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Too Much Pride or Justified?
Before things started to pick up, it was suggested to me that I work at a juvenile detention center as a detention officer. Here I was a recent college graduate with dreams of becoming a successful writer being told that I need to get over myself and go babysit some yuckmouth, trifling kids on their…
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Monday's Headlines
WP: AIG Discloses Use of Bailout Funds; You Didn’t Get Any, But an Incompetent Did Times of London: Thousands of Girls Mutilated in Britain WSJ: Having Little Interest in Being Opposed, Chavez Sends Navy to Venezuela’s Seaport to Make This Clear AP: Imus Has Prostate Cancer; Rev. Al Sharpton to Protest This in Some Way…
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HIV in D.C. Worse Than in West Africa
That’s right, it’s official: Chocolate City has a developing world AIDS epidemic. Three percent of the population is HIV positive, city officials are announcing today. And that’s just counting the people who have actually been tested—federal health officials believe anywhere from a quarter to a third of people living with HIV in the U.S. don’t…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
Monday Black Enterprise: Top Republicans Want to Let Some Banks Fail; So Does Buzz and Everyone Else The Daily Mail: Longevity Linked to Body’s Reaction Time; Why Blacks Don’t Live Forever Unknown The Huffington Post: PM of Zimbabwe Involved In Car Accident, Wife Killed The Chicago Tribune: Consumers Willing to Make Sojourn to Buy Black…
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Heard It Through The Grapevine
“If you have nothing nice to say…come sit by me.” The late Alice Roosevelt Longworth did have a way with words, and those words truly were embroidered on a pillow she impishly placed in her Washington parlor. Most guests didn’t have to be encouraged. Teddy Roosevelt’s willful, sharp-spoken daughter was known for her love of…
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Weekend Guide
NYT: Obama Pledges to Improve Food Safety; Peanut People Say, “Whatever Do You Mean”? MH: White House Drops ‘Enemy Combatant’ Term; GOP Still Clinging to ‘Evildoers’ WP: Blaming Bush in Vogue These Days; Why It Wouldn’t Be Is Uncertain Bloomberg: White House Tries to Reassure China About Debt, Says “We Got Yo’ Money Baby!” CNN:…
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Keeping Soul Music Honest
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…
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EXCLUSIVE: Maxine Waters Responds to Reports of Improper Conduct Surrounding Bank Bailout
In a special piece for The Root, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) denies allegations that she improperly aided minority-owned banks during the federal bailout of troubled financial institutions: I have been an outspoken advocate for minority communities and businesses in California and nationally for decades. Recent press reports suggest that somehow I have acted improperly in…
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Check On Unemployment
Getting an unemployment check is a lot like surviving a car crash with injuries. Yeah, you’re happy you’ve survived, but it would be nice to be able to walk without crutches soon. I’m not sure who these people paying off their trips to India with their unemployment checks are, but they sound nothing like the…