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‘Obama Wants Your Guns’: Ted Cruz Campaign Reacts to President’s Speech on Gun Control
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s 40-minute speech on gun control Tuesday, this happened: “Obama wants your guns.” Said phrase, accompanied by what appears to be a photoshopped image of President Obama clad in black combat attire—helmet and all—headlines a page of Ted Cruz’s campaign website. Just below the headline, the Cruz campaign solicits backing:…
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African Boy Attacked by Chimps to Receive Reconstructive Surgery in NY
Two years ago Dunia Sibomana, his younger brother and a cousin were the victims of a chimpanzee attack. According to the Associated Press, his brother and cousin died in the assault—they were dismembered—while Dunia, now 8, was left severely disfigured. He is missing his lips and a finger, and his cheek was torn during the…
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Watch: Idris Elba Explains Why Stringer Bell Was Such an Important Role
Idris Elba is becoming a veteran right before our eyes. It seems like just yesterday he burst onto the scene playing the sexy and complicated Stringer Bell in The Wire. His recent video interview with the New York Times allowed him to reflect on some of his most significant roles. “I consider every character my…
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Serena Williams: I Know I Get Flak for My Physique, but Curves Are In and I’m Happy
A large chunk of the interview that Serena Williams recently conducted with the United Kingdom’s The Times Magazine is inaccessible to nonsubscribers, but a few more excerpts from the chat got published online. And it’s worth screaming from the mountaintops about. There’s nothing better than hearing Williams say that she’s well-aware of the criticism she sometimes…
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‘The Year We Mispronounce Back’ Takes Off as Black South Africans Shed Light on Their Reality by Butchering White Names
Nearly everyone with a non-Anglican-sounding or -looking surname can relate to the dread you sometimes feel when someone asks you what your name is with the intent of repeating it back to you. Same when a teacher butchers your name during roll call. For more of black Twitter, check out The Chatterati on The Root and follow The Chatterati…
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Don’t Blame Your Hysterectomy if He’s Not Happy
I am a 44-year-old married mother of three. A year ago, my doctor advised me to have a hysterectomy. My research and a second opinion proved him correct. I had the surgery but kept my cervix and ovaries. Since then, my husband complains that sex is not the same. He hints that I am not…
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Finding Your Roots Returns to PBS With New Episodes
The past always informs the future, and never more so these days than in Finding Your Roots, the PBS program hosted by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor and the founding director of Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He is also chairman of The Root. “There is something…
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Your Confusing Relationship With Cliff Huxtable Doesn’t Justify Victim-Blaming
When I was 11 years old, I sat on a witness stand and was interrogated for the crimes of my father. I had reported his sexual abuse to my mom when I was an innocent 10-year-old, woefully unaware of how the turn of events would play out. I understood nothing when his guilty sentence was…
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Photo of the Day: Jaden Smith Bucks Gender by Modeling in a Louis Vuitton Womenswear Campaign
Here we see more of Jaden Smith’s free-spirited self busting through. The eldest child of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith is one of the new faces of a Louis Vuitton womenswear campaign. The creative director of LV, Nicolas Ghesquière, posted two photos of Jaden on Instagram. In one, we see Jaden posing alongside three female models.…
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Chris Brown Denies Accusation That He Assaulted a Woman in Las Vegas
Editor’s note: This article contains a social media post that some may find offensive. Chris Brown is being accused of assaulting a woman in Las Vegas early Saturday morning, USA Today reports. The woman filed a police report claiming that Brown hit her and took her cellphone after she tried to take a photo with…
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