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Everything You Need to Know About the Zika Virus
When Gabrielle Fouché Williams left Brazil in January to return to the United States, she was four months pregnant with her first child. Williams had been living in Salvador, Brazil, for the last three years. The first few months of her pregnancy were difficult. Her doctor even put her on bed rest. But she expected…
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Top 5 Countries to Move to if You’re Afraid of a ‘President Trump’
Miles Marshall Lewis left America and moved to Paris after George W. Bush was elected president of the United States in 2001. “I left the States partially because I felt like my protests [in the lead-up to] the Iraqi War weren’t being heard,” said Lewis, who is a music journalist. “I didn’t want to be…
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Top 5 Travel Destinations for 2016
In 2016, a lot of people are making New Year’s resolutions to get out more. How about getting way out? Like, out of the country! Here are The Root’s top five international spots you should hit up this year. Cuba: Unspoiled and Easier to Visit Danielle Horry, a travel consultant based in New York, visited…
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Fighting Poverty, Plagued by Violence: Why 10,000 Black Women in Brazil Marched for Their Rights
They were lawyers, feminists, Christians, transgender women, domestic workers, militants, favela dwellers, politicians, students and many more. Despite their differences in beliefs, education and income, on Wednesday they came together behind the one thing they had in common: being a black woman in Brazil. On that day, more than 10,000 black women from all over…
