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Why Dennis Rodman's North Korea Trip Is Still On
Former NBA player Dennis Rodman plans to head to North Korea next week to train the country’s basketball team, an excursion unchanged by the execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, the Associated Press reports. “Yes, I’m going to North Korea to train the basketball team,” he told the AP by phone. “I’m going to…
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Desmond Tutu Will Attend Mandela’s Funeral
Updated: Saturday, Dec. 14, 7:33 p.m. ET: The Associated Press is reporting that retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced late Saturday that he plans to attend the funeral of his long-time friend and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. A spokesman did not explain Tutu’s reversal, but said he would catch an early flight and arrive on time…
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Megyn Kelly Slams Race Baiters, White Santa Remarks Were Tongue-in-Cheek
After she was roundly criticized earlier this week for insisting that Santa is white, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly took to the air Friday to say, well, she was joking. She also hit back at race baiters, accusing them of whipping things into a frenzy just to attack the conservative station. “Humor is what we…
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Did Jay Z Give Up Cheddar to Stack Bread?
For Jay Z, aka Shawn Carter, no recent month has been more favorable to his image as hip-hop’s preeminent renaissance man than his birthday month, December. As reported previously by The Shadow League, Jay recently secured a 10-year, $240 million contract for 31-year-old All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano with the Seattle Mariners on Dec. 6. This came…
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If Mandela Were Here: The Battles He Would Wage
As we came together to plan the national memorial service of our world’s father, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, it dawned on me that we were planning the impossible. We were trying to package what could never fit in a box. No one title could completely encapsulate Mandela. He was a freedom fighter, a visionary, a change…
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Quote of the Day: Harriet Ann Jacobs on Slavery
Read this quote and additional quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. 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 him on Twitter and Facebook.
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How to Stop the Killing of All Our Children
Earlier this week I found myself on a flight to Atlanta so that I could stand in solidarity, as a father, with the parents of a murdered son. Like the few hundred others who gathered outside the Georgia state Capitol on a chilly Wednesday morning, I believed that I was seeking justice for the yet-to-be-explained…
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Here’s Megyn Kelly’s Kwanzaa Reading Assignment
It’s a shame that Fox News’ Megyn Kelly wasn’t on the air Thursday night to explain why she told her viewers Wednesday night that “Santa just is white,” so is Jesus, and “those are just facts.” She left that lump of coal in our stockings, and none of her panelists even bothered to question Kelly’s…
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Why Was My Black Ancestor Listed as a Slave Owner?
“I have traced my great-grandfather, Kinchen Bell, back on the 1850 Census Slave Schedule for Kentucky. He is listed in the slave owners’ column and indicated as being black. There is an adult female listed who I believe is his wife, my great-grandmother, Sarah. There are a number of minor children listed. When I went…
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Best Reactions to Beyoncé’s Late-Night Album Drop
Last night, Beyoncé was kind enough to let us watch Scandal before pulling the pop music stunt of the year. Or maybe decade? Rumors of album delays and random song leaks had us waiting anxiously all year for an announcement on Bey’s fifth studio-album release date. But in lieu of an announcement, Bey just gave…
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