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UN: Prosecute Bush Officials Who OK’d Torture at CIA Detention Camps
The U.S. Senate recently released a report detailing how the CIA used enhanced interrogation techniques on al-Qaida suspects after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the United Nations is now calling for the top officials in the George W. Bush administration who sanctioned those techniques to be brought up on charges and prosecuted, the BBC reports. “U.N.…
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Exploring the City of the Mind Through African Art
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art opened in late October 2014 in Cambridge, Mass., its exterior walls serving as both real and metaphoric grounding for the Hutchins Center for African and American Research at Harvard University (of which The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is director). A handsome, angled entry…
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Boston—With Its Turbulent Racial History—Has Awakened With the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Boston: This city has witnessed an extraordinary awakening and outpouring of #BlackLivesMatter political demonstrations over the past week and a half by a new generation of activists who are determined to change the very face of a city not known as a bastion of racial justice. In the days before Thanksgiving, upwards of 2,000 protesters…
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Guidance Counselor Said to Warn: If My Child Can’t Make Eagles Game, I Will Shoot Protesters!
A school official in Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District has been placed on paid leave after allegedly posting a threatening message on Facebook, according to NBC10. Marykate Blankenburg allegedly wrote, “If my child cannot get to the Eagles game due to protesters, I will personally SHOOT every one of them. You’ve been warned idiots!!” The post…
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NY Attorney General Wants Permission to Go After Officers Who Kill Unarmed Civilians
On Monday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman asked the governor’s office to grant his office permission to investigate and possibly bring charges against law-enforcement officials who have killed unarmed civilians, the New York Times is reporting. “Mr. Schneiderman also challenged state legislators to pass new laws to repair public confidence in the criminal-justice…
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After a $41,000,000 Settlement From NYC, the Central Park Five Want $52,000,000 From the State
The Central Park Five—the five men wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting and attempting to kill a white female jogger in New York City’s Central Park in 1989—are seeking $52 million from the state of New York in a wrongful-imprisonment claim, an amount that would be in addition to a $41 million settlement with New York…
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The Vibrancy of the Black Church on Display in Colonial America
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. A large, tumultuous group of black congregants assembles before a modest clapboard church in Philadelphia. This watercolor rendering is one…
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9 Gift Ideas for the Men in Your Life
With Christmas and Kwanzaa coming, it means it’s time to step up your gift-giving game. Whether you’re shopping for your father, husband, brother or boyfriend, we’ve got a list of the best presents for them this holiday season. 1. Served Fresh Just Ty Sweater It’s getting cold outside, and this Sunset crewneck from Served Fresh…
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Top Five Might Be Chris Rock’s Best Film Ever
What does it look like when you finally accomplish a thing that is more indicative of the total sum of your talents than anything you have done before in your life? For Chris Rock, it would look something like his new film, Top Five, which he stars in, directs and co-wrote along with Scott Rudin. …
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