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March 9, 2011
Recently honored by President Obama, the biographer and literary critic talks to us about the pleasures and challenges of profiling black lives.
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July 22, 2011
A look back at the gay, the bi-curious and the LGBT-friendly denizens of the literary movement.
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November 29, 2010
To counter the negative images of African Americans in the late 19th century, Du Bois displayed portraits of middle-class blacks at the Paris Exposition of 1900. The Root has published some images from this act of defiance.
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by Jake Lamar onApril 7, 2010
Scott Joplin's rarely performed opera gets a rousing ovation in the City of Lights.
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by John McWhorter onJanuary 8, 2009
Booker T. Washington is finally getting some play.
