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Can Rahm Emanuel Win Black Voters Back?
(The Root) — Why does Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appear to be furiously campaigning for re-election in the African-American community when the election isn’t until 2015? On Tuesday he was spotted cruising the aisles of a Wal-Mart on Chicago’s South Side, which is predominantly African American. Over the weekend, he and police Superintendent Garry F.…
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Claire Danes Wins Best Actress Drama Emmy
Claire Danes won the Emmy Award on Sunday for best drama series actress for her role as a troubled CIA agent on Homeland, beating out Kerry Washington for top actress honors, the Associated Press reports. Fans of ABC’s Scandal had hoped Washington would win for her role as Olivia Pope. Indeed, it would have been a historic…
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Where Is George Zimmerman?
(The Root) — In a strange turn of events, it appears that no one knows exactly where George Zimmerman is, and therefore he can’t be served divorce papers, a lawyer representing his estranged wife, Shellie, tells TMZ. Until Zimmerman is served with papers, the lawyer says, the divorce cannot move forward. Sources close to George’s family…
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Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian Poet, Among 39 Killed in Nairobi Attack
The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., lamented the loss of 78-year-old Kofi Awoonor, a noted literary figure, who was among 39 people killed during a militant attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, according to news reports. “Kofi Awoonor was one of the pioneering figures in the history of African literature,” Gates said in…
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Will Kerry Washington Be the 1st?
Kerry Washington fans are on tenterhooks as they wait to find out Sunday if she will become the first black woman to win a primetime Emmy for lead actress in a drama series for her role on ABC’s Scandal. It was announced earlier this summer that Washington was nominated for her first Emmy for her…
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More Than 20 Killed as Militant Gunmen Storm Nairobi Mall
More than 20 people, including children, are reportedly dead after militant gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, early Saturday, sending panicked shoppers running into the streets, Reuters reports, citing witnesses’ accounts and the Red Cross. Kenyan officials blamed the attack on the Somali militant group al Shabaab, saying members had threatened to strike…
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Why a School Board Banned 'Invisible Man'
Saying it lacks “literary value,” members of the Randolph County Board of Education in North Carolina voted Monday to ban Ralph Ellison’s award-winning 1952 novel Invisible Man from reading lists, according to UPI. The Randolph County Board of Education voted 5-2 to remove the book following a complaint from a parent. “This novel is not so innocent;…
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University of Alabama: White Sororities to Admit Blacks
Following a spate of bad publicity after the campus newspaper alleged racial discrimination in the University of Alabama pledging system, President Judy Bonner released a video statement late Friday announcing diversity in the school’s sororities, according to USA Today. Seventy-two bids – offers to allow a person to pledge – have been offered by the…
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Chicago Held Hostage by Violence
(The Root) — “They need to stop, they need to stop,” Semecha Nunn told the Chicago Tribune after her 3-year-old grandson was shot late Thursday as neighbors played basketball at a park on Chicago’s South Side. Police are investigating the shooting, which left 13 people wounded after two men in a gray sedan reportedly pulled…
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Chicago Police Chief Calls for Ban on Assault Weapons
UPDATED Saturday, Sept. 21, 9:55 a.m. EDT: Chicago Police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy on Friday called for a ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, a day after gunmen opened fire at a South Side park, wounding 13, including a 3-year-old boy, CNN reports. “An assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine was used in the shooting,…
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