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Old School, Modern Times
Thanks to everyone who commented on yesterday’s maiden blog, and who e-mailed queries (see below). We are off to a very good start! One consistent thread that was laced through just about everyone’s comments was how awkward it is to use the home training you were raised with (or acquired along the way) when the…
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Closing In on Inauguration
Via CNN, here comes a neat experience to cap off your frenzied week of Barack Obama inauguration overload: the Gigapan! This cool application stitches together a series of 220 digital photographs taken from the north media tower on the Capitol during last Tuesday’s inauguration, allowing viewers to zoom in on the crowd—way in. If you…
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What Can Brown Do For You?
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama granted his first sit-down network TV interview to the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya network—the erstwhile CNN of the Middle East. As Al-Jazeera (the FOX News of the Middle East?) reflects on the reasons why it got scooped by its counterpart, viewers across the Middle East will evaluate Obama as he tries to…
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Revolutionary Road
I’ve tried to avoid the hype. I don’t wear Che T-shirts, and there are no pictures of Che Guevara on my walls. Although I spent 10 years researching the Argentine doctor-turned revolutionary, I don’t know if I’ll go see Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour biopic, Che, based on the real-life adventures of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. I know…
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Race Doesn't Matter?
What a difference a year makes—this week marks the first anniversary of not only The Root, but President Barack Obama’s sweeping victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary, a drama-filled event that brought our nation’s racial fears, assumptions, long-held grievances—and an abundance of hope—into the winter sunlight. But do the words chanted by thousands on…
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Sundance loves Chris Rock's Good Hair
Sundance honored Chris Rock’s documentary Good Hair over the weekend with A Special Jury Prize for U.S. Documentaries. Apparently, Good Hair was one the most talked about projects up there in Utah. And that’s no surprise. Black folks love or hate us some “good hair”. The documentary, inspired by Rock’s daughter’s disappointment in not having…
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The Obama Health Challenge
As the most visible and influential people in America right now, Michelle and Barack Obama have the unique opportunity to set the tone for our nation and remake our country’s landscape. That includes not just the nation’s wealth, but also Americans’ health. Of course, the Obamas are a successful, professional couple with young children. But they also face…
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The New Black Manhood
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on THE NEW BLACK MANHOOD with The Root’s Marjorie Valbrun. Many Americans have undoubtedly had an Obama Meltdown Moment by now. It’s that instance when the unimaginable hugeness of the past year, the past few months and the past few days suddenly hits you and you say to yourself,…
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Post-Inaugural Meltdown
My head aches. My legs throb. I want to sleep but can’t. I’m not hungry and don’t want to drink. But, boy, am I happy. I’m no doctor, but I believe I’m suffering from one doozy of an emotional breakdown. Even now, exactly seven days after the Obama family spent their first night in the…
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Blagojevich to self: "Why Not Oprah?
The unflappable governor-under-fire Rod Blagojevich confided in Diane Sawyer this morning that he had consider asking Oprah Winfrey to take Barack Obama’s vacant senate seat. Seriously. This sends signals of the insanity plea to come, as we all know that besides the fact that Oprah Winfrey has rocks for brains, she is atalk-show host, not…