP: Hospitals Slow to Go to Electronic Records;…
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Fire Geithner First
“I don’t know karate—but I know cr-azy.” —James Brown The Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein finally said the F-word. Fraud. While Congress and the Treasury mull over approaches to the financial crisis with exotic names like “cram down,” “claw back” and “disgorgement,” and tax AIG executives “1000 percent” on their $160 million in bonuses, Pearlstein posed…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
Monday Black Enterprise: Top Republicans Want to Let Some Banks Fail; So Does Buzz and Everyone Else The Daily Mail: Longevity Linked to Body’s Reaction Time; Why Blacks Don’t Live Forever Unknown The Huffington Post: PM of Zimbabwe Involved In Car Accident, Wife Killed The Chicago Tribune: Consumers Willing to Make Sojourn to Buy Black…
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Friday's Headlines
HuffPo: Jon Stewart Ethers Jim Cramer. The End. USA Today: The Rock Making Splash in Family Films, Up for O’Shea Jackson Award Deadspin: Barkey Wants to Punch Rush, Everyone Says “Back of the Line, Fella” AJC: BeBe Winans Accused of Assault, CeCe, DeDe, and EeEe Devastated NYT: Maxine Waters Tries to Help Bank and Self,…
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The A-Word Reclaimed
The word “Arab” is used way too liberally in the American vernacular. Since 9/11 and the advent of our six-year war, the term has become a mutilated mainstay in public debate—a common appropriation, the de facto cultural label for all things Islamic, terrorist-related or alien. During the last presidential election John McCain supporters used the…
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What Chris Brown Can Learn From Mike Tyson
To watch “Tyson,” the former heavyweight champion’s self-produced mea culpa on all things Mike, is to unpack two decades’ worth of crazy: the rape conviction, the prison conversion, the chewed ear, the DUI arrest, the bankruptcy, the Don King dustup … that Barbara Walters’ train wreck of an interview with Robin Givens. The documentary feels…
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Lost Decade? We Just Had One
” ‘Jesus,’ he said to himself. ‘Drunk for ten years.’ “—F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lost Decade” For months, the “lost decade” meme has been wending its way through blog posts, economics journals, cable news shows, and newspaper think pieces until, like a minor leaguer on a hot streak, it finally reached The Show, the White…