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Mourning a 'Lioness' of Civil Rights
This article was updated at 12:39 p.m. Dorothy I. Height, a commanding force in civil rights movement who stood on the platform with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, died of natural causes at 3:41 a.m. at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC. She was 98…
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Abortion Debaters Agree on One Thing
In the end, some African-American pro-life and pro-choice advocates see President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care reform measure as a major defeat. Now, both sides have pledged ardent campaigns against elected officials who voted for the landmark health care reform legislation that passed late Sunday and was signed into law on Tuesday by the president.…
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Voices From Smiley's Black Agenda Summit
Tracey Bruno was fired up and looking for some answers on Saturday when she entered the cavernous convocation center of Chicago State University to hear Tavis Smiley’s much-publicized panel about the black agenda. But all she got was talk, she said. “When you have these panel discussions, there is nothing concrete, like you can do…
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The Root Interview: Why Tavis Smiley "Cannot Be Silent"
Just weeks after Tavis Smiley announced in January that he’d be ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, the PBS talk show host and activist revealed plans to convene a one-day symposium with leaders and prominent thinkers about the African American agenda. “The conversation is about whether or not there is a need…
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Some Black Pro-Lifers Say Abortion Is Genocide
It used to be that the pro-life movement was associated with the white religious right, the most extreme elements of which were bent on saving women from hell and damnation for killing their fetuses. Now as more black women seek abortions, the banner has been taken up by some black pro-lifers. The Root spoke with…
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Hometown Crowd Sticks By Desiree Rogers
by Lynette Holloway When Desiree Rogers quietly stepped down as White House social secretary last week, it came as no surprise to Chicago’s political movers and shakers, such as U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill., a longtime African-American leader. “I never expected Desiree Rogers to make a career out of being a social secretary,’’ Davis…
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