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Casting Call: Lee Daniels' 'Selma'
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. After her husband died in 1963, Boynton’s home became the planning and meeting center for the voting rights demonstrations in Selma. She attended the signing of the Voting Rights Act at the White House. (In this 2007 picture, she’s over 90. At…
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Top Black Women Leaders, Past and Present
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Abolitionist and poet. Abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Abolitionist and commander of the Underground Railroad. Lawyer and first lady of the United States of America. Political analyst affiliated with the Democratic Party. Former congresswoman…
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The Root's Favorite Female Anthems
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Mama, mama you’re the queen of my heart Your love is like Tears from the stars Mama, I just want you to know Lovin’ you is like food to my soul Want this song? Buy it 70’s Blues</a><IMG border=0 width=1 height=1 src=”…
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Don’t Do It, NAACP!
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Yes, Idris Elba is one delicious tall draaank, and that alone is enough to redeem Obsessed, the Negro Fatal Attraction one reviewer hailed as proof that we have achieved equal right to have trashy, lowbrow movies aimed at us. Fair enough. But…
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Black History Abroad
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Memnon was one of several protégés of the wealthy Athenian businessman and philosopher Herodes Atticus. His name was probably inspired by Memnon, the Ethiopian ally of Troy as described in Homer’s Iliad. Although few details of his life are known, his origins…
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Black Folks We'd Like To Remove From Black History
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. In terms of his political career, it may be accurate to say that former D.C. mayor and current City Councilman Marion Barry has nine lives. Still, when your most famous words are, “Bitch set me up” in reference to being caught smoking…
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Black History: Work to Live, Earn to Multiply
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Prior to the Civil War, despite severe restraints on their movements and limited capital, slaves and free blacks developed enterprises that paralleled mainstream business activity. In the 18th century, Paul Cuffe, the son of an Ashanti from Ghana and a Wampanoag Indian…
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White House Civil Rights Concert
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University.
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Vancouver 2010: Soul on Ice
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. USA Height: 6-foot-2 Weight: 185 lbs Event: Speed skating 500 meters, 1000m, 1500m 5000m, 10,000m The native Chicagoan may be the world’s fastest man on two skates. In 2006, he won the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics gold medal in the men’s…
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50 Years of Black History: A Time Line
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Feb. 1, 1960, four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, N.C., begin a sit-in at Woolworth’s Drug Store. Oct. 1: James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, escorted by U.S. marshals…
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