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Breezy's Latest Beef
The New York Post is reporting that Chris Brown is a marked man since his alleged assault of the pop princess Rihanna. “He messed with the wrong crew,” a source told the gossip mags. Meanwhile, Brown’s reportedly abusive stepfather told Access Hollywood he wasn’t suprised at the charges. He also lectured about “taking responsibility” for…
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Real Housewives, Real Struggles
Like many people, The Buzz has been prowling the internet, searching for the latest update on the Chris Brown/Rihanna domestic violence incident. Is RiRi okay? How could Chris Brown do this? These questions still haven’t been answered by law enforcement officials or “close, unknown sources.” While more details about the incident are slowly rolling in,…
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Boom, Bust, Repeat
We heard barking as we approached the four-bedroom bungalow on a tidy suburban cul-de-sac near West Palm Beach. A 30-ish white man with sandy brown hair opened the door. “Is there a dog?” my mom asked with her Caribbean lilt. He caged the dog. We stepped inside, and my mother delivered the grim news: She…
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Pakistan is Closer Than You Think
Now that the inaugural celebrations are over, we’ve moved into that difficult phase of the presidency called governing. To say that President Barack Obama faces unprecedented challenges is practically an understatement. At the very least, he faces greater challenges than any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. On the international front alone, he must grapple with…
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The Twain Shall Meet
Building bridges between cultures to promote greater understanding is an age-old dream that too often suffers from clumsy execution, resulting in the exact opposite effect. But recently, the revolutionary German artist Carsten Höller got it right. A big name on the international art scene who exhibits at the Tate Modern in London and the Guggenheim…
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The NAACP at 100 — A Photo Retrospective
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Joel Elias Spingarn, one of the NAACP’s founders and second president. Spingarn was also one of the organization’s first Jewish members. Lawyer, NAACP litigation director and former Dean of Howard University Law School Charles Hamilton…
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Are All Those Your Kids? (the Sequel)
Nadya Suleman, the single, 33 year-old mother of 14 children conceived by in vitro fertilization, will probably get asked this a lot as soon as they’re all able to move out and about together. But you don’t have to be a mother of mega-multiples to get strangers’ questions—sometimes well-intentioned, sometimes not—as to whether the cluster…
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Are All Those Your Kids (the Sequel)
Nadya Suleman, the single, 33 year-old mother of 14 children conceived by in vitro fertilization, will probably get asked this a lot as soon as they’re all able to move out and about together. But you don’t have to be a mother of mega-multiples to get strangers’ questions—sometimes well-intentioned, sometimes not—as to whether the cluster…
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Covering a Century of Crisis
Throughout the Great Migration, The Crisis was a point of reference for blacks newly scattered across America. The Crisis was an early pioneer in challenging standards of beauty, featuring women of color on the front cover of hundreds of issues. The magazine also explored the role of colored soldiers in Europe during World War I.…
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Taking Post-Black Too Far?
A Duke University professor argues that white colleges need to drop ‘black student’ recruitment weekends that specifically target black high school students. “The effect of minority recruitment weekends renders all of these events as segregated as church on a Sunday morning,” Prof. Karla Holloway writes. “When we invite students to campus in effectively segregated groupings,…