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  • Bill Clinton Hospitalized with Chest Pains

    Bill Clinton is resting comfortably after experiencing chest pains which sent him to the hospital “President Clinton is in good spirits, and will continue to focus on the work of his Foundation and Haiti’s relief and long-term recovery efforts,” said adviser Doug Band said in a statement. He is expected to stay the night at…

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  • Read/React: "Free Sundiata Acoli"

    Assata Shakur co-defendant Sundiata Shakur is up for parole after 36 years. Thoughts?

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  • Meet the 'Faces of America': Elizabeth Alexander

    The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., launched a PBS show that builds on the success of his African-American Lives, a series that traced the ancestry of famous black Americans. His latest series, Faces of America, uses the same potent combination of traditional genealogical research and advanced DNA techniques to explore the immigrant origins of…

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  • The Food of Love: New Janelle Monae – "Tightrope"

    R&B songstress Janelle Monae chops it up with Big Boi of Outkast on her latest single “Tightrope.” Pitchfork embedding won’t let The Buzz be great, so you’ll have to click on through to check it out. Check out Janelle at AfroPunk 2009

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  • Air Goddesses: The History of Black Women in Flight

    Over on Suite 101, a nice write-up on Black women in aviation Make no mistake African-American women do fly planes, and in growing numbers greater than one might think! Surprising to many, black women have been earning their wings since 1921 when Bessie Coleman was licensed in Paris from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (F.A.I.), and…

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  • Check It Out: John Mayer Apologizes

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  • Let's Go Ahead and Boo Roy Williams

    In discussing his mediocre season to a room full of reporters on the eve of the Duke-North Carolina game, North Carolina head coach had this to say about his team’s sub-par conference record “Our massage therapist told me, ‘You know, coach, what happened in Haiti is a catastrophe. What you’re having is a disappointment,’ ”…

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  • Iraq to Blackwater: You May Go Now

    Iraq calls in Blackwater’s tab and says 250 current and former employees need be out of the country in seven days. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told the Associated Press news agency that all “concerned parties” were notified of the order three days ago. It comes after a US judge last December threw out manslaughter charges…

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  • Kadaffi Fails in Second Attempt to Chair African Union

    Libyan leader Moammar el Kaddafi wasn’t exactly a lion for African unity in his time as African Union chair and his colleagues let him know as much when they told him to go take a hike after attempting to chair a second term. From All Africa He flounced out of the AU summit in Addis…

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  • President Obama Meets With Black Leaders to Talk Black Jobs

    NAACP president Ben Jealous, president of the National Urban League and former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, and National Action Network head Al Sharpton headed to a snowed-over White House to discuss the disappointing job situation for black Americans. In advance of the meeting, Jealous told The Root that he planned “to talk about jobs…

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