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Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” This pose helps to relieve lower back pain and creates flexibility in the spine. Begin on all fours, with a flat back, wrists underneath shoulders and knees underneath hips. Exhale to push the floor away…

Dionne Farris lent her voice to Arrested Development’s 1992 summer hit, “Tennessee.” After the group’s lead vocalist Speech completes his final verse, Farris’ gospel-like riff carries the song to the final note. READ Mark Anthony Neal’s essay, “Whatever Happened to Dionne Farris?” When Farris released the pop single “I Know,” a Grammy-nominated song, from the album Wild…

“I think he should not go to prison, where there are already too many black men and where he may come out worse than when he went in. Rather I think he should be rehabilitated by sentencing him to at least a year of house arrest, except for 10 hours a day of community service,…

There are no superheroes in the real world. Looking at the American Dream realized in Barack Obama, many Americans see a red cape on his back, flapping in the wind. They imagine him descending from the sky to lift them up, from despair, from poverty, from unemployment, from apathy. Just like the “S” on Superman’s…

“All I want is to be able to stand in front of my boy like my father never was able to do to me and tell him he’ll be somebody in this world besides a servant ad a chauffeur.” ‘Raisin in the Sun’ was the first play by a black playwright to enjoy full theatrical…

Who wears skin-colored shorts under a tennis skirt that’s likely blow in the air as she serves up 100+ mph tennis balls? Queen of the courts Venus Williams! Now if you think this photo’s bad, check out what the Associated Press has floating around on its wires. In his essay on The Root about the diss…

Slumdog Millionaire, starring Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, directed by Danny Boyle. Sean Penn, Milk Kate Winslet, The Reader Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona After several rounds of chemotherapy last year, Robin Roberts looked gorgeous as she co-hosted the pre-Oscars show on ABC. One of the best moments of the red-carpet…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” As I wrote in my essay on The Root, Mardi Gras is definitely “More Than Beads, Booze and Breasts.” Here in this photo, I’ve collected beads, doubloons (fake coins) and toys thrown from massive decorated…

Best Supporting Actress in 1959 Imitation of Life Remember how Miss Lora (Lana Turner) cried over Annie’s (Juanita Moore) death bed? And how Mahalia Jackson sang “Trouble of the World” at her funeral? Winner: Shelley Winters, The Diary of Anne Frank Best Supporting Actress in 1985, Whoopi Goldberg “I’m poor, black, I might even be…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Michelle’s style sneaks up on you because underneath it all the first lady has a simple sartorial equation: Mix the practical with panache. This belted coat from Andy & Debb will keep her warm and…