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  • How These Former Inmates Are Fighting for Prison Reform

    Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur, Shaka Senghor and Chris Wilson are activists, community leaders and businessmen. They are also among the formerly incarcerated. The three are speaking out about their journey from prison to prosperity and why the American justice system needs to move away from mass incarceration and more toward rehabilitation and reform. Their efforts as…

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  • Mich. Woman Shot Up McDonald’s Drive-Thru After Botched Bacon Order

    A Michigan jury found Shaneka Torres guilty of shooting up a McDonald’s drive-thru window because employees at the fast-food chain twice forgot to add bacon to her cheeseburger order, the New York Daily News reports. Both encounters happened on the same day in February 2014, when Torres placed an order for a cheeseburger with bacon.…

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  • Being Mary Jane Recap: ‘One Last Question’

    A welcome change is on the horizon for Mary Jane Paul. When Sheldon calls while she’s microwaving cordon bleu (of course she lies and says she was cooking it), the two have one of those early “getting to know you” sessions where people ask each other all kinds of questions, like, “Malcolm or Martin?” Sheldon…

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  • What Was That About Black People Not Being Able to Swim? 

    It was an unprecedented event for NCAA swimming. It was as symbolic as it was historic in that it provided a revealing reality concerning the sport of swimming and marked the official introduction of African-American women as a force in an arena that has failed to attract or embrace them in the past. It was…

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  • Chicago’s Stop-and-Frisk Program Worse Than NYC’s: Report

    New York City’s stop-and-frisk program has captured national headlines because of how black and Hispanic men are disproportionately affected by the tactic, but according to the Associated Press, Chicago’s stop-and-frisk program is much more robust than New York’s. According to a report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union, Chicago officers stopped and frisked people…

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  • A Third of Atlanta Patients Tested for HIV Already Have AIDS: Study

    Because HIV testing is not available in the places where most people in Atlanta see their doctors, by the time Atlanta residents are diagnosed with the virus, nearly 3 out of 10 already have full-blown AIDS, WABE reports. That’s what experts found after they went digging for why Atlanta emerged fifth on a list of U.S.…

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  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T the Queen: 10 Times Aretha Franklin Stole the Show

    Editor’s note: This week we’re celebrating the birthdays of phenomenal performers who not only share late-March birthdays but who also have voices that have defined their generations. On Monday we honored the Queen of Funk, Chaka Khan. Today it’s the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. Then, on Thursday, it’s the boss, Diana Ross, and on Friday, the…

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  • Black, Asian and Hispanic Consumers Are the Fastest-Growing Group in Consumer Economy

    Advertisers looking to get the most out of their bucks should be looking to multicultural consumers. According to a Nielsen report released Wednesday, multicultural consumers are exhibiting tremendous spending power and are the fastest-growing segment of the country’s “consumer economy.” The report, “The Multicultural Edge: Rising Super Consumers,” looked at the spending habits of African…

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  • I’m a White Mom With Biracial Children, and What I Do With Their Hair Is No One’s Business

    Maybe I’m just not the type of parent who likes unsolicited advice or people getting in my personal space, but one of the things that I’ve noticed about parenting a mixed-race child is that the general public seems to have no boundaries. When you become a mother, you notice that the boundaries people usually have…

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  • How a Black Slave Girl Came to Symbolize Wealth and Natural Beauty in the South American Tropics

    This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Dominating a tropical landscape filled with an array of sumptuous fruit, a splendidly dressed noblewoman of colonial Spain evokes the…

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