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Don’t Have a 1st Valentine’s Day Gift for Your New Man Yet? Keep It Sensual
“This is my first Valentine’s Day with my new boyfriend. I’ve waited until the last minute to get my guy a gift and I don’t want to ask him now what he wants. I am clueless about what to get him. Flowers? A massage? Cologne? A sex coupon book? What do I get him? Help!”…
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There Are Only 33 Black Students at UCLA School of Law
There are 1,100 students currently enrolled in UCLA’s School of Law. Only 33 of those students are black, representing a dismal 3 percent of the student body. To express their feelings of isolation and the frustrations that come with the burden of “representing the race,” UCLA’s black law students created a video called “33,” Buzzfeed…
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Here Is Your Black History Month Workout
It’s Black History Month, and there’s a solution for those of you who want to devote some time to celebrating black history without sacrificing your workout regimen. (This gets good.) The Legacy Workout, posted to Tumbler by creators Andia Winslow and Monique Walton, allows you to do both at the same time. Set to African…
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Quote of the Day: Marian Anderson on Childhood
You can read this quote by Marian Anderson, from her autobiography My Lord, What a Morning (1956), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the…
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Moral Movements: Civil Rights Coming Back to the Future
Black History Month reminds us of the way in which black activism has historically transcended purely race matters to rise into the stratosphere of universal movements for social justice. Fifty-four years ago this month, four black North Carolina A&T students launched a lunch counter sit-in at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., that sparked a social and…
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Neither Etiquette nor Black Culture Requires Eating Unhealthy Food
“I’m Filipina, black, native Hawaiian, white and some other pieces I probably don’t know of, and my hubby is African American. I haven’t had the closest relationship with his mother, but it’s been civil, and any distance I chalked up to the idea that no woman will ever be good enough for his son. I’ve…
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The Root Live: Bring It to the Table Premieres at 11 A.M.
In many African-American families, when we have an important issue to discuss we gather in the kitchen and bring it to the table. That’s especially true of financial discussions, whether about how to pay the bills, how to send Junior to college or where to start looking for a new job. For the next 10…
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It Should Be Called ‘The Real Homophobes of Atlanta’
As college football star and major NFL prospect Michael Sam trended on Twitter Sunday night for revealing that he is a proud gay man, The Real Housewives of Atlanta trended for opposite reasons. There is an unexplored theme in reality TV that features black women: the criminalization of black male sexuality, blatant homophobia and the…
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10 Movies That Empower Black Women
The Oscar buzz is loud for 12 Years a Slave’s Lupita Nyong’o for her riveting portrayal of Patsey, an enslaved woman who manages to out-pick her male counterparts in the cotton field and find a sliver of happiness despite her circumstances. Nyong’o’s performance—which earned her a best supporting actress nomination—is the most recent in a…
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Quote of the Day: Amy Jacques Garvey on Women as Leaders
You can read this quote by Amy Jacques Garvey, from her essay “Women as Leaders” (1925), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the…
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