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New York Latest Target of Black Anti-Abortion Billboards
Read the latest news about blacks and abortion on The Root. Updated Feb. 24 at 4:35 p.m. ET It’s safe to say that few things shock New Yorkers. But a new anti-abortion billboard erected in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood has created a firestorm of controversy. It depicts the image of a pensive 6-year-old girl…
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Planned Parenthood Speaks Out on GOP Attack
Just hours after the Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed a measure to strip Planned Parenthood of funding on Friday, the embattled organization hit back, setting the stage for a showdown in what is widely seen as a symbolic effort to repeal the health care law. The Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, sponsored by Indiana…
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House of Horrors at Philly Abortion Clinic Inflames Debate
The grisly murders and gruesome discoveries inside Kermit B. Gosnell’s West Philadelphia abortion clinic leave one wondering what would make mostly poor, minority women so desperate that they would utilize his filthy clinic, where body parts of dead fetuses allegedly were stored in jars that lined the shelves of the macabre scene. On Jan. 19,…
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What's at Stake for Health Care Reform
Today’s scheduled vote by House Republicans to repeal the new health care law is largely symbolic, but the Obama administration is taking no chances that people will miss what’s at stake if the worst-case scenario plays out. African Americans are among the groups to which it’s reaching out to rally support in defense of the…
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Freed From Prison but Still in Pain
Just days after Gov. David A. Paterson commuted his prison sentence in the fatal shooting of an unarmed white teenager outside of his Long Island, N.Y., home nearly four years ago, John H. White told The Root in an exclusive and emotional interview that he never should have been sentenced in the racially charged slaying.…
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Why Is the Black Abortion Rate So High?
Read the latest news about blacks and abortion on The Root. Ryan Bomberger was born of a rape nearly 30 years ago. He is alive today because his biological mother made a choice, he says, to put him up for adoption rather than have an abortion. He is grateful, though he realizes the choice was…
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Still Down With Our Communities? Meh
There was a time when blacks were so closely tied to their communities that adult neighbors were almost like a second set of parents to children. From hulking high-rise housing projects in Detroit to single-story houses on tree-lined streets in Gary, Ind., neighbors would inform parents what time a child arrived home from school and…
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Always Tough, Single Motherhood Gets Worse
Forty-four-year-old Cassandra Jackson recently returned home to Chicago from Memphis, Tenn., in hopes of upgrading her quality of life and beating the odds faced by so many single African-American mothers: finding a job. Jackson, who had worked as a secretary for the state of Tennessee, was barely making ends meet in Memphis. That’s why she…
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The Root Cities: Chicago's Political Power Brokers
The annals of black Chicago politics read like a political thriller, full of intrigue, backroom deals and untimely deaths. The mayoral race has been a pivotal factor in determining who holds political power in black Chicago since the 1987 death of Harold Washington, the city’s first black mayor. At that point, African-American politics became splintered…
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