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Report: Man Says He Shot Tupac, and More
Report: man admits to shooting Tupac: A day before what would have been Tupac’s 40th birthday, AllHipHop.com is reporting that Dexter Isaac has admitted to being responsible for a 1994 attack on the rapper (not the one that killed him — Tupac got shot a lot) inside Manhattan’s Quad Studios, after allegedly being paid $2,500…
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Find Your Roots Official Rules
“Find Your Roots” Sweepstakes Official Rules Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the United States of America at the time of entry and receipt of prize. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. This Sweepstakes is sponsored by The Root d/b/a The Washington Post and Residence Inn. Employees, officers, directors and representatives…
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Did Nowitzki and the Mavs Defeat 'Ghetto Basketball'?
NBA finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki is being celebrated all over his native Germany for leading the Dallas Mavericks to the 2011 NBA title. (For example, the Hamburg paper Der Spiegel wrote, “Dirk Nowitzki becomes the ultimate German star … By vanquishing the detested Miami Heat — and their star, LeBron James, one of America’s most…
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Montel Williams Opens Marijuana Pharmacy
Montel Williams, the former talk-show host and longtime advocate of medical marijuana who uses it to treat his own multiple sclerosis, is behind a new California pharmacy that will dispense the drug. This week he took reporters on a tour of an upscale Sacramento medical-marijuana dispensary that he’s helping to launch. Medicinal marijuana is…
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How to Celebrate Interracial Marriage
In 1958, newlyweds Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving — a black woman and a white man — were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages and banished from their home state. The U.S. Supreme Court finally overturned the law prohibiting interracial marriage on June 12, 1967. Yesterday, the anniversary of the Loving…
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It's Official After 40 Years: War on Drugs Is a Bust!
Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse the No. 1 enemy of the United States and launched the war on drugs. As we approach the anniversary, New York Times columnist Charles Blow points out that even blue-ribbon groups are conceding what the street already knows: Last week, the Report of the Global Commission…
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Share Photos of Your Fashionable Dad
When we look back on some of the fashions our fathers wore when we were younger, we might cringe … but you couldn’t tell them anything back in the day! The Root wants to celebrate our readers’ dads this Father’s Day with a gallery of fun vintage photos. Upload your favorite old picture to our…
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Minorities: Agents of White Supremacy?
Dr. Nitasha Sharna, a biracial scholar of cross-cultural relations, is doing away with the notion that minorities are solely the victims of white supremacy. They can also be the perpetrators, she said in remarks at the 24th annual meeting of the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education. Another twist: Hip-hop…
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Weinergate Picture Recipient: 'I'm Collateral Damage'
Gennette Cordova, the 21-year-old college student who received the crotch shot at the center of this week’s Weinergate scandal, told the New York Post that she’s exhausted by the media attention she’s received. “I’m just collateral damage,” she said. She believes the photo (which the congressman can’t say “with certitude” isn’t of him) was intended…
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