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How Far Back Can You Trace My Black Family?
I have a lot of questions regarding my family’s history. With my grandfather’s recent passing, I was compelled to finally write in. My maternal grandparents, Woodrow Kimble Jr. and Martha Belle Kimble, were born and raised in Shreveport, La. My grandfather was born on Dec. 30, 1943, and died on Nov. 7 of this year.…
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Mr. Peanut Does the Dab at Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
No matter what the circumstance in America, black culture (and people) will always reveal its genius. Social media is going absolutely nuts over Mr. Peanut (born circa 1916) and his dabbin moves at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Watch him now: Not bad, Mr. Peanut, not bad. Happy Thanksgiving! For more of black Twitter, check…
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Sojourner Truth Was Enslaved by Family of Rutgers’ 1st President
Like many other colleges that are now being forced to atone for their past transgressions against people of color (Georgetown’s sale of slaves to save the college, UT Austin and its fawning relationship with Jefferson Davis, Yale and its buildings named for slaveholders), Rutgers University is also soberly looking at its not-so-pristine history. In a recently…
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Gucci Mane Proposes to Girlfriend at Hawks Game
When the “kiss cam” at Tuesday night’s Atlanta Hawks game landed on Gucci Mane and longtime girl Keyshia Ka’oir, the Ice Cream Man whipped out a rock befitting his name. Gucci, who performed at the game’s halftime show, was sitting next to Ka’oir in floor seats when he made his move. As Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get…
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#Recount2016: Jill Stein Raises $3,000,000 for Vote Recount in 3 States Clinton Narrowly Lost
Perhaps that “blue wall” held after all. Or maybe the Defiance election-rigging plotline from Scandal has really come to life. In the last week, prominent computer scientists and election lawyers have been urging the Hillary Clinton campaign to challenge election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, three swing states that Donald Trump won, ceding him the…
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The Best Cyber Monday Deals
Hello Root readers! For the last five years, Kinja Deals has produced the best deals coverage on the internet, and we’re thrilled to be bringing it your way for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and beyond. We’ll be keeping this post up-to-date all week with a handful of the best deals that Cyber Monday has to offer, but…
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Authorities Search for Babysitter in Texas After Infant Dies
Police in Texas are searching for a babysitter by the name of Antoine Allen Gorman after a child he was babysitting was allegedly injured in his care, CBS News reports. Police arrived at an apartment complex Tuesday night in Freeport, Texas, after receiving a report about a 2-month-old infant who was not breathing. The child…
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The Voters Who Never Got to Cast Their Ballots
A 2013 Supreme Court decision hung ominously over the 2016 presidential election as Congress left for the campaign trail in October. While voters were being inundated with campaign ads and constant coverage of the 2016 election cycle, there was little media coverage regarding a sizable segment of the U.S. population that would be excluded from…
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How African Culture Influences What We Eat Around the World
Do you wonder how our culture influences how and what we eat? For a large part of the world’s nearly 170 million people of the African Diaspora, what is cooked in the kitchen and served at the table is, as Maya Angelou says, “more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.” Remnants of the Diaspora…
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Bring a Taste of the Diaspora to Your Thanksgiving Table
Turkey, ham, stuffing or dressing, gravy, collard greens, mac and cheese, candied yams (with marshmallows), cranberry sauce (from the can … gotta be from the can)—yes, it’s Thanksgiving, and this menu is the foundation. It is so ubiquitous; asking your friends what they will be eating this holiday is reduced to shorthand, an easy guessing…
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