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    212-455-5200 605 3rd Avenue, 12th Floor New York, NY 10158 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] UNIVISION COMMUNICATIONS INC. ACQUIRES PREMIER WEBSITE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN INFLUENCERS, THE ROOT, TO ENGAGE AMERICA’S GROWING MULTICULTURAL POPULATION MIAMI – MAY 21, 2015 – Univision Communications, Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America, today announced that it has acquired The Root,…

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  • Watch: Donald Trump Cancels Rally in Chicago After Supporters and Protesters Clash

    Donald Trump canceled a rally Friday at the University of Illinois at Chicago after protesters and Trump supporters confronted each other in the venue. Trump, who never made it inside, issued this statement: Mr. Trump just arrived in Chicago and after meeting with law enforcement has determined that for the safety of all of the…

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  • Black Stereotypes in White Hollywood: Leslie Jones’ Ghostbusters Controversy More Complicated Than Meets the Eye

    Editor’s note: This article contains tweets that some may find offensive. In the Ghostbusters reboot, Saturday Night Live’s Leslie Jones plays a street-savvy transit worker in New York City who joins a merry band of scientists played by Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon. Notable for both its nostalgia and its all-female ensemble cast, the film…

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  • Oscars Red Carpet: Black Stars Represent With Classy, Elegant Styles

    Jada and Will weren’t there; neither was Spike Lee. And directors Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler were working on serious issues like #JusticeForFlint. But black stars did show up to represent at Sunday’s 88th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif. Take a look.

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  • Hillary Clinton Scores a Huge Win in South Carolina

    It’s a big win in a big test for the black vote on the Democratic side. Multiple news outlets are reporting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has handidly won the state of South Carolina over her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. At the time of publication, Clinton had won South Carolina by an…

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  • The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Takes It to the Left Coast

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  • Vote for Your America: The Root Joins Groundbreaking Voter-Engagement Campaign

    No one is expecting the turnout of African-American voters in 2016 to reach the record-shattering numbers of 2008, when Barack Obama lit up the black electorate. But there are critical issues at stake for the black community—the Supreme Court, job growth, health care, criminal justice—with the choice of the next president and other officeholders hanging…

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