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Rootitian's Ball
Police brutality, manners and Bobby Jindal, oh my! Word to our bloggers Keith Josef Adkins, Karen Grigsby Bates and Jimi Izrael. They’re some bad mutha… Support Black bloggers.
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Read/React
RESOLVED: People are prepared to give Chris Brown a mulligan regarding the incident with Rihanna. Agree or Disagree in the Comments section. Loyal Buzzonians: Keep it civil. Stay on topic.
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Power Lunch
Steve Stoute and Jay-Z have teamed to launch Translation, an ad agency directed at what many hope is a recession-proof demographic: Educated, urban youth with earning potential. Branding, They Go Hard, They Go Hard While The Buzz can’t help but think of Steve Stoute in two regards—as the Stoute of “tell Stoute to holla at me…
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Stop Attacking Black People!
I only have a few words for the Seattle incident, you know, where the 15 year-old was viciously slammed in a jail cell: Enough is fricking enough. My grand-uncle was lynched for refusing to let a Sheriff-approved white man enter his home to search for an alleged thief. Just last week a good friend was…
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Michael Steele Gets Bum-Rushed
Michael Steele apologizes to Rush Limbaugh for calling him what he is—an “entertainer” and a hack. As an informed friend points out: “I haven’t seen this much deference since GONE WITH THE WIND.” Tsk. Covers the White House and Washington for The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
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Cherry Pickin'
The New York Times: Obama Sends Secret Letter to Russia, Possibly Accompanied By Decoder Ring TBT: Allegedly, a multi-flag match in the steel cage has been offered as a solution to hostilities. The Washington Post: Gunmen Attack Sri Lankan Cricket Team in Pakistan TBT: When the sport of an unstsable region can’t remain beyond the reach…
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Ending of an Era?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports a building at Morris Brown College is going up for auction today. Will it be saved from the chopping block? Building Auction While one could argue that her statements were meant to inspire vis a vis the “we will not be shaken” angle, the statements of Bunnie Jackson, a college spokeswoman,…
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The Political Decline of the White Male?
It must be pretty disconcerting to be part of the white male political class these days. Nancy Pelosi is the first woman speaker of the House; Michael Steele is the African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee. Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American governor, “delivered” the official Republican response to the first congressional address by the first…
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A Faith-Based Fix
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on A FAITH-BASED FIX with The Root’s Washington reporter Dayo Olopade. ***** The first month of Barack Obama’s presidency brought change to all parts to Washington—none more sweeping than the passage of his American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, designed to shock the U.S. economy out of its slump. A notable…
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Better Recognize!
Segregation didn’t have a ton of advantages but one of them was the communal assumption of a shared group of values. For instance, when you passed someone on the street, whether it was someone you knew of a stranger, you spoke, or nodded or otherwise recognized the presence of another human being. Lately I’ve been…