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Keeping Up With the Pharaohs: Mummies in Stylish Footwear
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. Four naked warriors, all still wearing a quiver of arrows, but lacking their bows, kneel within the decorative borders of…
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Obama: Let’s Set Aside $50 Million to Restore Historic Civil Rights Sites
In a new budget plan, President Obama has earmarked approximately $50 million to be used to restore the national park sites affiliated with the civil rights movement. The move is a way to commemorate this year’s 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, The Hill reports. Obama hopes to invest in sites such as the Selma…
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John Hope Franklin: A Life of Firsts and Flowers
Editor’s note: They Did It First is The Root’s new weekly series on trailblazing people and events in the history of black America. Who was the first (and only) historian to have an orchid named for him? It certainly wasn’t his only “first,” but it was his most unusual. Revered historian John Hope Franklin, the author of…
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Watch: N.Y. Cop Draws Gun on Black Youths to Halt Snowball Fight
A New York community is up in arms after video footage surfaced of a New Rochelle, N.Y., police officer holding several teens at gunpoint after responding to a 911 call about a disturbance that turned out to be a snowball fight, according to Raw Story, citing a report at Talk of the Sound. In the…
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Tamir Rice’s Family Amends Wrongful Death Suit Over Shooting Death
The family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy who was gunned down by a police officer while on a playground, have filed amendments to their federal lawsuit, the Associated Press reports. New attorneys representing the child’s family on Friday filed the updated federal lawsuit against the city, the officer who shot Tamir, another officer…
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Watch: D’Angelo Heats Up Comeback With 1st SNL Performance
After a yearslong hiatus, R&B crooner D’Angelo returned to the limelight with a performance on Saturday Night Live yesterday, singing two singles from his 2014 CD release Black Messiah. It was his first performance on the late-night comedy show, reports Mediaite. The performance comes a few weeks before the kickoff of his Second Coming Tour…
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Report: Bobbi Kristina’s Family Told to Prepare for the Worst
Updated Sunday, Feb. 1, 7:12 p.m.: A source close to the family tells ET that her father, Bobby Brown; husband, Nick Gordon; and others have been told to prepare for the worst and that the longer Bobbi Kristina remains in the coma, the more likely it will be that she will not regain consciousness. In…
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That Time When a NASA Astronaut’s Photo Went Viral
Retired NASA astronaut Leland Melvin became an instant hit on social media earlier this week after a photo of him and dogs went viral, according to ABC News. Melvin, who retired from NASA last February, according to the space agency, appears in the traditional orange spacesuit worn by astronauts in their official photos, posing alongside his…
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Actress Daniele Watts Pleads Not Guilty to Lewd Conduct
A lawyer for Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts and her boyfriend, Brian Lucas, appeared on their behalf and entered pleas of not guilty to misdemeanor charges of lewd conduct, the Associated Press reports. The lawyer, Lou Shapiro, entered the pleas in court Tuesday, but neither Watts nor Lucas was present, the report says. Their case…
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Officer on Desk Duty in Arrest of Elderly Vet Who Used Golf Club as Cane
A Seattle police officer was assigned to desk duty this week after an uproar over a video showing an encounter between her and a 69-year-old man who refused to drop a golf club he was using as a cane, the Associated Press reports. Officer Cynthia Whitlatch ordered the man, William Wingate, to drop the golf…
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