FCC Expected To OK 'Net Neutrality' Rules Today
08:55 am
December 21, 2010
There's important news ahead today on the issue of "net neutrality," which as NPR's Laura Sydell says on The Record has both sides of a contentious debate saying that " ...
Posted Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 1:22PM
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Haley Barbour needs a civil rights history lesson
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
8:45 AM on 12/21/2010
In a recent article in the Weekly Standard entitled "The Boy from Yazoo City", Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governo ...
Posted Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 12:10PM
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Chinese Chess
12:00 AM, Dec 18, 2010 • By IRWIN M. STELZERS Text
The Chinese are playing grandmaster chess against an amateur America that can’t see beyond the second move. In a bipartisan display of geopolitical obtuseness, America continues ...
Posted Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 10:01AM
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9-year-old girl who saved family from fire gets early Christmas
By theGrio
5:08 PM on 12/20/2010
Christmas came early for a brave Florida girl and her family. The 9-year-old helped her siblings and cousins escape a house fire last month. The ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 6:30PM
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Republicans Likely Winners In New Census Count
by Brian Naylor
December 20, 2010
Which States Gained Seats Last Time?
After the 2000 Census — which put the official U.S. population at 281,421,906, a 13.2 percentage increase from 1990 — eigh ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 3:54PM
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Time after time, day after day, generation after generation, the relationship refrain of “don’t settle” is rehearsed in splendor over and over. It’s at the point when story after story enters the eardrum with hope of a fresh lesson and engenders a si ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 1:27PM
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Living Forward with Ne-Yo: 'Let's help inspire youth to greatness'
By Todd Johnson
10:00 AM on 12/20/2010
Christmas in Brooklyn, New York came a week early for some kids -- and a Grammy winner was more than happy to play Santa Claus.
Bu ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 11:10AM
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OPINION DECEMBER 20, 2010 The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom
'Net neutrality' sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers.
By ROBERT M ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 10:50AM
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Do You Know a Young Star of the Future?
By: The Root Staff | Posted: November 29, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Our future, we know, belongs to the young. That is why The Root has decided to put the spotlight on the leaders of tomorrow.
We want you ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 9:49AM
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Food Safety Sneak Attack! Passed by Unanimous Consent
Barbara H. Peterson
How many times does Congress have to stick it to us before we realize that this body politic has no other function than to obey its corporate masters? If you think that ...
Posted Monday, December 20th 2010 at 8:46AM
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Wikileaks' Assange's Lawyer has connections to Rothschilds
It has emerged recently that Assange is in the UK since October which means that all those three successive and massive US documents "leaks" have been orchestrated by him from his secret ...
Posted Sunday, December 19th 2010 at 12:58PM
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Beautyshop Buzz: How are you spending the holidays?
By theGrio
8:12 AM on 12/17/2010
What do snowfall, candy canes and the smell of fresh pine all have in common? If you said the holidays you guessed right.
So, what are your plans for the ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 9:38PM
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Woman busted for setting boyfriend's crotch ablaze
By theGrio
4:04 PM on 12/17/2010
If the John Wayne Bobbit story has taught men anything, it's to never fall asleep with an angry woman nearby.
But a Fort Lauderdale man whose angry girlfr ...
Posted Saturday, December 18th 2010 at 9:26PM
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Student athlete banned from team because of hair braids
By Joshua Van Heidrich
5:12 PM on 12/16/2010
The school officials in Auburn, Ala. are standing by a policy that seems to be racially discriminatory toward basketball players that wear ...
Posted Thursday, December 16th 2010 at 7:59PM
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Kanye West ‘Christmas In Harlem’ ft Teyana Taylor
Posted on December 15, 2010 by Harlem World
Kanye West’s been absent from the spotlight the past couple of weeks. But here’s a brand new track called ‘Christmas In Harlem’ featuring Harlem girl ...
Posted Thursday, December 16th 2010 at 10:43AM
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Caught on tape: Basketball player bodyslams referee
By theGrio
12:31 PM on 12/15/2010
A high school basketball player could face criminal charges after throwing a referee to the ground. The incident occurred during a game between Florida's Po ...
Posted Thursday, December 16th 2010 at 10:14AM
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US will lose AAA credit rating, says M&G's Jim Leaviss
A leading fund manager has warned that the world's largest economy will be downgraded within two years because of its high levels of debt.
By Philip Aldrick 6:11AM GMT 15 Dec 2010
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Posted Wednesday, December 15th 2010 at 5:13PM
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Columbia’s Expansion Allowed By Supreme Court
Posted on December 14, 2010 by Harlem World
(this is) … the second time in less than three years that the nation’s highest court has refused to question a multibillion-dollar New York City project.
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Posted Wednesday, December 15th 2010 at 1:58PM
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Black hair products may sacrifice safety for style
By Jennifer H. Cunningham
8:18 AM on 12/15/2010
From the time she was a small child until she was a teenager, Annmarie Spellen chemically straightened her hair -- a process that left her nursi ...
Posted Wednesday, December 15th 2010 at 1:18PM
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Patience and passion finally pay off for R&B vet Tank
By Todd Johnson
10:00am 12/14/10
Slick melodies of sex and seduction have been second nature to r&b singer Tank for the last decade.
His latest album, Now or Never, features collaborat ...
Posted Tuesday, December 14th 2010 at 1:12PM
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The Death Of Common Sense
12-13-10
Obituary
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureauc ...
Posted Tuesday, December 14th 2010 at 7:43AM
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