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A-Rod’s Price of Admission
When Sports Illustrated broke the news that Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez, by most reckoning the greatest active player in baseball today, had tested positive in 2003 for use of Primobolan and testosterone, I shrugged. But then the story got real interesting. My initial disinterest lay not in the story’s importance but in its tone.…
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Too Much Information
Time was, a player had to worry about getting her spot blown up because of three-way calling. Or, maybe sending a love note to the wrong email address. And we won’t even get into the many love games and dilemmas that arise on Facebook. Now, the geniuses at Google have come up with a new “service” called…
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Ruined: The Congo's Forgotten Story
Lynn Nottage’s Ruined opened Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Club on Tuesday and it’s unanimous—it’s a hit and a gem. Nottage, the MacArthur Genius Award recipient, has unearthed a lush story about present-day Congo women, the abuse they endure, and the peace they seek. Ruined follows Mama Nadi [performed vibrantly by Saidah Arrika Ekulona] who…
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Was Lincoln a Racist?
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion: “WAS LINCOLN A RACIST?” with The Root’s editor in chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. ***** I first encountered Abraham Lincoln in Piedmont, W.Va. When I was growing up, his picture was in nearly every black home I can recall, the only white man, other than Jesus himself, to grace black family walls.…
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Crisis on the Color Line
Just before Christmas 1776, colonist Thomas Paine published the first of a series of essays on early American values that would come to be known as “The American Crisis.” In it, Paine, a strong voice for the American colonies’ independence from Britain, wrote of setbacks on the path to liberty as “the times that try…
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Woman to Woman
“I’m His Only Woman,” Jennifer Hudson’s duet with her fellow American Idol alumna Fantasia, is enjoying heavy rotation on black radio. On the extended version on Hudson’s self-titled debut album, the song opens with Fantasia phoning Jennifer to talk “woman to woman” about the man whom they share. Fantasia: … I’m calling right now to…
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Help a Mommy Out
If you were worried about the California mother of 14, Nadya Suleman, making ends meet, worry no more. Suleman has launched her own website where her “fans” can make donations and leave comments for her and the octuplets. This was a good move on her part for a number of reasons. First, she doesn’t have…
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If You Knew Suze Like We Know Suze
“Tell me what I need to know,” people often say to me. “Here is what you need to know,” I answer. —Suze Orman, The Road to Wealth How a bottle-blond former waitress and self-described “55-year-old virgin” with a taste for the good life became the financial messiah for millions of Americans might be a fun…
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The Michelle Vogue
It was only a matter of time before the hottest chick in the game, the fist-bumping First Lady, Our Belle Michelle hit the cover of Vogue. It’s no secret that The Buzz is totally sprung on Michelle. Our hearts go pitter-patter which each report of her out and about in our town: Taking the girls…
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe Swears in His Rival
Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader in Zimbabwe, was sworn in as prime minister by his nemesis, President Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday. The new prime minister, who in June ran against Mugabe for president, leads the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Will Zimbabwe’s democratic tide ever take over? Mugabe, who has been quoted as saying “Zimbabwe is mine,”…