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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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John Edwards Indicted
A federal grand jury in North Carolina has indicted John Edwards on charges of violating federal election law for allegedly using nearly $1 million in illegal campaign donations to conceal an extramarital affair during his 2008 run for the Democratic presidential nomination. The former presidential candidate was charged in a six-count indictment with conspiring to…
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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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D.C. EVENT: Explore the Black Generation Gap
Are young blacks more optimistic about racism in America than their elders? Join The Root on June 6 in Washington, D.C., as we investigate the growing generational divide between today’s African-American youths and their elders on matters of race. Our multigenerational panel of noted journalists and social analysts will discuss the Black Generation Gap, why…
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