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White Mother Sues Sperm Bank After Birth of Mixed-Race Daughter
A Chicago-area sperm bank is being sued by an Ohio woman for mistakenly giving her vials from an African-American donor, reports the Chicago Tribune. Jennifer Cramblett, who is white, filed a lawsuit stating that Midwest Sperm Bank gave her the vials of a black man instead of the white man she and her partner had…
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Watch: Making of Time Is Illmatic Documentary
Time Is Illmatic, a documentary released for the 20th anniversary of Nas’ debut album, Illmatic, is opening in select theaters. The Root sat down with the fillmmakers, Erik Parker and One9, to hear the story behind the creative process of making the film.
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Orphans of Ebola Are Being Ostracized by Cautious Relatives
As of press time, the first Ebola victim had been diagnosed here in the U.S.—and approximately 3,000 people have died because of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. But what has been neglected and underreported are the children the dead are leaving behind. West African orphans, many of them with one or both parents deceased, are…
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Anti-Islam Ad Featuring Beheaded American Journalist Pulled by Hate Group
The only thing that stopped an anti-Islam advocacy group from running an incendiary ad in New York City’s bus and subway system is the phone call it got from the attorney representing the family of James Foley—the American journalist who was beheaded by ISIS in Syria—begging the organization not to. The ad would have featured Foley’s face…
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What Obama Should Do for His Last 2 Years in Office
It was just a couple of weeks ago that first lady Michelle Obama seemed to weigh in on how President Barack Obama’s legacy was shaping up thus far. “When folks ask me whether I still believe everything we said about change and hope back in 2008, I tell them that I believe it more strongly…
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Congress Interrogates Secret Service Director About White House Invasion
One silver lining in this media firestorm about how the Secret Service has had one too many mishaps lately is that it’s at least nice to see that Republicans are concerned about the president’s safety. They may not like President Barack Obama, but they want him alive and his house intact and impenetrable. According to…
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Paging Dr. Ben Carson: Based on That Fox News Interview, You Need a Political Tuneup—Stat
If you’re a regular The Root reader, you already know that I’m fairly skeptical about the prospects of a 2016 presidential run by current Fox News contributor and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. If not, read here, here, here, here and here. My basic takeaway is that Carson—the first surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at…
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New Study Seeks to ‘Unlock Opportunity for African-American Girls’
A new report from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Women’s Law Center seeks to explain the reasons behind the often depressing statistics that black girls and women face. It’s a response to President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, the $200 million program for boys of color that received heavy…
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Can Crowdfunding Finance Your Dream?
Bill Duke, director of the highly acclaimed documentary Dark Girls, joins The Root Live: Bring It to the Table on Wednesday, Oct. 1, to talk about his experience with crowdfunding. The Root Live, sponsored by Prudential, is a weekly video series tackling financial concerns in the African-American community. Duke is joined in the discussion by Denmark…
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Thug Kitchen: A Recipe in Blackface
When I first clicked through the recipes at Thug Kitchen, a tongue-in-cheek, vegan cooking blog served up with a heaping side of expletives, I imagined a calorie-conscious, gangly young black man who’s particularly vehement about clean eating, insistently tapping recipes into his blog while Dead Prez reverberates in the background. He has a good eye,…
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