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Rachel Dolezal Spotted on Howard U’s Campus Filming Doc on Race
Our favorite race imposter, Rachel Dolezal, is back. And she reared her fuzzy head on Howard University’s campus on Thursday. Maya Cade, editor of A Tribe Called News, a Howard-based news site for millennial POCs, captured Dolezal with her baby in a snuggy on the yard, and another social media sleuth snapped the embattled fake black…
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White Privilege Isn’t Tainting the Criminal-Justice System. It Is the Criminal-Justice System
A lot of people are saying that white privilege is rampant within the criminal-justice system. Let me correct that. White privilege is the criminal-justice system. And the recent case involving a privileged college student convicted of sexual assault with a whiny father is just one of many of white men getting the benefit of the…
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Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Kicks Off Its Spring Season With ‘Spirit’
June in New York City means a lot of things, but it is also the official kickoff to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s spring season at Lincoln Center. As in the past, the season began with a star-studded Ailey Spirit Gala (pdf) Wednesday in midtown Manhattan. The evening was a night to remember for attendees, who were greeted…
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A Nude Snapchat Video and Cyberbullying Lead to Teen’s Suicide
A Florida teenager committed suicide last week because of cyberbullying. Tovanna Holton, 15, was recorded by a “friend” while bathing, according to the Daily Beast. Without Tovanna’s permission, the friend uploaded the video to Snapchat, where viewers took screenshots and began to post the images on other social media platforms. One of the viewers was…
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Watch: Live Coverage of Muhammad Ali’s Funeral
The world was saddened by the June 4 death of boxing icon and humanitarian Muhammad Ali. The boxer was 74 years old and left behind a legacy unsurpassed. Watch, below, TV One’s live coverage of the funeral as a nation says goodbye:
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Bill Clinton Speaking at Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Is the Corporate Co-Optation of an Icon
In life, and now in death, Muhammad Ali cut a swashbuckling, larger-than-life figure. Three days of celebration for Ali will culminate in a public funeral service led by former President Bill Clinton on Friday in Louisville, Ky., representing an ironic high point in the nation’s relationship with black radicalism. A black power icon and anti-war…
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How Do I Research My Kin’s Jamaican Origins?
My great-grandparents migrated from Jamaica. I have everyone’s name but no other information about them. Can you tell me more about their origins and how to research Jamaican ancestors in the 19th century? My great-grandfather was Arthur Ephraim Campbell, born May 20, 1879, in Jamaica. He died April 17, 1936, in Roxbury, Mass. His parents…
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Watch: Studio Sessions at The Root Featuring Abiah
Abiah is a seasoned artist and a self-proclaimed vocal beast. With his five-and-a-half-octave range (the artist’s voice could practically shatter glass) and pitch-perfect tone, we think he’s worthy of the title. Abiah and his band took to the Studio Sessions stage to serenade all who would listen with two songs from his album Bottles: “Little…
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They’re Called ‘Microaggressions’ but There’s Nothing Small About Them
For 11 months I regretted that I had not glared at my white therapist and said, “You are dead to me. You are not the person I thought you were. You never knew me. You only saw the stereotype.” For 18 years he had been my favorite doctor, yet I stayed away. Previously, I would…
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My Husband Wets the Bed After Getting Sloppy Drunk and I Don’t Know What to Do
My husband loves to go out on the weekend and get wasted with his friends. A few times, he actually peed in the bed because he was beyond wasted. My dad was an alcoholic and it bothers me whenever this happens. He only drinks on the weekend, but I don’t like how sloppy he can…
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