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  • Diversity of Talent at Harlem Fine Arts Show

    (The Root) — The creative talent of many notable and emerging contemporary artists of the black Diaspora will be on full display at the fourth annual Harlem Fine Arts Show. This year’s showcase will honor the late Percy E. Sutton, a prominent civil rights leader, businessman and avid art collector. This year HFAS expands to…

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  • Michelle Williams on 'Fela!' and Depression

    Michelle Williams was one-third of the Destiny’s Child reunion that helped steal Sunday night’s Super Bowl halftime show, but that was just a diversion for the singer, who’s now recording solo material as well as performing up to eight shows a week in Broadway’s Fela! Rolling Out spoke to her about the project that she…

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  • Google a 'Black' Name, Get an Arrest Ad?

    Pop a name into Google and you’re likely to end up with corresponding advertisements alongside your results. Wild guess which types of names are more likely to yield arrest-related ads suggesting that the person searched for has a record. You got it — according to a Harvard University paper reported in MIT Technology Review on…

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  • Young Futurists 2013

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  • Obama's Day, Feb. 1: Researchers, Inventors Get National Medals

    THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President will award 12 eminent researchers the National Medal of Science and 11…

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  • Do You Know Your Black History?

    Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Who was the first African American? Answer.…

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  • Obama's Day, Jan. 31: Presidential Daily Briefing

    THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

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  • Obama's Day, Jan. 30: Talking Immigration on Telemundo, Univision

    THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President and Secretary Clinton will meet for lunch in…

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  • Girl Who Performed at Inaugural Events Killed in Chicago

    Just a week after performing with her King College Prep band and drill team at Washington, D.C., events surrounding President Obama’s second inauguration, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed at a park on Chicago’s South Side Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reports. The unique narrative surrounding the majorette and volleyball player’s tragic death will no…

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  • Obama's Day, Jan. 29: Immigration Talk in Las Vegas

    THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013 In the morning, the President will depart the White House en route Las Vegas, Nevada. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at McCarran International Airport are open press. While in Las Vegas, the President…

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