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Don’t Do It, NAACP!
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Yes, Idris Elba is one delicious tall draaank, and that alone is enough to redeem Obsessed, the Negro Fatal Attraction one reviewer hailed as proof that we have achieved equal right to have trashy, lowbrow movies aimed at us. Fair enough. But…
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Haiti's Development: A Human-Rights Approach
In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last month, thousands of its countrymen are reversing a trend that has dominated life in developing third world countries for decades—they are migrating back to the countryside, after having flocked to the cities in a desperate search for employment. What drove their urban flight was…
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The USDA and The Value of Black Land
Alphonso Hooks, a fourth-generation farmer in Shorter, Alab., was ambivalent about recent news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) signed a $1.25 billion discrimination settlement with thousands of black farmers. The agreement, called Pigford II, was the second redressing of past USDA racial discrimination cases. Hooks says he got nothing in an earlier settlement.…
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What I Saw at the Conservative Devolution
In 2003, Republicans attending the 30th anniversary of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had much to celebrate: a solid majority in Congress, a conservative stalwart in George W. Bush and a war in Iraq coming down the chute. This year, the out-of-power American right convened once more. Panelists discussed “Going Rogue,” the dangers of…
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Remembering Malcolm X
Forty-five years ago today the world lost a “shining black prince” when black empowerment activist Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City. The anniversary of that tragedy went largely unnoted by the mainstream media, but ordinary people gave it its due in an outpouring of Tweets. The Root’s favorite Twitterati also weighed in. Referring to the debate…
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Black History: Work to Live, Earn to Multiply
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Prior to the Civil War, despite severe restraints on their movements and limited capital, slaves and free blacks developed enterprises that paralleled mainstream business activity. In the 18th century, Paul Cuffe, the son of an Ashanti from Ghana and a Wampanoag Indian…
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Let's Go Ahead and Boo Roy Williams
In discussing his mediocre season to a room full of reporters on the eve of the Duke-North Carolina game, North Carolina head coach had this to say about his team’s sub-par conference record “Our massage therapist told me, ‘You know, coach, what happened in Haiti is a catastrophe. What you’re having is a disappointment,’ ”…
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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…