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Oh, dear. It looks like President-elect Obama may be starting off on the wrong foot with the New York Times. How dare he not make time in his schedule to grant The Times’ White House correspondents their customary pre-inauguration interview? Even President Bush sat down with the “liberal media elite” days before he took his…
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Miss France and the New Black
Blackness is fast moving to the center of the world’s psyche. For proof, look no further than last month’s crowning of a binational and biracial Miss France 2009. Chloe Mortaud’s selection as the face of French beauty and elegance has so few precedents that the French media have named her, perhaps cheaply, “Miss Obama.” In…
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Sign Up for The Root’s Day of Service
TODAY, 12pm: Join the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on GOING GREEN FOR THE INAUGURATION with The Root’s associate editor Natalie Hopkinson and Washington Parks & People founder Steve Coleman. In the days leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama, Washington, D.C. will be transformed into one big, jubilant street festival. We at The Root have nothing…
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Beyonce Sings at the Lincoln Memorial – Say What?
So the Presidential Inaugural Committee has unveiled the Inaugural talent line up and guess who’s shaking her shimmy and belting out a few under Mister Emancipator himself… Beyonce. Now don’t get me wrong, I think Beyonce is talented. She can sing and dance in a style that can only originate in the basement of a…
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Cruising to Confirmation
Clinton is used to being a star on Capitol Hill, as yesterday was no exception and she began to lay out her vision and that of her president. She talked about engaging Iran, and not dealing with Hamas. She even, according to the New York Times, “struck a sharper tone toward Israel on violence in…
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Real Chance of ‘Glove’
Ann Coulter is still Ann Coulter—the same love-to-hate-her far right wing demagogue that she always was. But she’s enjoying something of a renaissance in the black community. First she was oh-so-tenderly depicted in season two of The Boondocks (“I fucks with these crab cakes”) and now she’s getting at least a modicum of traction for…
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What to do about Gitmo
Barack Obama started making me nervous with campaign-talk about closing Gitmo, and now it looks like it’s the first thing on his “to do” list. Sure, it’s a fine idea. Then, what do you DO with all those prisoners? It’s bad enough having fresh-out perverts and sex offenders moved into your neighborhood—then, you want to…
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Eddy Curry's having a rough patch
I gotta say that the gay sexual harassment charges against New York Knick Eddy Curry don’t pass muster. It sounds like a shake-down gone wild, where the accuser throws as many different types of offensive accusations in a bag and sets them on fire. The only thing missing are allegations of child pornography. It’s not…
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Sister Loss
My sister Annie Ruth Walker Hood died the morning of Dec. 27, 2008: Throughout the four days leading up to her death in Hospice, friends and I sat in ceremony, thousands of miles away, chanting, praying, meditating and speaking at times to her spirit and soul. It was a difficult transition for her; at the…
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No Need to Evacuate
The local highways will morph into parking lots, crammed with cars bumper to bumper. Bridges in Virginia will be blocked off. So, those Virginia drivers refuse to fight for air on a crowded Metro train, and decide to wait until the day of the inauguration to drive into D.C. will have to look on from…