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'Star Spangled' Bloopers
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Kels may be the (Questionable) King of R&B, but he still loses points for this ringside rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner.” It’s not his caliber of singing that makes us cringe, it’s the “Up…
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Clueless Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson on the red carpet at the BET Awards. The show became a tribute to his late son, Michael Jackson. While the world was mourning his son, Joe Jackson was on the red carpet at the BET Awards peddling his new music production company. Did Joe Jackson forget that he’s 80 and supposed to be in mourning?…
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Remembering Michael Jackson
He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.” — Quincy Jones Here he is at 13 in 1972, singing at home in Encino, Calif. I can’t stop crying over the sad news.…
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A Deadly Washington Train Wreck
On Monday afternoon, two trains that were headed in the same direction, collided in NE Washington when one rear-ended the other. The driver of the trailing train is among those who died in the crash. Emergency rescue workers arrived on the scene shortly after the accident. They helped commuters off the train, taking many of…
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Happy Father's Day!
Bill Cosby peddled his tough-love parenting style as Cliff Huxtable on the hit TV series The Cosby Show. Cliff, for a time the most famous father in America, was meted out compassion and contempt in equal measure: “I brought you into this world. I can take you out!” Jesse Jackson is always doling out the…
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PHOTO ESSAY: The Evolution of Bed-Stuy
Do The Right Thing was shot on one block of Stuyvesant Ave. between Quincy and Lexington St. During the filming set designers painted the brownstones bright shades of red, orange, and yellow in order to reinforce the sense of blistering summer heat. One of New York’s oldest black neighborhoods, in the past, Bedford-Stuyvesant was known…
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Quote, Unquote
“I think that those of you that regularly exercise . . . you’re the people getting injured. You’re the people showing up at the hospital with busted knees and tendons and skin cancer and ankle sprain. All you exercise freaks, you’re the ones putting stress on the health care system,” radio political commentator Rush Limbaugh…
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Quote, Unquote
“10lbs. 197kts. Very very real I don’t know what fake feel like. $410,000. Hola señor recession proof,” music artist T-Pain wrote on Twitter of his “big ass chain,” which he purchased last week. “‘Remember when we sold the best player in the world, and it made us stronger?’ No, because that never happens. Never has…
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The Legacy of Loving
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” The Lovings fell in love as teens and were married for nine years before their union was legally recognized. But in the couple’s fight against anti-miscegenation statutes, law was secondary to love. Two years before…
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Real Housewives of D.C.
From the Washington Post: The only African-American woman headlining the cast, Turner, 42, is also the only ‘Housewife’ with much connection to local politics. Her husband, Jason, worked in D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration, but left amid political drama in the parks department. The two have also hosted fundraisers. She’s a Howard University grad and…