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Muslim Man Hailed as Hero for Hiding Hostages During Paris Attack
When Amedy Coulibaly—one of the assailants responsible for the shooting attacks in France last week—threatened to kill hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris, a young Muslim man led people to a walk-in freezer below the supermarket to shield them from harm, CNN reports. Lassana Bathily, an employee at the Hyper Cacher supermarket, is being…
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The Complexities of Race Hidden Within a Simple Display of Everyday Life
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. Genre painting—that is, the representation of anecdotal life—occupied a special place in the hearts of painters, collectors and critics of…
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Faith and Service Motivate Notre Dame’s 2010 Valedictorian
When Katie Washington-Cole was growing up in Gary, Ind., with its jagged industrial skyline, she dreamed of following in her parents’ footsteps and entering the medical field. Her father was a physician and her mother was a nurse. Both encouraged academic achievement and taught young Katie, among other things, the importance of giving back to…
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New Video Shows Montana Cop Sobbing After Shooting Unarmed Man
Grant Morrison, a Montana police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in April, sobbed several minutes after the shooting occurred once he realized that the man didn’t have a gun, a dash-cam video recently released to the public reveals. Morrison shot and killed Richard Ramirez, a 38-year-old man who was sitting in his car…
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French Assailant Appears in Video Justifying the Attack Against Charlie Hebdo
Amedy Coulibaly—one of the assailants responsible for the wave of attacks that claimed the lives of journalists, police officers and hostages in France last week—appears in a video released to the public on Sunday in which he attempts to justify the attacks. “What we are doing is completely legitimate, given what they are doing,” Coulibaly,…
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Can You Guess How Many White Americans Have African Ancestry?
When I got the idea to do a PBS series about the roots of the African-American people, I was inspired by two sources: first, of course, by Alex Haley’s Roots; and second by the new science of ancestry-tracing through the use of DNA, to which I had been introduced by my friend Dr. Rick Kittles,…
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Selma: They Lived the History, Now They Watch the Movie
Selma, Ala.: In 1965, when nonviolent activists in Alabama made that valiant trek from Selma to Montgomery for the right to vote, the Rev. Frederick D. Reese was in the front row, leading the way with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others. On Saturday the 85-year-old Baptist minister sat in a packed theater in…
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Glitz and Glam on the Red Carpet at the Golden Globes
If you missed the red-carpet preshows for the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night, here is a recap of some of the stars and fashion that graced the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton. David Oyelowo was nominated in the category Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for Selma. Quvenzhané Wallis…
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Black Hollywood Prepares to Shine at Golden Globe Awards 2015
Black Hollywood is prepared to shine at tonight’s 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., where Kevin Hart is scheduled to be among several presenters. Ava DuVernay, who directed the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma and is the first black woman to be nominated for a best director…
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Watch: Ind. Couple Arrested After Filming 1-Year-Old Playing With Gun
A 22-year-old Evansville, Ind., mother has been charged with child neglect after a video surfaced of her 1-year-old daughter playing with a handgun and shouting “pow” to emulate the sound of gunfire, the Daily Mail reports. The mother, Toni Wilson, a former cashier at McDonald’s, and her partner, Michael Barnes, 19, were arrested after police discovered…
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