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10 People You Should Be Following on Twitter
In honor of Black History Month, it’s a great time to highlight those experts in our community who are really giving out great advice and information to help us all become better people and business owners. These 10 experts inhabit the realms of business, politics and life-coaching to bring you the best information, 140 characters…
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Remembering Trayvon on His 19th Birthday
Trayvon Martin would have turned 19 years old today had he not been shot and killed by George Zimmerman nearly two years ago. His mother, Sybrina Fulton, shared this birthday tribute to her slain son earlier today: It’s tough to digest, made more difficult by the news today that rapper DMX has accepted the challenge…
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The Obamas and CVS on the Same Page About Quitting Smoking
Today one of the biggest national drugstore chains announced something that would once have been unthinkable: It will cease selling one of its most in-demand items, simply because the company believes that’s the right thing to do. Sounds hard to believe, right? Sure does. But could CVS Pharmacy’s decision to quit selling cigarettes as of Oct.…
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To Win With Black Voters, GOP Can’t Just Preach to the Choir
Entering the elegantly restored Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, you could hear the reverberating gospel sound of “Lift Every Voice”—sung by Patrick Lundy & the Ministers of Music—flowing out of the lobby, and see a steady stream of African-American guests flowing in. They were there for a luncheon and, yes, the music, but…
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Quote of the Day: Madam C.J. Walker on Entrepreneurship
You can read this Madam C.J. Walker quote, from her speech to the National Negro Business League (1912), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Walker 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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Film Classics Reimagined With African Leading Ladies
We wish that the film remakes featured in the exhibit ONOMOllywood, the brainchild of Dakar, Senegal-based photographers Omar Victor Diop and Antoine Tempé, were real. The duo was approached by hotel group Onomo International to create a photo series that used Onomo’s hotels as a backdrop. Diop and Tempé decided to create a 20-photo exhibit…
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You Should Watch the Winter Olympics, and Here’s Why
For most of the 90 years that the Winter Olympics Games have been staged, snow and ice was not only the competitive landscape but also the perfect racial metaphor for the games and their athletes. While the colorful, five-ringed Olympic flag symbolized the games’ global reach, there was little color to be seen in the…
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6 Tips for Interracial Couples Who Get Stares and Weird Comments
“I wonder if you’ve addressed the interracial-couple dilemma: the questions, side glances, comments (‘You’re such a cute couple’), etc. I’m a black woman and have been with my boyfriend for five years. While I’ve inoculated myself against the stares and comments, I still struggle with the knowledge that our skin is all some people see.…
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LeVar Burton Disses Philip Seymour Hoffman on Twitter
Former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton stepped into it Sunday when he distastefully weighed in on actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. Strange, huh? It got worse. Twitter pounced on him for his insensitivity. So, of course, he doubled down, declaring that Hoffman “wasted a great gift”: Not sure why Burton became Judgy McJudgy over Hoffman’s…
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Quote of the Day: Nella Larsen on Faith
You can read this quote from the novel Quicksand, and others from Nella Larsen, 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 editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow…
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