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Elin Woods to Tiger: It’s Me or The Club http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles%2Fnews%2Fmoving_america_news%2F17906 It is being reported that Elin Woods is leaving Tiger officially because he refuses to give up golf. Golf? We thought that unprotected sex with porn stars, cocktail waitresses, and a bevy of busted chicks would be enough for her to leave. Infidelity and public…

Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter.

Thirteen states from California to Rhode Island would like to impose strict emissions standards on new cars. Another 23 state legislatures would like to do away with the ubiquitous plastic grocery bags. Oregon has kicked a flame retardant out of children’s pajamas; Wisconsin has banned another compound from toys for tots. Washington is taking copper…

As the nation mourns the death of civil rights warrior Benjamin Hooks, who lead the NAACP from 1977 to 1992 as executive director, it’s easy to forget one important thing that distinguished him from many civil rights leaders: his close ties to the Republican Party. It was under a Republican administration — Richard Nixon’s —…

The NAACP has dropped its racial discrimination charge against Wells Fargo “Wells Fargo and the NAACP have agreed to work constructively on ways to improve fair credit access, sustainable home ownership and financial literacy for communities of color and other historically disadvantaged communities,” Wells Fargo and the NAACP said in a joint press release. The…

In July 1962, I went with two students from Jackson, Mississippi’s sit-in movement to a little town in Sunflower County called Ruleville. We’d only been in town for a couple of days when, while walking down a dirt road, a car stopped in front of us. A white man holding a pistol ordered us into…

Is anyone really surprised that Mississippi’s Republican governor, Haley Barbour, dismissed the importance of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proclamation in honor of Confederate History Month that conveniently forgot to mention slavery? Barbour told CNN’s Candy Crowley that for people outside Dixie, the old times there should be forgotten. Asked if Gov. McDonnell’s omission of slavery…

Kwame Kilpatrick: Thugnificent Back in the Mix Take one disgraced former mayor/thug/clown, add a former first lady/thug/clown who beat down a stripper whom she caught/didn’t catch in the Manoogian Mansion, stir in the murder of said stripper in a drive-by, sprinkle with a police cover-up, garnish with a multi-million dollar lawsuit and you’ve got a…

The news that a son of the late Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will challenge Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel in the Democratic primary is the kind of sweet irony that reporters love.  If the younger Powell were to oust Rangel, who has been under fire for ethical reasons lately, he would be replacing the man who…

The Maynard Institute’s Dori Maynard argues on the institute’s web site that the news media need to include whites in their coverage of the race beat. Here’s why:During the debate over health care reform, some white protesters hurled racial epithets at black elected officials and even spit on one.Later that same week, the Atlanta Journal…