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2009 July
7/31/2009 - Gates Sends Flowers to 911 Caller
7/31/2009 - What Kind Of A Person Cuts Funding For Battered Women's Shelters?!
7/31/2009 - The Confab -- July 31, 2009
7/31/2009 - Sincerely, The Blacks: Anti-Cap and Trade Lobbyists Forge Letter from NAACP
7/31/2009 - *Cueing Up Tirade* Obama's Sister Moving to DC!
7/31/2009 - The Hangover: White House Edition
7/31/2009 - You Can't Learn From a Sound Bite
7/31/2009 - Banking on the Off-Season
7/31/2009 - Taking Our Cues From Martin
7/30/2009 - Obama: Beer Meeting 'Thoughtful'
7/30/2009 - 'An Accident of Time and Place'
7/30/2009 - The White House Beerfest Gallery
7/30/2009 - Beer Goggles: The Lessons of Skip Gates' Arrest
7/30/2009 - Glenn Beck's Falling Down
7/30/2009 - Mansion of DC Arts Patron Burns
7/30/2009 - EBT For You And For Me
7/30/2009 - She's Focused, Man...
7/30/2009 - NYC Homeless Provided with One-Way Ticket Out
7/30/2009 - VIDEO: Joe Jackson Confirms MJ's Love Child in Interview
7/30/2009 - What about Shem?
7/30/2009 - Corrective Rape: An Ugly Contradiction
7/30/2009 - Remember When We Didn't Like Wall Street?
7/30/2009 - Has Anyone Noticed That Romeo Is Black?
7/30/2009 - Whose 'Teachable Moment' Is This?
7/29/2009 - Obama's Health Care Crusade
7/29/2009 - Black Faces on Covers Don't Sell Books?
7/29/2009 - Sgt. Crowley: No Racial Comments. A Fellow Cop...Not So Much
7/29/2009 - Caller in Gates Case: 'Hurt' by Racial Dispute
7/29/2009 - I'm Grown, But I Still Need A Roommate
7/29/2009 - Twitter Hi-Jinks: How Black Are You?
7/29/2009 - AKAs: Get Your Girl Post Haste
7/29/2009 - Has Schwarzenegger Lost His Mind?
7/29/2009 - Nigeria Tracking Down Islamist Fighters While the Block Cools Down a Bit
7/29/2009 - UPDATED VIDEO: Generally Speaking: Colin Powell on Arrest of Dr. Gates
7/29/2009 - 12-Year-Old Boston Girl Hit By Stray Bullet
7/29/2009 - Fix Your Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes
7/29/2009 - A Black and Tan on Tap at the White House
7/29/2009 - Why Can’t Ads Get Black Women Right?
7/29/2009 - Live From Washington, It's Urban Affairs
7/28/2009 - Ten Beers Likely To Impede Racial Harmony
7/28/2009 - Many Missing After Boat Capsizes Off Turks and Caicos
7/28/2009 - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest
7/28/2009 - An Equal and Opposite Overreaction
7/28/2009 - UPDATE: Sotomayor Passes Preliminary Confirmation Vote
7/28/2009 - Michael Jackson's Death: Addiction or Dr. Conrad Murray?
7/28/2009 - The Gates Case Roundup
7/28/2009 - Cheers! Here's to 'De-Escalation'
7/28/2009 - Nadya Suleman Steals a Page from Joe Jackson's Pimp Chronicles
7/28/2009 - Woman Dismembers Infant Son, Eats Brain
7/28/2009 - Clinton to Get Up with Somali President
7/28/2009 - It’s the Teachers, Stupid
7/28/2009 - Letting Science Lead, Again
7/28/2009 - Mos Def and the Boogeyman
7/28/2009 - 'Unknown on Race'
7/28/2009 - Profile Protocol
7/27/2009 - Wrist Slap for Idaho Cop Who Sexually Assaulted Suspect with Taser
7/27/2009 - If The Recession Is Over, Why Isn't Everyone Excited?
7/27/2009 - A Beer Bromance at the White House?
7/27/2009 - The Gates Case: What Went Wrong
7/27/2009 - 911 Caller Didn't Mention Race in Dispatch to Crowley
7/27/2009 - Race, Beer and an Unresolved Nation
7/27/2009 - South African Workers Strike; Jacob Zuma Not Too Pumped
7/27/2009 - 12 Shot at Baltimore Cookout
7/27/2009 - Set It Off: Clash Between Nigerian Muslims and Police Leaves Over 40 Dead
7/27/2009 - Ex-Boxing Champ Vernon Forrest Killed in Atlanta Carjacking
7/27/2009 - What Becomes of the Big-Hearted? A Tribute to E. Lynn Harris
7/27/2009 - Where Are the Black Bachelor(ettes)?
7/27/2009 - Beauty, the Brush and Black Girl Pain
7/27/2009 - The Place Where We All Can't Just Get Along
7/26/2009 - Obama Gets It
7/25/2009 - Gates Says 'Yes' to Beer With Crowley
7/25/2009 - E. Lynn Harris: 1955-2009
7/25/2009 - Why Obama Did Not, Should Not, Apologize to Officer Crowley
7/24/2009 - Valerie Jarrett: Third Obama or Third Wheel?
7/24/2009 - Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A Reaction Roundup
7/24/2009 - The Confab -- July 24, 2009
7/24/2009 - President Obama's Statement on the Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrest
7/24/2009 - Obama Calls Sgt. Crowley
7/24/2009 - VIDEO: Wedding Celebrates Chris Brown
7/24/2009 - Crowley Should Apologize Now
7/24/2009 - Author E. Lynn Harris Dead at 54
7/24/2009 - Gates Case: Should Obama Apologize?
7/24/2009 - Is Now The Time For A Pay Raise?
7/24/2009 - JERSEY!
7/24/2009 - The Police and the Black Imagination
7/24/2009 - Labor Pains Worth it: Kelis Nets $40k a Month from Nas
7/24/2009 - VIDEO: Rep. Gwen Moore Gets Her Dirty Harry on Regarding Health Care
7/24/2009 - Killers Jailed for Murdering Burundi Albinos, Selling Body Parts
7/24/2009 - VIDEO: Sexual Violence Rife in Congo Conflict
7/24/2009 - Ivory Coast Man Imprisoned for Match Stampede
7/24/2009 - Please, Professor Gates!
7/24/2009 - Will Downing in 'Classique' Form
7/24/2009 - Has L.A. Lost Its Spark?
7/23/2009 - Ain't No Country Like the One We Got: Obama Not Seeking Iraqi Territory
7/23/2009 - Four Boys, 9-14, Allegedly Rape 8-Year Old Girl
7/23/2009 - Woman Who Phoned Cops Wasn't a Neighbor
7/23/2009 - Officer Says He Won't Apologize
7/23/2009 - Obama's Money Machine: Now Running Foreign Policy?
7/23/2009 - Judge Tells DoJ to Get Its Life Together Regarding Gitmo Case
7/23/2009 - I Think I'll Stay In Mexico
7/23/2009 - Obama Admits Racial Profiling Has Gone Amok
7/23/2009 - A Dull Shade of 'Black'
7/23/2009 - If Words Could Heal, Obamacare Would Be Done
7/23/2009 - Healing Words
7/23/2009 - 'Black in America 2' in Review
7/23/2009 - Cambridge, Mississippi, Circa 1959
7/23/2009 - Guess Who's Live Tweeting 'Black in America 2' Tonight?
7/22/2009 - Obama Says Officer 'Acted Stupidly' in Arrest of Skip Gates
7/22/2009 - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write You a Letter)
7/22/2009 - Notes of an Uppity Negro
7/22/2009 - And Sonia Laughed: NY Judge Finds NYFD Exam Discriminatory Against Blacks, Hispanics
7/22/2009 - Toward a More Perfect Union?
7/22/2009 - Is Race-based Health Care a Prescription for Discrimination?
7/22/2009 - Whispers of Steven Biko: South African Discontent Rising
7/22/2009 - Seeing Black and Seeing Red
7/22/2009 - A Funeral Is Now A Privilege, Not A Right
7/22/2009 - VIDEO: Liz Cheney Down with the Birthers
7/22/2009 - When is The Right Time for Black Men to React?
7/22/2009 - Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Your Epithet Over! NOI, Panthers Clash with Klan
7/22/2009 - Beige in America
7/22/2009 - When "Sorry" Isn't Enough
7/22/2009 - Losing Your Cool in America
7/21/2009 - Skip Gates Speaks
7/21/2009 - This Week in Blackness: 1952 v. 2.0!
7/21/2009 - Charges Against Dr. Gates Dropped
7/21/2009 - What Do You Call a Black Man with a Ph.D.?
7/21/2009 - Joe Jackson: I Never Raised a (Pimp) Hand to Michael!
7/21/2009 - Gitmo Report Delayed for Six Months
7/21/2009 - Dr. Skip Gates and His Surprising Outrage
7/21/2009 - Art in Transit
7/21/2009 - Mommy and Daddy Are Fat
7/21/2009 - The Education of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
7/21/2009 - When Color Strikes--What Next?
7/21/2009 - Has The Economy Helped Gang Recruitment?
7/20/2009 - Lawyer's Statement on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
7/20/2009 - The Root's Editor-in-Chief Arrested
7/20/2009 - Calling a Stall a Stall in Health Reform
7/20/2009 - Buying Time on the Economy
7/20/2009 - Cashing in on Michael J
7/20/2009 - VIDEO: Brian Kilmeade Needs a Timeout
7/20/2009 - Tougher than Robben: Mandela Gets a Day
7/20/2009 - Obama-thon '09: The Health Care Edition
7/20/2009 - The Never-Ending Beef & Fascination with Street Lit
7/20/2009 - The Virtual Break-Up
7/20/2009 - Filling a Black Hole
7/20/2009 - The Original Moonwalk
7/20/2009 - NASA, We Have a Problem
7/20/2009 - The Buck Up Billboard
7/19/2009 - Goin' Up Yonder: Walter Cronkite Passes at Age 92
7/17/2009 - The Confab -- July 17, 2009
7/17/2009 - We’re Relevant, Really!
7/17/2009 - Stay in Your Lane, Beyoncé
7/17/2009 - Wanting to Avoid the One-Time, Bashir Avoids Uganda Conference
7/17/2009 - Obama Says: Those Indonesian Attacks Were Extremely Lame
7/17/2009 - Don't Believe The Hype?
7/17/2009 - VIDEO: Pat Buchanan Reminds Us "White Men Built This Country"
7/17/2009 - Obama and His Wishful Preaching
7/17/2009 - The Obama Doctrine: Racism’s Real; Deal With It
7/17/2009 - Obama Goes to Chuuuuuuuurch at NAACP Convention
7/17/2009 - The Best Year in Jazz Ever
7/17/2009 - A Song for Lady Day
7/16/2009 - Really, Pat Buchanan?
7/16/2009 - Does Gitmo Have Room for One More?
7/16/2009 - VIDEO: Barbara Boxer Makes Some Black Folks Mad
7/16/2009 - VIDEO: A Glimpse of Afro Punk
7/16/2009 - Steve McNair's Wife to Oversee Estate
7/16/2009 - Can Suze Orman's Advice Save You?
7/16/2009 - CNN: Black Men and Mental Health
7/16/2009 - Tiger's Turnberry?
7/16/2009 - ...And So Began the Health Care War...
7/16/2009 - Black to the Future?
7/16/2009 - Bending Toward Justice
7/15/2009 - The Root and Black Web 2.0 Review 'Black in America 2'
7/15/2009 - NAACP: Now What?
7/15/2009 - Health Reform Rises from the Dead
7/15/2009 - Swagga Goes International
7/15/2009 - VIDEO: Michael Jackson Pepsi Accident Footage
7/15/2009 - Now I'm Pissed
7/15/2009 - Double-Edged Steele
7/15/2009 - Why Sen. Graham Got It Wrong
7/15/2009 - Why Did Sotomayor Need to Explain "Wise Latina"?
7/15/2009 - VIDEO: Steele Invites Diversity; Says "I'll Bring the Fried Chicken and Potato Salad"
7/15/2009 - Workers Call Off Strike, World Cup Might Happen After All
7/15/2009 - 168 Feared Dead in Iran Plane Crash
7/15/2009 - No Empathy Debate for Regina Benjamin
7/15/2009 - Toward an ‘Authentic’ Black Barbie
7/15/2009 - Staying Fit on a Fixed Budget
7/14/2009 - Invisible Woman
7/14/2009 - Remembering Billie Holiday
7/14/2009 - Round 2...Fight! A Wrap-Up of Sotomayor's Second Day
7/14/2009 - The Search for Self
7/14/2009 - Hearings Through the Looking Glass
7/14/2009 - AUDIO: Drake Wishes Death on Obama!...No; Not that Drake. The Other One.
7/14/2009 - Obama Slated to Toss Out First Pitch at All-Star Game
7/14/2009 - The Free Republic's Attack on Malia Obama
7/14/2009 - Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearing: The Drinking Game
7/14/2009 - Charles Taylor Says: I Have No Idea How All Those Dead People Happened!
7/14/2009 - Why Justin Timberlake Will Never Be MJ
7/14/2009 - The New King of Pop is a Queen
7/14/2009 - Wole Soyinka on Obama's Choice
7/14/2009 - The Trouble With Greatness
7/14/2009 - Why Have My White Classmates Had It Easier?
7/13/2009 - Sotomayor v. Sessions
7/13/2009 - Transcript of Judge Sotomayor's Opening Statements
7/13/2009 - Sanford, Palin, and Cheney: Write Now?
7/13/2009 - Obama Taps Regina Benjamin as U.S. Surgeon General
7/13/2009 - Regina Benjamin Tapped as Surgeon General
7/13/2009 - Live Stream: Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearing
7/13/2009 - Emotion Denied
7/13/2009 - So Fly: 15-Year Old Pilot Completes Cross-Country Voyage
7/13/2009 - Joe Jackson Wants to Put MJ's Kids on Tour
7/13/2009 - Philly Swim Club: 'Sorry for the Racis..er..Mix Up. Still Wanna Swim?'
7/13/2009 - Where Are The Jobs?
7/11/2009 - VIDEO: Obama Speaks at Slave Fort in Ghana
7/10/2009 - Sharing Too Much On Your Shirt
7/10/2009 - Digging Up Grave Sites and Reselling the Plot = Not Tight
7/10/2009 - The Confab -- July 10, 2009
7/10/2009 - See? Bill Clinton IS Black, Just Like Every Comedian Ever Said
7/10/2009 - If At First You Don't Succeed, Try Again?
7/10/2009 - Grave Robbers in Chicago - What Next?
7/10/2009 - He’ll Always Have Paris
7/10/2009 - Burris Says "No Mas"; Shan't Run in 2010
7/10/2009 - Oh No He Didn’t!
7/10/2009 - Eyes Off the Prize
7/10/2009 - Put a Ring On It!
7/10/2009 - Wrongfully Convicted Men Free after 20 Years; States Hopes for Mulligan
7/10/2009 - Studying War Some More
7/10/2009 - Audio: Michael Wasn't a Pioneer of Everything
7/9/2009 - African Rogues and Royalty
7/9/2009 - Dining Without the Dictator
7/9/2009 - At Some Pools, Still Waters Run Deep
7/9/2009 - Opinion: Soledad O'Brien Isn't Why 'Black in America' Catches a FAIL
7/9/2009 - Young, Gifted and Slack
7/9/2009 - Hate Your Job? Too Bad!
7/9/2009 - Man Dies at Chocolate Factory
7/9/2009 - Before Obama, Google Gets to Africa
7/9/2009 - Harry Allen vs. Kirstie Alley
7/9/2009 - 8-Year Old Girl Killed at a Pool Party
7/9/2009 - Philly Swim Club Says No to Black Kids
7/9/2009 - Hung?
7/9/2009 - Go Global, America!
7/9/2009 - Young Bucks Get the Big Bucks
7/8/2009 - Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? And Other Lit-Related Questions
7/8/2009 - Marion Barry: A Real...Devoted Kind of Guy
7/8/2009 - VIDEO: Pool Boots Kids for Coloring the Water
7/8/2009 - LeBron Dunked on at his Own Camp!
7/8/2009 - White Roommates Make You Smarter
7/8/2009 - Study: Racial Disparities Apparent in 401ks
7/8/2009 - The Hague Rejects Genocide Charges Against Bashir
7/8/2009 - If The Artist Struggles, Don't We All?
7/8/2009 - The Root's Summer Book List
7/8/2009 - Get Over the Obama Marriage Fantasy
7/8/2009 - Grace Through The Pain
7/7/2009 - Now He's Home
7/7/2009 - US, Russia Agree to Cut Down Nuke Number
7/7/2009 - Hollywood Stars Join Fans for Jackson Tribute
7/7/2009 - America’s Sarah Palin Dilemma
7/7/2009 - Palin's New Jack Pity
7/7/2009 - Obama's Russian Drive-By on the Public Health Plan
7/7/2009 - VIDEO: Bill O'Reilly Raises a Reasonable Question
7/7/2009 - Mulatto Lit: Asking the Hard Questions on Race in America
7/7/2009 - My Eulogy to the King of Pop
7/7/2009 - The Two Childhoods of Michael Jackson
7/7/2009 - Losing "Vibe"
7/7/2009 - Welcome Back, Maxwell!
7/7/2009 - Bailin’ Palin
7/7/2009 - The Untouchable Michael Jackson
7/7/2009 - To the Michael in All of Us
7/7/2009 - Cali Can't Balance Its Checkbook...or Yours
7/7/2009 - Funerals, Memorial Services, Doing The Right Thing
7/6/2009 - Black Russians Curious to See Obama Straight Up
7/6/2009 - TV One Launching Sunday Political Talk Show
7/6/2009 - Washington's $1.4M Revolving Door
7/6/2009 - Law School Can't Save You
7/6/2009 - Michael Jackson Overload Blues
7/6/2009 - Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara Dead at 93
7/6/2009 - Mr. Obama Goes to Moscow
7/6/2009 - Air McNair's Fatal Crash
7/6/2009 - TV's Golden Age of Rage
7/6/2009 - Save Pat Buchanan!
7/5/2009 - Video: Michael Jackson Minus Mystique
7/5/2009 - Using Jackson as a Mass Distraction
7/5/2009 - Steve McNair: 1973-2009
7/5/2009 - Steve McNair, Football Star, Killed in Nashville
7/4/2009 - Sarah Palin's Resignation: World's Greatest Head Fake
7/4/2009 - Happy Fourth!!!
7/3/2009 - Debbie Rowe wants her kids back
7/3/2009 - VIDEO: Sarah Palin Quits
7/3/2009 - Happy Fourth of July, Or Not
7/3/2009 - Blame It On The G-G-G-G-Gays!
7/3/2009 - Michael Jackson's Last Dance
7/3/2009 - Why Venus and Serena Own Wimbledon
7/3/2009 - What’s the New American Idea?
7/3/2009 - Can You Hear My T-Shirt Now?
7/2/2009 - The Confab -- July 3, 2009
7/2/2009 - Michelle Obama's Sistah-Girlfriend Press Corps
7/2/2009 - Monica Conyers Doesn't Wanna Go to Jail, Unlike Everyone Else
7/2/2009 - Michael's Face: Self-Loathing or Mental Disorder?
7/2/2009 - So...Black Women Shouldn't Cover the First Lady Because She's 'One of Them'?
7/2/2009 - Cops Anoint Texas Minister with Pepper Spray
7/2/2009 - Pimp My Kid!
7/2/2009 - Audio: Limbaugh Sees Corollary Betwix Michael Jackson's Death and Obama Administration
7/2/2009 - Manny Returns
7/2/2009 - The Patriot Act
7/2/2009 - 'Star-Spangled' Bloopers
7/1/2009 - The Only Ones: The Underside of Integration?
7/1/2009 - 12 Angry White Men
7/1/2009 - More Black Women Choosing to Adopt
7/1/2009 - The Senate Slavery Apology Disclaimer: Don't Even Think About Suing Us
7/1/2009 - Black College Wants to Save Black Boys
7/1/2009 - What Are You Teaching Your Children About Money?
7/1/2009 - Israeli Navy Arrests Ex-Rep. Cynthia McKinney
7/1/2009 - R.I.P., Vibe, 1993-2009
7/1/2009 - Money Talks; We Should Listen