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After Drinking, 2 Secret Service Agents Allegedly Crash Their Car Into White House Barricades
Adding to what is becoming a long list of President Barack Obama’s Secret Service agents dropping the ball or behaving inappropriately, the Washington Post is reporting that two senior agents attended a party, consumed alcohol and allegedly crashed their government car into security barricades that were positioned by the White House on March 4. One…
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The Celebration Is Over, and Selma Is Still Poor
The world saw a magnificent celebration last weekend in Selma, Ala., of the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches. The racially mixed crowds were huge, exciting and orderly. More than 120,000 attended the two days of commemorative events. Foot soldiers mingled with dignitaries from the public and private sectors. President Barack Obama gave one of…
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Ferguson Police Chief Will Reportedly Step Down
Thomas Jackson, chief of the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, will resign Wednesday, Reuters is reporting via Fox News. The news comes nearly a week after a Justice Department investigation found that the Ferguson police force harbored racial biases and acted on them, much to the detriment of the city’s African-American community. The DOJ investigation was prompted by…
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Being Mary Jane: Who Is Left to Love the Black Woman?
First things first: Pauletta “Mary Jane” Patterson needs to get her key back from David. David drops by M.J.’s unannounced (again!) to vent about his baby-mama woes. He feels trapped with a woman he barely knows for the sake of the baby-to-be. M.J. doesn’t want to participate in his pity-party therapy session because what woman…
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Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams Ordered to Pay Marvin Gaye’s Family Over $7,000,000 for ‘Blurred Lines’ Infringement
Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered Tuesday to cough up nearly $7.4 million to Marvin Gaye’s children after a judge found that the duo copied Marvin Gaye’s music to create their 2013 hit single “Blurred Lines,” the Associated Press reports. “Right now I feel free,” said Nona Gaye, Martin Gaye’s daughter. According to AP,…
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Bobby Brown’s Nephew: Whitney Houston Was Murdered, Bobbi Kristina Also Targeted
The saga continues surrounding Bobby Brown’s family and what some of them may believe happened to both Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown, her daughter with Brown, the day that each woman was found unconscious in a bathtub. Houston died back in 2012, while Bobbi Kristina has been in a coma for more than a…
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Chris Brown Blasts ‘Ignorant’ Critics Who He Says Are a ‘Cancer to This Planet’
Chris Brown says he has had it with all the naysayers and “ignorant human beings” who get down and dirty in the comments section of his Instagram page, where they’ve been blasting the pop singer for his shambolic personal life. It’s probably not a pretty sight, especially since reports surfaced last week that Brown is…
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Naomi Campbell Reportedly Yells at and Shoves Model Because She Disrespected Rihanna
Naomi Campbell is not one to shy away from a fight, given her infamous rap sheet of getting it in with personal assistants and other minions who provoke her anger. That’s why it’s not much of a surprise that the New York Post is reporting that the 44-year-old supermodel got into a shoving match and weave-pulling…
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NYC Discount-Store Workers Sue for $2,000,000, Claim They Were Paid $2.27 an Hour
Fifteen people—most of them undocumented immigrants—who worked at a chain of discount stores in the Bronx and Queens in New York City filed a lawsuit against the owners, claiming that they were paid well below minimum wage at $2.27 an hour and routinely worked 11-hour days, six days a week, the New York Daily News…
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A Cane River Tale: From Slave to Free Woman to Slave Owner
Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is spotlighting less famous figures from the African American National Biography, whose stories exemplify the extraordinary, and often unsung, accomplishments of African-American women from our past. Regular readers of The Root are likely familiar with the fact that a small number of African Americans owned slaves, from the earliest days…
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