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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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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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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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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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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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