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Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” The soon-to-be first lady looks on as Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president. The president and first lady arrive at the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. Attending the National…

Grind for the Green Harris uses hip-hop to teach green principles and produced the first solar-powered hip-hop concert. Pictured with Harris is her husband, Ambessa Cantave, the co-founder and co-director of Grind for the Green. “What hip-hop does is provide a framework where young people realize that they are part of the green movement.” READ…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” His American Kennel Club registered name is Amigos New Hope. That sounds suspicious from the jump. Amigos and Hope in the same breath? Captions by Denise Stewart Reports say the dog is now at his…

Natalie Hopkinson is a Washington, D.C.-based author whose current projects deal with the arts, gender and public life. She is the author of Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City. Follow her on Twitter.  If I ruled the literary world, the African-American fiction section of bookstores would smell like cookies. Every time someone entered the…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Less than a month into their father’s presidency, Sasha and Malia Obama were seasoned passengers of Air Force One. Here, Mr. President and the first lady have the kids in-tow for a weekend trip to Chicago.…

On April 8, 1974, Aaron and the Braves faced the Dodgers in a nationally televised game; in the fourth inning, during his second at bat, he hit his 715th record-breaking home run. Aaron didn’t consider himself a celebrity athlete. But what he lacked in flash and charisma, he made up for it with his performance at bat. For…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” My hair, in my opinion, is a slight determining factor of how people perceive me because it is short. But I am happy with the nappy roots God has blessed me with. —Anita Dargan Have…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Abolitionist, editor and diplomat Frederick Douglass was nicknamed “The Lion of Anacostia.” Douglass surely embodied the moniker’s courage, but his snowy outgrowth gave him the bearing of an Old Testament prophet. A photo essay by…

Meet Washington’s “Black Pack“: Baptized by fire during the grueling two-year presidential campaign, they counted delegates, crunched polls, spun the press, worked doors and phones, and brought America its first African-American president. Click on to see how far they’ve come. Joshua DuBois was largely responsible for the ground Barack Obama made up among religious voters…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” President Obama chose The Tonight Show to get serious about the AIG bonuses, the economy and to defend Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. But the POTUS and Jay Leno were still able to share a few laughs… You…