Black perpectives on politics, culture, and history.

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• It Took the Senate 146 Years To Apologize for Slavery. Better Late Than Never. 
  June 18, 2009
  
• War Criminal Charles Taylor Has Converted to Judaism? 
  June 11, 2009
  
• Why Is the CW Cancelling All of Its Black Shows? 
  June 2, 2009
  
• Why Black Women and White Women Don't Get Along 
  May 27, 2009
  
• The Rise of the Black Hipster 
  May 18, 2009
  
• Father-Daughter Bonding: We're Both Unemployed 
  May 13, 2009
  
• How Obama Will Make Things Right With Black Farmers 
  May 12, 2009
  
• 100 Days of Michelle Obama's Outfits. A Gallery. 
  April 30, 2009
  
• The Root 
  April 17, 2009
  
• The Root 
  April 10, 2009
  
• The New Pill That Could Cure Kleptomania 
  April 9, 2009
  
• Did Madame Tussauds Lighten Michelle Obama's Skin? 
  April 9, 2009
  
• Let Madonna Adopt a Malawian Baby if She Wants To 
  April 7, 2009
  
• How the Black Power Movement Helped Bring About the Obama Presidency 
  April 3, 2009
  
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. Eulogizes John Hope Franklin 
  March 31, 2009
  
• Latest Recession Casualty: Historically Black Colleges 
  March 31, 2009
  
• What You Can Learn About the Economy From Black Women's Hairstyles 
  March 25, 2009
  
• Think You Can Ride Out the Recession in Grad School? Think Again. 
  March 24, 2009
  
• Why Would Magic Johnson Push Loans That Hurt Low-Income Blacks? 
  March 24, 2009
  
• The Root 
  March 20, 2009
  
• Why Didn't You Fill Out a Bracket for the NCAA Women's Tournament? 
  March 19, 2009
  
• Newspaper Closings: Bad for Journalists, Really Bad for Black Journalists 
  March 19, 2009
  
• The Root 
  March 13, 2009
  
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Black America's First Mortgage Crisis 
  March 11, 2009
  
• How the New Deal Hurt Black Americans 
  March 10, 2009
  
• The Root 
  March 6, 2009
  
• How Your Donated Clothes Are Hurting Africans 
  March 5, 2009
  
• Naming a Gay White Man as AIDS Czar Is So 1996 
  March 2, 2009
  
• Why Obama's Keeping Bush's Faith-Based Initiative 
  Feb. 27, 2009
  
• Venus and Serena Excluded From List of Top 10 Tennis Hotties? Sheesh. 
  Feb. 25, 2009
  
• What Obama Needs To Say in Tonight's Address 
  Feb. 24, 2009
  
• Eric Holder's Race Speech Was Better Than Obama's 
  Feb. 20, 2009
  
• The Root 
  Feb. 20, 2009
  
• The Political Has-Been Who Got a Second Chance and Blew It 
  Feb. 17, 2009
  
• I Spent a Year Asking My Exes Why They Dumped Me 
  Feb. 13, 2009
  
• Should Quincy Jones Be Secretary of Culture? 
  Feb. 11, 2009
  
• Why White People Love Black History Month 
  Feb. 10, 2009
  
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Was Lincoln Racist? 
  Feb. 9, 2009
  
• The Root 
  Feb. 6, 2009
  
• Diseases That Young Black Children Shouldn't Be Dying From 
  Feb. 4, 2009
  
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Was Lincoln Racist? 
  Feb. 3, 2009
  
• Can Electing a Black RNC Chairman Save the Republican Party? 
  Feb. 3, 2009
  
• Wall Street Needs To Give Back Its Bonuses 
  Jan. 30, 2009
  
• Want To Work in the Obama White House? Did You Go to Chicago's Lab School? 
  Jan. 30, 2009
  
• The NFL Still Needs More Black Coaches 
  Jan. 30, 2009
  
• How Republicans Can Woo Black Voters 
  Jan. 28, 2009
  
• Why President Obama Should Have a Colonoscopy Now 
  Jan. 27, 2009
  
• The Root 
  Jan. 23, 2009
  
• The Root 
  Jan. 23, 2009
  
• How History Will Judge Obama's Speech 
  Jan. 22, 2009
  
• The Root TK 
  Jan. 21, 2009
  
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the History of Blacks in the White House 
  Jan. 20, 2009
  
• Husband-Hunting at the Inauguration 
  Jan. 16, 2009
  
• A Q&A With Inauguration Poet Elizabeth Alexander 
  Jan. 16, 2009
  
• An Excerpt From Gwen Ifill's New Book on Obama 
  Jan. 15, 2009
  
• Ooh La La! The New Miss France Is Black. 
  Jan. 14, 2009
  
• Did Black Women Fall for Obama as Soon as They Saw Michelle? 
  Jan. 13, 2009
  
• Why Malia's Hair Speaks to Me 
  Jan. 13, 2009
  
• Quit Comparing Obama to Abe Lincoln Already 
  Jan. 9, 2009
  
• Happy 50th Birthday, Motown! 
  Jan. 9, 2009
  
• How To Make Slavery Reparations Happen: Call It a Bailout 
  Jan. 8, 2009
  
• Will My Cell Phone Work at the Inauguration? 
  Jan. 7, 2009
  
• Young, Gifted, and Black—and Working in the Obama Administration 
  Jan. 6, 2009
  
• Help! I Have Way Too Many People Staying at My Place for Inauguration. 
  Jan. 6, 2009