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Tuesday's Headlines
The Indalian Job: Sometimes, You Just Forget Your Color Newsday: The Zing Heard ‘Round the Hill: New Bill to Tax AIG Exec Bonuses at 100 Percent The Guardian: Pope Says Condoms Would Make African AIDS Crisis Worse; No, for Real, He Said That WP: New iPhone May Be on Horizon Because, You Know…that Whole ‘Turbines…
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Why Sanford vs. Obama is a Defining Political Feud
Michael Steele’s mania gets the airtime, but South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is shaking out as the real Republican nemesis for Barack Obama’s effort to redefine government as hero rather than villain. Both Obama and the Democratic National Committee know this, which is why they’re picking a fight on his home turf. Sanford, who is…
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Pregnancy Yoga Poses
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…
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Shelby Steele: The GOP Can't Win Either
Despite the cringe-inducing title of his last book, “A Bound Man: Why We’re Excited About Barack Obama and Why He Can’t Win” (out in paperback, y’all!), Shelby Steele is still being afforded the “credibility” of expressing himself on the WALL STREET JOURNAL’s opinion page. Here’s Steele’s valiant attempt to explain to the tastemakers why black…
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Private Line
Rihanna reportedly took a peek at Chris Brown’s PDA and set off the course of events we’ve been reading about for the last few weeks. With all the different reports, I’m all kinds of conflicted and disgusted overall by the Chrianna incident, but one thing I’m sure of: if you love someone, you don’t read…
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March Madness Hits the White House
Selection Sunday kicked off the official beginning of March Madness 2009. And that’s your attorney general, Eric Holder, holding a palm-sized basketball as he speaks with an unidentified attendee at the announcement of the White House Council on Women and Girls in the East Room of the White House last Wednesday. Any guesses as to…
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Cleopatra was a Sista' and a Killer
Cleopatra: A Portrait of a Killer airs Monday, March 23 on BBC One. And get this, archeologists are finally letting the tightly-curled hair and full lips out of the white-washed bag. That’s right, the documentary plans to set the record straight: Cleopatra looked nothing like velvet-eyed, porcelain white Elizabeth Taylor. In fact, Cleopatra’s mother was…
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Starting Over: How Iyanla Lost Her Home
A few weekends ago, I rolled out of bed early Saturday morning to attend Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union symposium in Los Angeles. Like many Americans, I’m out of work. My money is tighter than a black power fist, and finding a job is challenging. So I was eager to get a dose…
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Nobody's Model Minority
Recently Forbes ran a contentious article that slipped through the cracks without much commentary. The piece, written by Jason Richwine of the American Enterprise Institute, declared Indian Americans “The New Model Minority,” as if we were competing for the title in a pageant. Let’s clear this up once and for all. Being called a “model…
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The Angel Network
David Johnson probably shouldn’t be an NBA prospect. He’s 25 years old, ancient for a possible rookie, and stands all of 5’10”. His college career lasted 10 games. He’s a junior-high counselor and the coach of a middle-school basketball team, has two kids and no professional agent. But he does have Jessica Raumer. His girlfriend…