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Vote for Your America: The Root Joins Groundbreaking Voter-Engagement Campaign
No one is expecting the turnout of African-American voters in 2016 to reach the record-shattering numbers of 2008, when Barack Obama lit up the black electorate. But there are critical issues at stake for the black community—the Supreme Court, job growth, health care, criminal justice—with the choice of the next president and other officeholders hanging…
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Black-Owned Craft Beer Company Gets Premium Placement in Wal-Mart
Harlem has a special place in the American imagination when it comes to culture, art and music. But would you also imagine small-batch beer? Well. The Harlem Brewing Co. is a 15-year-old microbrewery founded in its namesake New York community. In March the company will be stocking its wares front and center in 39 Wal-Mart stores…
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Obama’s Battle for Black Boys: My Brother’s Keeper, 2 Years Later
“Trayvon Martin could have been me.” Those were the words a visibly shaken President Barack Obama expressed to the country one summer day almost three years ago, a week after slain teen Trayvon Martin’s killer was acquitted of all charges and allowed to walk free. President Obama, like much of black America, was despondent about…
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Kendrick Lamar Will Induct N.W.A Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced on Twitter Monday that Kendrick Lamar will induct N.W.A into the organization at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., this April. N.W.A will join Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple and Steve Miller as this year’s inductees. K. Dot will join presenters Kid Rock, the Black Keys, Metallica’s…
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Kweisi Mfume Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
The Hillary Clinton campaign announced Monday that former NAACP president and current Morgan State Chairman Kweisi Mfume is backing her for president, according to the Baltimore Sun. “For decades, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated her commitment to fighting for Black and Latino communities in both deed and action,” Mfume said in a statement released by the Clinton…
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Rihanna Drops Video for ‘Work’—a Hotline Blashment?
A “bashment” is a term often used in West Indian culture to refer to a lively party. We predict that the brand-new music video for Rihanna’s “Work” will be the best multimedia depiction of a bashment this year. Featuring bad gal Rihanna and her not-so-boo (as far as we know), Drake, the video of…
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The Stono Slave Rebellion Was Nearly Erased From US History Books
In the early hours of Sunday, Sept. 9, 1739, 20 enslaved black men gathered near a bridge over the Stono River, southwest of Charles Town (now Charleston), S.C., where they were part of a work gang building a public road. Most of them, including their leader, Jemmy, appear to have been among the 8,000 Kikongo…
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Duke Students Protest Annual Prison-Themed Party on Campus
Protesters from Duke University and Durham, N.C., residents gathered Friday evening in front of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity to protest an annual incarceration-themed party held by the fraternity and Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, reports the Duke Chronicle. According to a Tumblr page put up by a group calling itself #DukeEnrage, the party, dubbed “Kappa Kops,” was held…
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6 Dead, 2 Wounded After Gunman Opens Fire in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Six people were killed and two others wounded in a series of apparently random shootings throughout Kalamazoo County, Mich., on Saturday evening. Initial reports said that a 14-year-old girl was killed, but she is critically injured but alive. NBC News reports that alleged shooter Jason Brian Dalton, 45, was taken into custody early Sunday morning…
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