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Michael Jackson's Birthday Bash
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” A big Brooklyn salute to the King of Pop. Director Spike Lee throws a block party in Brooklyn, N.Y., in honor of what would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday. A little rain was not…
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Prince's Protégées: Then and Now
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Back in the day, Prince wrapped himself in that whole fabulously mysterious Purple Majesty thing. If you came of age in the ‘80s, chances are that you wanted, above anything, to be a part of…
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What Being 'Black in America' Really Means
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Attendees arrive at The Root and Black Web 2.0’s “Black in America 2” event. Young, black academics and professionals in the Washington area came out to Bus Boys and Poets to watch the program and participate…
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The White House Beerfest Gallery
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley. The White House Rose Garden. A light drink and snacks on the White House Rose Garden. The beer selections (from left to right) of Sgt. James…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A Reaction Roundup
“My hope is that as a consequence of this event, this ends up being what’s called ‘a teachable moment’ where all of us, instead of pumping up the volume, spend a little more time listening to each other,” he said. —President Obama, in a White House briefing today Read the full statement here. “You can’t…
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Remembering Billie Holiday
Born Eleanora Fagan, the illegitimate child of Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday, in Philadelphia. Both of her parents were still their teens when she was born. Soon after her birth, Sadie Fagan returned to Baltimore’s Fells Point to raise her child alone. Captions by John D. Murph Billie’s childhood in Baltimore was rough. She was…
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African Rogues and Royalty
Covers the White House and Washington for The Root. Follow her on Twitter. Since 1989, Omar Al-Bashir has become one of the most despised figures in African and international civil society. His regime is believed to have perpetuated and inflamed the Darfur genocide, which has terrorized, killed or displaced millions of black Africans. Bashir also…
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Steve McNair: 1973-2009
McNair, shared League MVP honors with Payton Manning in 2003. Here the two Pro Bowlers greet each other before a game in Nashville in 2004. After two seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, McNair announced his retirement in April 2008. He seemed unhappy about leaving the game behind. Steve McNair in January 2004 talking about his…
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12 Angry White Men
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” A pioneer of the age of rage, ’80s talk-show firebrand Morton Downey Jr. frequently told guests to “zip it” or “go to hell.” Conservative commentator and columnist Pat Buchanan is a regular guest on MSNBC where his…
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Losing the VIBE
In September 1993, VIBE Magazine, founded by music legend Quincy Jones one month prior, published its very first issue, which featured Snoop Dogg on the cover. Captions by Tabitha Peyton Wood In April 1995, VIBE ran an interview with rap legend Tupac Shakur, in which the artist famously anticipated his death before being killed the following…