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Where Perkins-Murder Coverage Misses Mark
(The Root) — Kasandra “Kasi” Perkins is dead. The 22-year-old woman, whom her family described as being full of laughter, kindness, optimism and inspiration, had recently given birth to a baby girl, an infant who was in the house when her father, the Kansas City Chief’s linebacker Jovan Belcher, killed her mother. Perkins was buried…
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What If Jordan Davis' Killer Were Black?
(The Root) —The recent killing of 17-year-old Jordan Davis has black folks and social-justice activists up in arms over yet another senseless death of an unarmed black boy at the hands of an armed white man in Florida. I’m still trying to figure out how an argument over the volume of music escalated to the…
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Rare Black Images, Finally Up for Grabs
(The Root) — You’ve heard the expression “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Photos have the ability to tell complex stories, convey important information and elicit emotional responses from viewers who may know nothing of the subject matter. One frame can change the world. Think of the iconic photographs that have come to symbolize…
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How Campus Racism Is a Postelection Reality
(The Root) — The recent re-election of President Barack Obama has been met with a variety of reactions. Because of the large turnout of young people, women and people of color, the prevailing thought has been that America is officially moving beyond its racist past, embracing change and the need to recognize the value that…
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8 Films That Feed Your Soul on Thanksgiving
Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., a media scholar, is digital editor in chief at Grady Newsource and a faculty member of the Cox Institute of Journalism, Innovation, Management & Leadership at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is founder and editor in chief of the award-winning news blog…
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How Romney's Rhetoric Still Misses the Point
(The Root) — Unless you live under a rock or in a deep state of denial (cough, cough, Mitt Romney), the re-election of the nation’s first black president, Barack Hussein Obama, was due largely to voter turnout from voters of color (mainly African Americans and Latinos), young voters and women. As The Root’s Keli Goff…
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'Save My Son': Reality Show Keeps It Real
(The Root) — Reality television has been taken to task for being a wasteland of contrived situations, abhorrent behavior and the exploitation of women, children and poor people. Finally, a television network has managed to pull together a reality show that focuses on women and children without being exploitative in nature; instead, TV One’s Save…
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Memo to Men in the GOP: Rape Is Rape
(The Root) — I don’t know about you, but in the words of the late, great civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. I learned these words from my middle school band director, the late, great Royal J. Singleton III, which he applied to our sometimes uninspired…
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Will Drama Over the N-Word Ever Go Away?
(The Root) — The n-word is in the news again. Yes, another celebrity got caught using the slur during a rant — this time Chevy Chase uttered it when he complained about the direction of his character on the NBC sitcom Community. The context, however, is a bit different from when former Seinfeld star Michael…
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Stacey Dash a Sellout? As If …
(The Root) — Actress Stacey Dash is in the news again, this time responding to the Twitterverse, which has gone stark, raving mad over her very public endorsement of GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney. Dash, who recently celebrated her reunion with the cast of Clueless (1995), the cult classic that made pretty much everyone involved…
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