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$3,000,000 Donated to Scholarship Fund for Emanuel AME Church Community
A $3 million scholarship fund set up in the name of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was announced Thursday in Charleston, S.C., scene of the horrific mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, including Pinckney, who was also a state senator. Here is an excerpt from the press release…
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Can Watching Racist Viral Videos Give You PTSD?
News of overwhelming racial violence has become all too common. It seems to never stop. This week, the FBI opened investigations into suspected arson at black churches in five Southern states. Last week, President Barack Obama eulogized South Carolina state Rep. Clementa C. Pinckney and other members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston who…
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Black Supporters of the Confederate Flag: ‘Don’t Let Cowards in Bedsheets Hijack Its Meaning’
There’s Karen Cooper, the Virginia woman who described how the Confederate flag, to her, represents defiance in the face of oppression. “I actually think that it represents freedom,” Cooper, a black woman, says in a webisode of the documentary Battle Flag. “It represents a people who stood up to tyranny.” According to the Washington Post, Cooper takes…
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Michelle Obama Has Girl Scout Sleepover on the White House Lawn
It seems there’s nothing that first lady Michelle Obama won’t do to stress the tenets of her Let’s Move initiative that gets children to take exercising and eating healthy seriously, including turning her backyard into a campsite for 50 Girl Scouts. That’s right: On Tuesday the White House South Lawn was littered with marshmallows, tents, campfires—well,…
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I’m Considering Liposuction, but My Boyfriend Hates the Idea
I’ve lost 40 pounds and have 20 more that I would like to lose. I love my body, but I have a trouble area that will not budge with exercise and clean eating. I have decided to get liposuction if I lose the rest of the weight and the area still hasn’t budged. I feel…
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Who Is Burning Black Churches? Here’s What We Know
Since the June 17 killing of nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., six predominantly black churches in the South have burned in the past week, including one on Tuesday, causing many on social media to wonder #WhoIsBurningBlackChurches. (Fires have also hit two other churches—College Heights Baptist Church in Ohio and…
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Stop Living a Fabulous and Broke Lifestyle
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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Shamone: How Well Do You Know Your Michael Jackson videos?
Do you think you know Michael Jackson’s entire videography? Put your knowledge of the King of Pop’s best works to the ultimate test by taking our quiz!
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The Teen Who Designed Her African-Print Prom Dress Whipped Up a Dress for Naturi Naughton to Wear at the BET Awards
Kyemah McEntyre, that 18-year-old prom-dress slayer we told you about a few weeks ago, put her designing skills to use once again. And this time, her work was featured on a more prominent stage. Power actress Naturi Naughton showed up on the 2015 BET Awards red carpet rocking a dress designed by McEntyre. Like McEntyre’s prom…
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NeNe Leakes Is Leaving Real Housewives of Atlanta: ‘I Won’t Miss the Negativity’
The Queen Mother of Bravo’s Housewives franchise is exiting the building. NeNe Leakes told People magazine Monday that she will not be returning to next season’s Real Housewives of Atlanta. Arguably the most recognizable character in all the franchise—and reportedly the highest paid—Leakes described how she and her husband, Gregg Leakes, wrestled with the decision…
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