12/31/2009 - What to Do in the 1-0

12/31/2009 - LeBron James: A Fan of the Subtle

12/31/2009 - Our Keith Bardwell Problem

12/31/2009 - President Obama's Letter to the CIA

12/31/2009 - No Questions! No Questions!

12/31/2009 - A Highly Opinionated Take on the Top 10 Movies of the Decade

12/31/2009 - So...Fox News Is...Real Reporting Now?

12/31/2009 - Skip Gates: The Movie!

12/31/2009 - NEWS STAND: Who Lost Abdulmuttalab? Mass Murder, European Style

12/30/2009 - Seem Grimy, You'll Last Longer

12/30/2009 - 14 Science and Technology Leaders You Need to Know

12/30/2009 - "The Nigerian Lawyered Up"

12/30/2009 - Why Stanley Crouch Is Wrong About Bette Davis

12/30/2009 - The Root Interview: Claude Steele on How Racial Stereotypes Harm Performance

12/30/2009 - 'Thriller' Named to Film Registry

12/30/2009 - Top 10 Sports Triumphs of the ‘00s

12/30/2009 - Nigeria to Buy 3-D Body Scanners for Airports

12/30/2009 - Listen Up! New Airport Scanners Considered 'Intrusive'

12/30/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: The Lorenzo Pace Interview

12/29/2009 - The Underwear Bomber has 287 Facebook Friends

12/29/2009 - Obama Acknowledges “Systemic Failure” on Terror Suspect

12/29/2009 - The Best Year-End Review That You Don't Have To Read

12/29/2009 - Moralist Karl Rove Gets Second Divorce

12/29/2009 - Check It Out: The Paths We Tread

12/29/2009 - Top 10 Hip-Hop/R&B Songs of the '00s

12/29/2009 - ...And Now They Really Hate You, Elderick

12/29/2009 - Avatar = Dances with Wolves v. 2.0?

12/29/2009 - Jim DeMint v. Baggage Handlers

12/29/2009 - Reviewing Pop Culture in the ‘00s

12/29/2009 - Somali Pirates Don't Get the Memo, Seize Two Ships

12/29/2009 - NEWS STAND: Debating America's Safety, The Newest Indian Tribe, China Executes Briton for Drug Smuggling

12/28/2009 - The Decade in Race: WTF Was That?

12/28/2009 - The Republican Right: Al-Qaeda’s Unwitting Hype Men?

12/28/2009 - Yemen Gets It Poppin' On the Terror Tip

12/28/2009 - Jesus of Nazareth: "I Ain't Die For This"

12/28/2009 - Percy Sutton: Through the Years

12/28/2009 - Holocaust Survivor Stages Hunger Strike for Gaza

12/28/2009 - The Boomers Broke It; Can Gen X-ers Fix It?

12/27/2009 - NEWS STAND: Mexico Reconsiders Drug War; Dennis Brutus, 85; Percy Sutton, 89.

12/26/2009 - A New Terror Threat?

12/26/2009 - Nigerian Man Held in Terror Attempt

12/26/2009 - Bette Davis: The Greatest White Bitch of All

12/25/2009 - NEWS STAND: A Present for Obama, Big Paydays for Freddie and Fannie, Freedom in China, Facebook Dissent in Egypt

12/24/2009 - Health Care Reform: The Political Surprise of the Year?

12/24/2009 - Happy Holidays, from the cast of ___!

12/24/2009 - When the Tsunami Hit

12/23/2009 - Prison Births: Chained to an Inhumane Idea

12/23/2009 - The Ann Nixon Cooper I Knew

12/23/2009 - Beef 2.0: The Year in Media 2009

12/23/2009 - The 2000s: The Erasure of Boundaries

12/23/2009 - Claude Steele and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

12/23/2009 - FBI Releases Michael Jackson File

12/23/2009 - A Decade To Remember

12/23/2009 - 10 Very Last Minute Gift Ideas

12/23/2009 - Crazy Makes Threat at First Lady

12/23/2009 - HP Webcam Racially Profiles, Freezes in Fear

12/23/2009 - The Best and Worst Christmas Stories

12/22/2009 - T’was the Night Before Health Care...

12/22/2009 - Quiet Goodnight for Boys Choir of Harlem

12/22/2009 - Mexico City Legalizes Gay Marriage

12/22/2009 - When the Videotape Lies

12/22/2009 - Ann Louise Nixon Cooper 1902-2009

12/22/2009 - Facebooking is a Freedom Worth Defending!

12/22/2009 - Obama: "Danny Glover Who?"

12/22/2009 - NEWS STAND: France's New Black Star, U.S. Justice Toughens Stand on Hate Crimes ...

12/22/2009 - Pregnancy Could Mean Court-Martial for GIs in Iraq

12/22/2009 - Closing Up Shop

12/22/2009 - More Than Words

12/21/2009 - Nine Things We Didn’t See in ’09

12/21/2009 - Why Democrats Deserve a Pat on the Back for The Health Care Bill

12/21/2009 - We'd Love to Help, But This Danish...

12/21/2009 - Who Is This GI?

12/21/2009 - Reform Bill Clears Major Senate Hurdle

12/21/2009 - DC Residents Bring Snow to a Gun Fight!

12/21/2009 - Letter From Jo’burg

12/21/2009 - 10 Lessons From Copenhagen

12/21/2009 - NEWS STAND: Health Care Advances, Death Sentences Drop, Minority Farmers Sue, French Debate Identity

12/20/2009 - Winners and Losers in Copenhagen

12/19/2009 - NEWS STAND: Tiger Woods Wins and Loses, Racism in China, Quads Admitted to Yale, Grading Obama

12/19/2009 - Dedicated Hybrid

12/19/2009 - Green Input, Luxe Output

12/18/2009 - The Ties That Bind: Copenhagen Climate Accord Targets Global Warming

12/18/2009 - The M Word: Talking Marriage and Monogamy in the Time of Tiger Woods

12/18/2009 - The Confab -- Dec. 18, 2009

12/18/2009 - #themonogamydebate

12/18/2009 - DC Mayor Signs Gay Marriage Bill

12/18/2009 - Government to Judge: Cut ACORN's Funding

12/18/2009 - Gitmo Lets Six Go

12/18/2009 - Black Men Running the Field

12/18/2009 - Big-Time College Sports: A Waste for Many Athletes

12/18/2009 - Avatar: A New Standard in Moviemaking

12/17/2009 - Reform Movement Socks It to Lieberman (Video)

12/17/2009 - Man Exonerated After 35 Years, Court Registers Epic Fail

12/17/2009 - Check It Out: On the Corner

12/17/2009 - Minority Businesses Shut Out from Stimulus

12/17/2009 - FLASH: Tiger Woods Seeks Asylum in France

12/17/2009 - Lee Daniels Passed Over by Golden Globes

12/17/2009 - BREAKING: Bengals Receiver Dies After Fall from Truck

12/17/2009 - US Commits 100 Billi to Poor Nations for Climate Change

12/16/2009 - Bengals Receiver Seriously Injured After Domestic Dispute

12/16/2009 - The Prez in Denmark

12/16/2009 - Tiger and Obama: Fallen Black Role Models?

12/16/2009 - FBI Kept Tabs on John Hope Franklin

12/16/2009 - Search Expanding for Missing Boy

12/16/2009 - Listen Up: Critics of Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill Silenced

12/16/2009 - NEWS STAND: D.C. OKs Same-Sex, Yes to Bananas, Non to Racism, Soft Radio

12/16/2009 - Bill Prospects Improve as Dems Bend to Lieberman

12/16/2009 - Iran Successfully Tests Long-Range Missiles

12/16/2009 - 12 Cheeses of Christmas

12/16/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: The Carrie Mae Weems Interview

12/15/2009 - Sexscapades: The Most Scandalous Politicians of the Decade

12/15/2009 - ‘Invictus:’ Just Short of Its Goal

12/15/2009 - DC Council Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill

12/15/2009 - Judith Jamison: Exiting Ailey

12/15/2009 - Check It Out: Joe on Joe

12/15/2009 - Friendly Fire?

12/15/2009 - The Root's 12 Days of Christmas

12/15/2009 - Check It Out: Living Colour Frontman Talks 'Cult of Personality'

12/15/2009 - Whaaaat? Barack Obama Has White Relatives?!

12/15/2009 - DC Same-Sex Marriage Vote Tuesday

12/15/2009 - Illinois Goes Gitmo: State to Receive Guantanamo Detainees

12/15/2009 - Tongue Twisters

12/15/2009 - 25 Years Later: Remembering The Movement that Unraveled Apartheid

12/14/2009 - And We Shopped Happily Ever After

12/14/2009 - Joe Wants to Filibuster. Why Not Let Him?

12/14/2009 - And the Side Eye Award goes to...

12/14/2009 - Check It Out: Lieberman Endorses Medicare Buy-In

12/14/2009 - Blog Noir: Disappointment Is the Recurrent Black

12/14/2009 - NEWS STAND: Hot Copenhagen, Indian Gangs, NY Guv Closes the Purse, Paris Drug Parlors

12/14/2009 - Say No to Rudy

12/14/2009 - Why Black Folks Should Celebrate Houston’s Gay Mayor

12/14/2009 - Obama Grades Himself During Oprah Christmas Special

12/14/2009 - Check It Out: Obama a Tad Lathered Up

12/14/2009 - Rwandan Journalist Gets Life Sentence

12/14/2009 - A Juvenile Solution

12/14/2009 - Whistling Dixie: Race Barriers in Post-Obama South

12/14/2009 - Obama Is Treading Water

12/14/2009 - Check It Out: Kennedy Center Honorees at the White House

12/14/2009 - As a Matter of Fact, Don't 'Be a Tiger'

12/14/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: The Camille Billops Interview

12/13/2009 - The Jacksons' Reality Show: My New Guilty Pleasure?

12/13/2009 - Hold That Tiger

12/11/2009 - Black, Successful and Lonely

12/11/2009 - Check It Out: Colbert Chin-Checks GOP

12/11/2009 - Tiger Putting Himself on Time Out

12/11/2009 - Michael Steele: Chairman...of Wackiness!

12/11/2009 - The CBC Sit-Out: Will it Last?

12/11/2009 - The Confab -- Dec. 11, 2009

12/11/2009 - When I Lost My Job

12/11/2009 - The Frugalista's Gift Guide

12/11/2009 - Justice Department Won't Pardon Jack Johnson

12/11/2009 - NEWS STAND: Facebook Terrorists, Freeing D.C., and the Latino-Americano Label

12/11/2009 - Anika Noni Rose Talks About ‘The Princess and The Frog’

12/11/2009 - Shunning the Web

12/11/2009 - The Froggiest of Them All

12/10/2009 - The Obama Effect and Black Quarterbacks

12/10/2009 - Obama's Peace Prize Speech Text

12/10/2009 - NEWS STAND: Obama's Speech, Caucus Friction, Atlanta Stays Black, China in Africa

12/10/2009 - In Peace Prize Speech, Obama Proves a Student of War

12/10/2009 - And Now We're Post-Biracial

12/10/2009 - Talking Jobs

12/10/2009 - Gone, But Not Forgotten

12/10/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: The Yinka Shonibare Interview

12/10/2009 - Letter From Cambodia, Part 2

12/10/2009 - Check It Out: Activists Call on Obama for Climate Justice Leadership

12/10/2009 - Colored Gift Buying Made Easy

12/10/2009 - The CBC Sez: Obama Ain't Keepin' It Reeaah, He Ain't Representin'!

12/9/2009 - Climate “Reparations”?

12/9/2009 - NEWS STAND:Black Caucus vs Obama, Brazil's Violent Cops, Gumbel Ill, More Tiger

12/9/2009 - Gone, But Not Forgotten

12/9/2009 - Check It Out: White House Happy with Whatever the Senate's Done

12/9/2009 - Chicago Teen Shot in Head While Walking with Mom

12/9/2009 - Uganda Considers Making Homosexuality a Capital Offense

12/8/2009 - Letter From Cambodia

12/8/2009 - Check It Out: Rush Says We're Depressed about Tiger and Obama

12/8/2009 - At Least 112 Killed in Baghdad Blasts

12/8/2009 - Woman Taken by Ambulance from Tiger Woods' Home

12/8/2009 - Harry Reid's Slavery Analogy Not Well-Received by GOP

12/8/2009 - Copenhagen's Class Divisions

12/7/2009 - Grime: The Next British Invasion?

12/7/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: The Kara Walker Interview

12/7/2009 - Saturday Night Live Gets Laughs For Sketch About Abuse

12/7/2009 - Job Creation: Change Obama Needs To Believe In

12/7/2009 - Brother, Can You Spare a Job?

12/7/2009 - Iranian Police Crack Down on Student Protest

12/7/2009 - Malcolm X Drum Circle

12/7/2009 - Goodbye, 'Cablinasian'

12/7/2009 - Congrats, Tiger

12/4/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: Jesmyn Ward's 'Where the Line Bleeds'

12/4/2009 - 10 People We Don't Want To See in 2010

12/4/2009 - The Confab -- Dec. 4, 2009

12/4/2009 - Mira! Coping with Black Hair’s Dominican Invasion

12/4/2009 - The Sartorial Sportsman

12/4/2009 - Hip-Hop Across the Pond: A Black British Invasion?

12/3/2009 - The Oscars of Black Hair

12/3/2009 - Whose Michael Jackson Rendition Was Better?

12/3/2009 - Fort Hood Shooter Charged with Premeditated Murder

12/3/2009 - Ohio Serial Killer Says: I'm Nuts

12/3/2009 - Will Escalation Make a Difference?

12/3/2009 - 10 Grammy Nods for Beyonce, Swift Likely to Win Everything

12/3/2009 - Desiree Rogers' Teachable Moment

12/3/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: The Kerry James Marshall Interview

12/2/2009 - THE GRAND SET UP(?)

12/2/2009 - Desiree Rogers, You Might Be In Hot Water

12/2/2009 - New York Senate Puts Kibosh on Gay Marriage

12/2/2009 - To All the Kids Out There Dying To Be Rich and Famous

12/2/2009 - Ten Things You Could Learn from Tiger Woods

12/2/2009 - Aunt Jemima and Politics in Darktown

12/2/2009 - Senators Hopeful about Health Care Reform

12/2/2009 - Iran Prez: I See Your Uranium Enrichment and Raise You More of the Same!

12/2/2009 - Looking For a Job?

12/2/2009 - American Indian Health Care Could Be Upgraded with Reform

12/2/2009 - Little Richard Released from Hospital

12/2/2009 - Why The Salahis Should Go To Jail

12/2/2009 - BOMB THE ROOT: The bell hooks Interview

12/2/2009 - Never Too Late to Tell the Truth

12/1/2009 - Big Speech Fatigue?

12/1/2009 - Okay, fine. You're Cablinasian.

12/1/2009 - 10 Ways to Save Money, Keep Your Sexy, Heal the World

12/1/2009 - ‘What If They Lived?’

12/1/2009 - WORLD AIDS DAY: Tell Us Your Story

12/1/2009 - UPDATE: White House: "Who Said Three Years?"

12/1/2009 - Baltimore's Mayor Liked Gift Cards Too Much

12/1/2009 - Check It Out: Chris Rock Puts His Shoe in the Media

12/1/2009 - On World AIDS Day, R. Kelly Wants to Get You 'Pregnant'

12/1/2009 - South Africa to Treat All HIV-Positive Babies

12/1/2009 - Cop-Killing Suspect Shot Dead

12/1/2009 - When Santa Goes Green