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LGBT People of Color Need More Than Health Insurance

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Jeff Krehely - Feb. 16 (News) - The health care debate is still raging across the country, and ensuring that it moves forward so that all Americans have access to affordable and high-quality health insurance is a critical first step.

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Michelle Obama’s Healthy Food Campaign

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Dayo Olopade - Jan. 31 (News) - Michelle Obama is using food to address the epidemic of childhood obesity that has gripped the country.

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How Barack Obama Is Paving the Way for a Palin Presidency

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Jon Jeter - Jan. 27 (Opinion) - It does not take a pollster, partisan or psychic to see a harbinger of things to come in Massachusetts voters’ choice of a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. If Barack Obama’s next three years in the White House are anything like his first, he will surely be a one-term president.

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How Martha Coakley Saved Barack Obama

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By David Swerdlick - Jan. 21 (Opinion) - Any Massachusetts voter who pulled the lever for Sen. John McCain in 2008 and Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown in 2010 is on pretty firm ground. They didn’t want Obama then—and they don’t want him now. Voters who chose President Barack Obama but

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Security Fears Mount in Post-Quake Haiti

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By By the Buzz - Jan. 18 (Breaking News) - With relief efforts slowed by the devastation, security fears are on the rise as Haitians struggle to survive.

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Saving Haiti

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Joel Dreyfuss - Jan. 13 (Opinion) - Some countries are just not lucky. Haiti is one of those places where bad things keep happening. The massive earthquake that destroyed a large part of the 250-year-old capital city, Port-au-Prince, is just the latest blow for a country that can ill

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Why President Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:39:11 -0700

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Taking Back the House—The On-Screen and Real-Life Politics of Bill Cosby

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:53:08 -0700

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A summer of race talk

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Sherrilyn A. Ifill - Aug. 10 (Opinion) - Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court justice. The Cambridge police dropped the charges against Professor Henry “Skip” Gates, an action supported by the mounting evidence that he was the subject of a false and racially charged arrest.

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Why NASA's Moon Landing is the Wrong Model for Science in America

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Dayo Olopade - Jul. 20 (Opinion) - “We are attempting to develop major new systems with ten-year technology, eight-year programs, a five year plan, three-year people, and one-year dollars,” he wrote. What’s more, large, corporate contractors dominate the federal procurement process —hiking up the costs of aerospace technology for taxpayers. The consequences of this lax management can be both embarrassing and deeply wasteful: It took engineers six costly tries to get the shuttle Endeavor, carrying the last Japanese pieces of the International Space Station, into orbit last week.

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Obama at the NAACP Convention: Racism's Real, Deal With It

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Kai Wright - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - It’s classic Obama, in that it rises above the fray of an old debate by declaring everybody the winner. In this case, the shouting match he wants to end surrounds the question of opportunity. Do individuals or the inequalities into which they’re born matter most? The president comes down squarely in the middle—or, to borrow as he did from MLK, it’s both/and.

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Why Sen. Graham Got It Wrong

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Sherilynn Ifill - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - The evidence contradicts any assertion that racially insensitive remarks are an automatic career killer for white men.

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The Judge They Feared

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Sherrilyn A. Ifill - May. 27 (Opinion) - Sonia Sotomayor is a powerful woman with a powerful story, who represents in many ways the arc of Latino struggle in this country. Her nomination Tuesday by President Barack Obama has the potential to galvanize and strengthen Latino voters in this country and to firmly lock the Latino vote into the Democratic Party column in a way that may be irreversible for a generation or more.

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Environment Justice, Blacks and the Green Movement

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Kai Wright - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - "Polar bears will not be the biggest victims of global warming," Ellis-Lamkins said. "People will be the biggest victims—ourselves, our children and grandchildren. And as Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, it will be poor people and people of color who are hit hardest."

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It’s Tax Day, Did You File for EITC?

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Stacey Tisdale - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - The Earned Income Tax Credit is a tax credit for low- to moderate-income individuals and families. Congress originally passed EITC legislation in 1975 to, in part, offset the burden of Social Security taxes.

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Young, Broke and Baby on Board

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Michael Arceneaux - Mar. 25 (Comment) - “My post-college financial woes actually hit me before this monster of a recession grabbed a hold of the economy. I graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park with a Journalism degree in spring of 2006. Following graduation I took a month off and went overseas for a brief study abroad, telling myself I’d hit the ground running when I returned to look for a job.

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Approaching the Whites-Only Bench

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - For state court watchers, last month provided a rare and historic moment to savor: A black governor was tasked with replacing the most powerful judge in the state, who happened to be a woman. Another small chance to make history, perhaps?

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More Than Beads, Booze and Boobs

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Chandra R. Thomas - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - There is admittedly a Girls Gone Wild element to Mardi Gras. You know, the intoxicated young women raising their shirts for beads and engaging in salacious sexual activity on the streets. That may be so for many tourists, but for natives like my family, Mardi Gras is a family-bonding time: cooking out and dancing to the bands marching by, all the while screaming for the beads and other trinkets thrown from the vibrantly decorated floats. I have never once seen anyone in my family flash their assets, to claim worthless, plastic jewelry.

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The GOP’s Nutty Negro

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Lawrence Bobo - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - There is a viciously insidious strain of racism just beneath the surface of these vile allegations about President Obama’s citizenship that bears focusing on, even if the initial impulse is to dismiss them as the ravings of a nut job. It is little surprise that Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby would be among those helping to stoke such insipid rumblings, or that former Republican Party chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour would be among those suggesting that his state might not accept stimulus-package funds. Recall that over 90 percent of white voters in Alabama voted against Obama.

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The Hannity Hate Machine

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Sophia A. Nelson - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - The problem with black people’s allegiance to liberal ideology, liberal media and Democratic Party politics is that is forces us into a scary kind of “group think” that blinds us to other viable policies, options and points of view that may be of some benefit to us as a whole.

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Don't Protest the New York Post

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Lenny McAllister - Feb. 20 (Opinion) - If we are going to protest, let’s use the energy from our disgust from the New York Post’s cartoon to protest the conditions in our streets, in our communities and in our communities’ schools.

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Busted Brand

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael E. Ross - Sep. 05 (Opinion) - Fast forward to St. Paul, where a bad representation got worse. There are just 36 black delegates at the Republican Convention this year, 1.5 percent of the total delegates, according to a Aug. 29 report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington. "The 36 black delegates in 2008 represent a 78.4 percent decline from the 167 black delegates at the 2004 GOP convention," the Joint Center reported.

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