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The Root's Oscar Picks
Well, there is nothing to be done now. Academy voters have made their selections and with some exceptions, they represent the ho-hum, narrow reality of said voters. Yes, Slumdog Millionaire is included in the Best Picture category (but, like the new administration, it might be a tad overhyped). And they got it all right in…
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Stimuli '09
The Wall Street Journal: There hasn’t been enough time for the Street to be salty, but give it ten minutes. The Huffington Post: This started dropping before the President had even put his pen down. USA Today: The Buzz’s guess: Very slowly. Black America Web: Derivative and possibly premature, but worth a gander nonetheless. Politico: A…
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Sunset in Phoenix
His double-double averages and the memories are all Shaquille O’Neal has left these days. Making what is likely his final appearance in the All-Star game before his hometown fans Sunday, the Big Aristotle, as might be expected, is a little reflective. “I’m the Shogun of all centers,” O’Neal told me. “I’ve done the most; any…
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Gifted Hands, Remedial Script
Somewhere out there is a biopic worthy of the many talents of pediatric neurosurgeon, author and motivational speaker Ben Carson, he of the spectacular surgeries and the bestselling books. The man’s got a story to tell, and in this age of Obama, stories that celebrate the life of black intellect are welcome, indeed. Too bad…
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Civil Servant Chic
Two years ago, I sat with college sophomores at Princeton University to discuss their professional futures. My pitch was for public service, federal government service to be exact. I was leading the university’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, and I faced a youthful, academically accomplished group with hearts that embraced the ideals of service…
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Obama's Special Guests
“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions—who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.” —President Barack…
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Pragmatism and the Presidency
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John Stauffer in today’s NYT: “UNTIL a martyred John F. Kennedy replaced him, Abraham Lincoln was one of the two white men whose image most frequently graced even the most modest black home, second in popularity only to Jesus. Perhaps none of his heirs in the Oval Office has been…
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The First Supper
Back when President-elect Barack Obama was still slugging it out for the Democratic nomination, I took to the kitchen to soothe my frazzled nerves. (Cooking relaxes me.) What I came up with was a Hawaiian and African inspired savory supper that I called Barack pie. On the eve of the most important inauguration of our…
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B.I.G.ger Than The Movie
If I got to choose a coast I got to choose the East I live out there, so don’t go there But that don’t mean a nigga can’t rest in the West… Cali got gunplay, models on the runway… —The Notorious B.I.G., “Going Back to Cali” Watching Notorious is like time traveling to back to…
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Gwen Ifill’s ‘The Breakthrough’
From the book The Breakthrough by Gwen Ifill. © 2009 by Gwen Ifill. Posted by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.. chapter three baRack obaMa If you were to get a handbook on what’s the path to the presidency, I don’t think that the handbook would start by saying, “Be an African American…