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Meet Our Future: 25 Young Black Innovators
They hail from Oxnard, Calif., to Portland, Maine, and several spots in between. They are scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and agents of social change. The Root’s 2012 Young Futurists are our future. After a nationwide search, The Root’s staff selected these 25 African-American innovators, ages 16 to 22, for its second annual list. This year’s Young…
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'Roots' Star: Racial Discourse 'Like 1950s'
Thirty-five years ago, the television miniseries Roots cracked open the national dialogue about race with its searing portrayal of life before and during slavery for several generations in African-American writer Alex Haley’s family. Is America as honest about the way we discuss race today? One of Roots’ stars, Leslie Uggams, spoke with The Root’s editor-in-chief,…
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Performance Gap Widens Between Whites and Minorities
In a story at America’s Wire, The Root’s senior editor, Teresa Wiltz, writes that educators are alarmed at the expanding academic-performance gap between minority and white high school students. She says that new approaches are needed to stop the progress made in the lower grades from being wiped out in high school. Educators are expressing…
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