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Juicy J Awards Twerking Scholarship to Non-Twerking Student
Rapper Juicy J, who recorded a really popular song about women who dance for money, just awarded 19-year-old biology major and single mother Zaire Holmes a $50,000 scholarship. Yea, Zaire! Holmes was the grand prize winner of Juicy J’s Video Contest scholarship, in which the rapper, in partnership with World Star Hip Hop, asked students to…
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Obama’s Initiative: One Promise, Different Zones
President Barack Obama is a man on a mission. As the second year of his second term commences, he embarks on a progressive agenda, mirroring the campaign of hope and change that originally inspired a new generation of voters in 2008. Key to his platform is an unapologetic focus on income inequality, the long-term unemployed…
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Quote of the Day: Geronimo ji-Jaga on Black Prisoners
You can read this quote from a 1997 Essence interview with Geronimo ji-Jaja in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote is referenced 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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Why Is This Black Youth Scuffling With a Horse?
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. One of the most well-preserved, vivid impressions of the ancient Greek…
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Fat-Shaming Trolls Need to Get Over Gabourey Sidibe’s Weight
Gabourey Sidibe attended the Golden Globes Awards Sunday night. And in what has become a time-honored (and vile) tradition anytime she appears anywhere and happens to be photographed, some viewers thought it would be a good idea to mock her weight. Again. There was, of course, the flat-out name-calling, which was clear fat-shaming. And then…
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Gabourey Sidibe Responds to Everyone Who Hated Her Dress
Twitter had mean, mean things to say about Gabourey Sidibe and the dress she wore to last night’s 71st Annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony. The American Horror Story actress walked the red carpet in a long, shimmery, short-sleeved cream number. And it was pretty. But it wasn’t the dress that body shamers hated. It was…
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Delta Sigma Theta Celebrates Founders Day
On Jan. 13, 1913, 22 women at Howard University founded Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Since then, the sorority has seen many outstanding women among its membership and honorary ranks. Here are 12 of them. 1. Dorothy Height Rho chapter Civil rights leader 2. Melissa Harris-Perry Pi Omicron chapter Professor, public intellectual 3. Angela Bassett Honorary…
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Beyoncé’s Feminist Essay: Yes, That Was Smart
Would Beyoncé be interesting to hang out with in person? Is she really, truly musically talented? Does she deserve to be called a feminist? Is she actively scheming to heal deep-seated African-American cultural wounds by letting her 2-year-old’s hair look like a 2-year-old’s hair? Welcome to the list of highly subjective and largely unanswerable questions…
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Eagles Receiver DeSean Jackson’s Home Is Burglarized
Philadelphia Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson’s home was robbed of cash, jewelry and a handgun, totaling some $250,000, ESPN reports. The burglary to Jackson’s Philadelphia home happened while he was on vacation, and according to police reports viewed by ESPN, there was no sign of forced entry. Jackson’s mother, who discovered the apparent burglary on Saturday…
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12 Years a Slave Won, but Black Hollywood Was Snubbed at Golden Globes
Last night’s Golden Globes may be considered a big night for the slavery epic 12 Years a Slave, which took home the award for best motion picture, drama. But it was not a big night for the film’s stars, director or frankly anyone else who happened to be black and in the room that evening.…
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