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Happy Holidays, from the cast of ___!
One difference between my generation and that of my parents has got to be the special bond us millennials have with our televisions. From our Saturday morning cartoon rituals to the T.G.I.F. line-ups, it seemed like our schedules revolved around the latest “must-see TV.” So naturally, our prime-time favorites also became holiday traditions. Admit it,…
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Hold That Tiger
If you know the way from the alley to Buckingham Palace and back, having listened to the glistening slime of pimps and hustlers can provide you with a perfectly realistic sense of human nature beyond the supposedly shocking Tiger Woods scandal. In my youth, almost any subject would be taken apart in the near darkness of…
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NEWS STAND: Obama's Speech, Caucus Friction, Atlanta Stays Black, China in Africa
OBAMA’S NOBEL MOMENT The brother can preach. U.S. President Barack Obama delivered another dazzling speech this morning as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that many Americans say he doesn’t deserve. In his far-reaching Nobel “lecture,” as the speech is called, the President acknowledged the controversy and said he could not argue with…
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Top 10 Epic Fails of 2009
10. The presidential mom jeans. ‘Nuff said. 9. Adam Lambert’s American Music Award performance was, in and of itself, not an epic fail. Yes, it was tragically bad, with male-on-male sexy time and doofy outfits and crappy singing. The epic fail in this overtly sexualized messy mess of hairspray and gel was the fact that…
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What Would the Pilgrims Say About Tofu?
Last year, as a junior at Howard University, I had the typical college student’s urge for drastic change—we’ll call it my “boho moment.” I staged a one-woman boycott against hair weaves and chemical relaxers—and while I was at it, I decided to swear off meat, too. I made the requisite declaration to my family. They…
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Oprah's Blackest Moments
I remember the early days, when Oprah was just starting out. At the time, this was a big, big deal. You just didn’t see a black woman hosting a daytime talk show. And there she was, big hair and big personality, storming the airwaves. My earliest memory of her was when she had a number…
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Congress Spazzes Out on The Obama and Friends
The Congress is none too pleased with the state of the economy and there are those calling for Treasurer Tim-Tim’s resignation. From The Washington Post: “Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home. They also underscored the stiff headwinds that the…
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File Under "Not Hilarious": Thinly-Veiled Death Threats
It’s never funny to joke about killing the president or wish for his death in a thinly-veiled way. Apparently, some people still aren’t getting the memo. From Gawker: “There’s a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet: someone’s coined a bumper sticker slogan encouraging people to pray for Barack Obama. But here’s…
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Brown Paper Bag: Blame Black Hollywood
I wanted to throw my sixty cents into the Root’s own Jada F. Smith’s “color in black Hollywood” conversation. As an active participant in the Hollywood game I’d like to bring attention to a few facts. Smith feels the Lee Daniel’s film Precious is a perfect template for the dysfunctional battle between good and evil,…
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Does Hollywood Still Have a Brown Paper Bag Test?
I’ve been accused a time or two of being a little too color-struck, reading too deeply into decisions that could have been made based on pure happenstance. Yes, I rooted for the Jiggaboos in Spike Lee’s School Daze, and sure, I happen to find Idris Elba a helluva lot more attractive than Chris Brown, but…