The Root Podcasts

Join Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy as she chats with Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and contributor Michael Arceneaux about overly emotional attachments to President Obama, the president’s jobs plan, and his controversial vacation. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week on the Confab, join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Washington Reporter Cynthia Gordy and Senior Editor Teresa Wiltz about the nation’s credit rating, The Help and Tyler Perry’s latest venture. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Washington Reporter Cynthia Gordy, Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta, and frequent contributor David Swerdlick about Obama’s birthday, his reelection chances, and R&B groups of the past. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week: Senior Editor Teresa Wiltz chats with D.C. Reporter Cynthia Gordy, Intern Dara Sharif and contributor Clay Cane about blacks and tipping, the life and death of Amy Winehouse, Cornel West’s issues with the president, and the debt limit crisis. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week: Associate Editor Lauren Williams chats with Deputy Editor Sheryl Salomon, Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and Contributing Editor Jenee Desmond-Harris about The Root’s new redesign, Google Plus, and what is up with black republicans. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week: Associate Editor Lauren Williams chats with Cynthia Gordy, Dara Sharif and Saba Bireda about Atlanta’s school cheating scandal, the related impact of No Child Left Behind, and Oprah hairstylist Andre Walker’s limited views on kinky hair. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week: Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with reporter Cynthia Gordy, intern Dara Sharif and contributor Topher Sanders about how skin color affects jail terms, crack prison sentencing guidelines, and the Casey Anthony verdict. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week on the Confab: Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she talks to Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy and contributor Edward Wyckoff Williams about Van Jones’ new political movement, blacks and marriage equality, and black music month. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week: Join host Lauren Williams, as she chats with Washington Reporter Cynthia Gordy, Root staffer Akoto Ofori-Atta, and contributor Clay Cane about the First Lady’s Africa trip, blacks and homophobia, and our favorite one-hit wonders. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week: Join senior editor Teresa Wiltz, as she chats with Washington Reporter Cynthia Gordy and contributors Jenee Desmond-Harris and Mason Jamal about dispelling myths about black fathers, Weiner-gate, and interracial dating on the show Hawthorne. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week: host Lauren Williams, associate editor of The Root, chats with Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy and contributor Michael Arceneaux about funding for HIV drugs, Eddie Long and homophobia in the black church, racial income disparity and more. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

Author Ellis Cose, who wrote the new book The End of Anger, about the generation gap among blacks when it comes to attitudes about racism, addresses an audience about his findings at June 6, 2011, event sponsored by The Root. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

The Root Managing Editor Joel Dreyfuss moderates a panel discussion, featuring Ellis Cose, Cheryl Contee, Erica L. Williams, the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, and Jamal Simmons, about how blacks from different generations view racism. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

This week on the Confab: Join associate editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy and contributor Martin Johnson about Gil Scott-Heron’s legacy and the black generation gap. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

Join Associate editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy and contributor Jenee Desmond-Harris about where blacks fit into the immigration debate, anti-white bias and Oprah Winfrey’s legacy. * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus. * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.