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An Eco-Soul Holiday Menu
MENU: — Winter Sangria— Spicy Goobers— BBQ Chicken Skewers— Pan-Fried Coconut Tempeh Fingers with Creamy Celeriac Sauce— Citrus Collards with Raisins Bruschetta— Baked Sweet Potato Fries with Ginger-Peanut Dipping Sauce— Money Green Champagne Winter Sangria Yield: enough to get you niceSoundtrack: “Brooklyn Go Hard” by Jay-Z featuring Santogold from Notorious I created this a few years…
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Guess Who's Coming to Inauguration?
A large chunk of the program for Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration was announced today. Liberal groups greeted the news that evangelical pastor Rick Warren, of Saddleback Church in California, will deliver the invocation with responses ranging from “grave disappointment” to cries of “BS.” But close observers of Obama’s rise should not be surprised by…
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UK to Pull Troops From Iraq
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown teamed up with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to announce the withdrawal of British troops by July 2009. Amidst some criticism from British conservatives, Brown reports that his troops have completed their job. When I saw this on BBC, I wondered: “Where is the ‘Mission Accomplished‘ banner? Why isn’t he…
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Carpooling with Canadians
It’s easy to forget about Canada these days. Despite the fact that many Americans can actually see it from their windows, most of us get little news about our neighbor. With so much chaos in the world—a global financial meltdown, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, terror attacks in Mumbai, riots in Greece—the lack of focus…
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Dolls Like Me
As the mother of two daughters, holiday shopping has now turned into an annual quest for black dolls. And not just any black dolls. I’m not talking about those white dolls that look like they’ve been dipped in chocolate or dyed that ubiquitous shade of candy-bar brown in an effort to pass for black. I’m…
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Barack, Sit Down With Damon!
Dear Transition Team, Okay, so you haven’t granted The Root an interview yet, but we’re willing yo wait our turn if you sit down with Damon Weaver, a 10-year-old student reporter at Canal Point Elementary in Palm Beach, Fla., who is coming to Washington for the inauguration. Yes, he’s only in the fifth grade, but…
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Kanye's Pity Party
For those who like to draw a line in the sand to distinguish between “real” hip-hop and that which is not-so-real, Kanye West has shown a consistent ability to blur the line. Since his 2004 breakthrough album, The College Dropout, there have been many rap artists as prolific and visible. But where so many of…
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Why Don't We Throw Shoes at People?
After an Iraqi journalist pelted a shoe at President Bush in a press conference yesterday, the New York Times reports that “Hitting someone with a shoe is a strong insult in Iraq. It means the person is as low as the dirt underneath the sole of a shoe.” My question is: Why is the first…
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Tips on Tipping
If the people who deliver your newspaper, cut your grass (or your hair) or hold open the door to your apartment building suddenly become much cheerier around the holidays, it could be the spirit of the season—or it could be they’re hoping for a holiday tip. In some parts of the country, tipping is welcome…