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  • Beyoncé Causes Teenage Pregnancy? Bill O’Reilly Thinks So

    This is not the first time Bill O’Reilly has ranted about Beyoncé, but this might be his most ridiculous. The Fox television host decried Beyoncé’s appearance on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world, accusing the singer of “harming” children, according to the Guardian. The newspaper reported that the conservative talking head…

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  • There’s Still Bias Out There, and We Still Need Affirmative Action

    Last week the Supreme Court issued a decision upholding a ban on the use of affirmative action by public universities in Michigan. Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented strongly and, in addition to reviewing the legal basis for the use of affirmative action, issued a personal challenge: to speak candidly about race. Conversations about affirmative action…

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  • NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s Powerful Statement on Donald Sterling

    Editor’s note: This statement was delivered Tuesday, April 29, by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver regarding the punishment for Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who made racially derogatory and racist comments on a recording later released by the website TMZ. Shortly after the release of an audio recording this past Saturday morning of a conversation…

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  • 14-Year-Old Chicago Girl Killed by Female Classmate 

    Very rarely do we hear about gun violence between young girls. A 14-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 14-year-old Endia Martin. According to ABC7 Chicago, Endia was shot by a female classmate on Monday while walking home from Tilden Career Academy, when she was shot in the…

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  • Don’t Knock V. Stiviano’s Gold-Digging Hustle

    Like every other adult with Internet access, I’ve been following the Donald Sterling saga since TMZ released the hidden recording of his racist rants on Friday night. Over the past many days, it’s all anyone seems to talk about. Surely, recently departed Scandal co-star Columbus Short is somewhere thanking the gods for taking the attention…

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  • Get a Grip, America. Don Sterling’s Racist Rant Isn’t Anything New

    The uproar over the racist comments allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling continues, with folks launching petitions and calling for his head with as much venom as Cersei Lannister from an episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones. For some strange reason, people act surprised by the comments made by Sterling, who has…

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  • Black Success Can’t Change Warped Views Like Donald Sterling’s

    Revelations of the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s reportedly racist comments about African Americans shine light on contemporary race relations, where, frequently, the truth is only said behind closed doors. Sterling’s alleged remarks, about a female friend “associating with black people” was spurred by pictures that she posted to her Instagram account, posing with…

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  • The Black Saint Who Embodied Christianity for the African Masses

    This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. This remarkable black saint, whose story of victory and piety begins…

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  • Donald Sterling vs. Systemic Racism: It’s OK, We Can Talk About Both

    Editor’s note: We took Race Manners to Facebook today, where The Root’s senior staff writer, Jenée Desmond-Harris, engaged in a live Q&A with readers. They wanted to talk about—what else?—Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s recent racist rant, how we should make sense of it, and the players’ reaction to the news that their boss didn’t want…

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  • 10 Jaw-Dropping Instances of Racism in Professional Sports

    Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and, by association, the NBA are having one hell of a week. TMZ released an audiotape of a man who sounds an awful lot like Sterling, expressing disgust over his girlfriend’s Instagram photos with black men. But this isn’t the first time that “sports” and “race” have collided in…

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