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50 Years After the Voting Rights Act, Courts Play a Key Role in Protecting Access to the Ballot
On a hot summer day last month in North Carolina, protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in Winston-Salem to demand the right to vote for the state’s black citizens. Inside the courtroom, Carnell Brown recounted his own story of disenfranchisement: Brown—a retiree who spent decades sharecropping cotton—had attempted to cast an early ballot in the…
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1 Year After John Crawford III’s Shooting by Police, His Family Is Still Waiting for Justice
On Aug. 5, 2014, John Crawford III and his girlfriend, Tasha Thomas, went shopping at a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. They planned to buy marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers to make s’mores at a family cookout. While on the phone with the mother of his two children, Crawford picked up a…
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The Best Apps to Make Your Money Mobile
Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
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Detroit Woman Who Claims She’s the Real-Life Cookie Lyon From Empire Is Suing the Show’s Creators for $300,000,000
Sophia Eggleston of Detroit thinks the similarities between herself and Empire’s Cookie Lyon are too strong to be a coincidence, so she’s suing the show’s creators for $300 million, the New York Post reports. Eggleston claims that she wrote a book about her life as a “drug kingpin” and went to Los Angeles and hand-delivered…
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Drake’s Diss Was Cool, But Let’s Stop Shaming Men Who Make Less Money Than Their Girlfriends or Wives
The sad thing about it is that I know a bunch of women—including myself—who turn up, and I mean turn up, during that specific part of the diss record “Back to Back.” The part when Toronto rapper Drake screams, “Shout to all my boss bitches wifin’ [n—gas]/Make sure you hit ’em with the prenup!” He’s…
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The Shooting at the Official After-Party for Drake’s OVO Fest Unnerves Me
The Drake vs. Meek Mill beef seemed to reach an all-time high at the OVO Fest Monday night in Toronto. Drake performed both of his diss records aimed at Meek during Monday’s OVO Fest while a bunch of memes mocking the Philly rapper played on a loop behind him on a jumbo screen. But it’s…
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Sam Dubose’s Death Shows Need for Body Cameras
“I want justice for my son!” Why are we here again? The police have taken yet another life, and now another parent is left mourning the death of her child at the hands of law enforcement, this time in Cincinnati. Sam Dubose—a father, a musician, an entrepreneur and a motorcycle enthusiast—was pulled over by University…
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Kevin Hart Says His Reaction to the Idea of His Son Being Gay Is About His Own Insecurities
A few comedians have gotten into trouble while joking about how they’d be terribly disappointed if they ever found out that their son was gay. People accused them of being homophobic and, at times, promoting violence against gay people. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Kevin Hart talked about a similar joke he tells…
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Black Twitter Scolds Allure Magazine for Using a White Woman in an Afro Tutorial
Allure magazine is a beauty publication mainly targeting young white women. So I’m going to break from the chorus of individuals calling foul on how the magazine featured a white woman in an Afro tutorial. But just a little bit. The tutorial appeared in the magazine’s August 2015 issue. Actress Marissa Neitling—a white woman with…
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