So when I saw the following photo, I was caught totally off guard by how blatantly racist the whole scene is. Black cake, white teeth, a lot of smiling laughing faces in the crowd which look, without any context, like they are making a mockery of black women at the...
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A few weeks ago I took a little heat for posting the following to my Facebook page: Herman Cain is surging because when he speaks he makes sense and is not pandering. Some of the comments I received went like this: Really, Shawn? I hope you are being sarcastic…Please tell...
The Wire Readers of The Root.com have already weighed in on their opinions of President Barack Obama just in time for his State of the Union adddress tonight. The Root.com recently released the results of its extensive reader survey gauging how people assess President Obama’s achievements, exactly two years after...
From the Dallas South Newswire Newsmaker Shirley Sherrod is set to appear before thousands of journalists on Thursday, July 29 at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Annual Convention in San Diego, Calif. Sherrod has made headlines over the past two weeks for her forced resignation from the U.S....
Today on CNN, Memphis Tea Party founder Mark Skoda and Washington Bureau NAACP Director Hilary Shelton agreed to “find a more common ground together” in a conversation today with TJ Holmes in the CNN Newsroom.
Pin a few dollars on his lapel under his flag pin, President Obama turned 48 today. Check his belly button was he really born though? If so, he couldn’t have been born in the U.S……maybe Hawaii. So to President Barack Obama, I say, HAPPY BIRTHDAY….wherever you were born. Photo: Alex...
“Charlie gives this talk, ‘We do something special at Notre Dame,’ and (the players) get up and they do this little cheer … this little fa**** dance.” University of Hawaii Head Football Coach Greg McMackin [Had I] been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would...
Henry Louis Gates released a statement to TheRoot.com (which was sent to Dallas South) regarding the President’s invitation to have a beer at the White House with the officer who arrested him. Gates,Editor-in-Chief of The Root., accepted President Obama’s offer. “It was very kind of the President to phone me...
One of the biggest complaints that I heard regarding last year’s groundbreaking spcecial Black in America on CNN, was that it painted the African-American community with a negative brush. Struggling fathers and mothers, Black women who can’t find a man, people in prison, the argument was there for the making....
