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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…
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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…