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The White House Is 'Open for Questions'
Do you wonder what the government is doing to address poverty, the widening wealth gap and stubbornly high unemployment rates — realities that are especially dire for African Americans? Do you wonder why politicians rarely talk about poor people these days? Here’s your chance to ask. With the release of a new White House report,…
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Watch It Live: The Real Cost of Unemployment
Join The Root as we live-stream “The Real Cost of Unemployment,” a panel discussion about the future of joblessness in America. Presented by WNYC from The Greene Space, a state-of-the-art multimedia performance venue, and hosted by Farai Chideya, the panel will include Carmen Wong Ulrich, author of The Real Cost of Living; investor Ryan Mack;…
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Images of a Dedication: The MLK Memorial
Dr. Christine King Farris, sister of Martin Luther King Jr., waves after speaking at the dedication ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall, Oct. 16, 2011, in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama, entertainers, civil rights leaders and others attended the ceremony to formally dedicate the memorial to the civil…
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Tackling Infant Mortality Among Blacks
Infant mortality rates in Allegheny County, Pa., which includes Pittsburgh, are higher than in China or Mexico, reports the New York Times, in an article that focuses on efforts to reduce the death rate. The infant mortality rate in the United States has long been near the bottom of the world’s industrialized countries. The nation’s…
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Live Tweet: MLK Memorial Dedication
Join The Root this Sunday, Oct. 16, at 8 a.m. as we live-tweet the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial dedication ceremony from West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will begin with Morning Joy, an hourlong program hosted by Roland S. Martin. President Barack Obama will deliver an address at the dedication program,…
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Remembering Derrick Bell
Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School You would always get straight talk from professor Derrick Bell. When I was a young lawyer, barely six years out of law school, I was at a crossroads. I could stay in the U.S. Department of Justice and take a position in the criminal section…
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Legal Scholar Derrick Bell Dead at 80
We had barely absorbed the sad news of the passing of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Wednesday — not to mention the death of Apple leader Steve Jobs — when we heard news of another tragic loss: the death Wednesday of legal scholar and writer Derrick Bell. A publicist for New York University School of Law,…
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Watch Live: Van Jones on Taking Back American Dream
The American Dream Movement has been called an antidote to the Tea Party movement, but what’s at the core of it? Activist and former Obama administration “green-jobs adviser” Van Jones will explain the big-umbrella progressive movement in an 11:30 a.m. ET address from the “Take Back the American Dream” conference in Washington, D.C. See the…
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