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  • $3,000,000 Donated to Scholarship Fund for Emanuel AME Church Community

    A $3 million scholarship fund set up in the name of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was announced Thursday in Charleston, S.C., scene of the horrific mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, including Pinckney, who was also a state senator. Here is an excerpt from the press release…

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  • Everyone’s Sunday Best at the 2015 BET Awards

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  • Finding Your Roots Season Delayed by PBS Over Ben Affleck Story

    The third season of the ancestry-research program Finding Your Roots, hosted by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., has been postponed by PBS after a determination that an episode of the program featuring actor Ben Affleck violated the network’s standards. In a strongly worded statement, PBS announced that the network is “postponing the scheduling of…

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  • ‘Take Dat’: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Allegedly Attacks Son’s Football Coach

    Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly been arrested for allegedly attacking a UCLA football coach who made the mistake of ignoring him, TMZ reports. Strength-and-conditioning coach Sal Alosi allegedly “screamed intensely” at Combs’ son Justin Combs, who plays defensive back for the Bruins. According to law enforcement, Combs swung a kettlebell weight at Alosi after the…

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  • Photos: The Root Took Over Hot-lanta With Its manCODE Event

    On Wednesday The Root continued its manCODE discussion series for 2015 at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Approximately 200 young black professionals, seasoned executives, fathers and a few young sons gathered to discuss entrepreneurship, the social-justice issues affecting our communities and the legacies that black men strive to leave behind.  The event was sponsored by Prudential. The conversation was shepherded by a…

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  • Civil Rights Groups Speak Out on Charleston, SC, Church Shooting

    Several civil rights organizations issued responses to the Wednesday shooting deaths of nine people at the hands of alleged gunman 21-year-old Dylann Roof. Roof allegedly opened fire on a Bible-study group at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., killing six women and three men, including the church’s pastor, state Sen. Clementa C.…

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  • It’s Time Again for ‘the Blackest White People We Know’

    A few years ago, we did a few roundups of a bunch of white people who, well, exhibited traits, dispositions and interests more consistent with the black experience.  Rachel Dolezal, the president of a local NAACP chapter in Washington state, has practically emerged as the mascot for this group. The prima donna of “the Blackest White People We Know.” Reports…

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  • LAPD Clears 2 Officers in Fatal Shooting of Ezell Ford

    The Los Angeles Police Department has cleared officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas in the shooting death of Ezell Ford on Aug. 11, 2014, calling the shooting “justified,” the Los Angeles Times reports. As ppreviously reported by The Root, Ford was shot three times, including once in the back at such close range that the…

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  • What?! Brittney Griner Seeks to Annul Her Marriage to Glory Johnson

    WNBA star Brittney Griner has announced that she has filed papers seeking to annul her marriage to fellow WNBA star Glory Johnson 28 days into the union, ESPN reports. The shocking news comes one day after Johnson announced on Instagram that she is expecting the couple’s first child. Both are 24. In a statement released…

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  • Amazing Graduates Overcoming the Odds

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