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    The Root 100 2014

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  • Fashion Week Event Kicks Off The Root Live: Bring It to the Table

    The Root is kicking off a new season of The Root Live: Bring It to the Table in high style. The 16-week video series, sponsored by Prudential, which explores financial issues in the African-American community, premieres Wednesday, Sept. 10, with a star-studded Fashion Week event. Designer Byron Lars of Byron Lars Beauty Mark is joined by…

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  • The Root Live Round 2

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  • New Reality Show Chronicling Ja Rule’s Family Life Is Coming to MTV 

    MTV seems to have learned a thing or two from VH1 and rapper T.I. about having a hip-hop superstar-turned-family man spearhead a reality show. According to Variety, MTV has signed off on a half-hour reality show that will chronicle Ja Rule’s home life with his wife, mother-in-law and three kids. The press statement that Ja…

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  • Keli Goff Leaves The Root to Join the Writing Staff of BET’s Being Mary Jane

    As summer gives way to fall, The Root is feeling bittersweet about our own transition as Keli Goff, our special correspondent, leaves us to join the writing staff of BET’s Being Mary Jane. Goff joined The Root’s editorial team in 2012 and built a compelling catalog of articles that offer unique insight on topics ranging from politics…

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  • 2nd Black American Fighting for ISIS in Syria Is Reportedly Killed

    Abdirahmaan Muhumed is reportedly the second black American to have been killed while fighting in Syria for the jihadist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to CBS News and KSMP-TV in Minneapolis. Muhumed was reportedly killed in the same melee that took the life of Douglas McAuthur McCain, the first American—and first black American—known…

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  • Michael Sam Cut By St. Louis Rams

    “It was a football decision.” With those words St. Louis Rams coach Mike Fisher announced that defensive end Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL, fell short of making the 53-man roster for the team. Fisher praised Sam’s pre-season performance in which he had 11 tackles and three sacks. According to…

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  • Black Men: ‘I’m Tired of Feeling Like Someone’s Enemy’

    Editor’s note: We began this summer with a commemoration of Freedom Summer 50 years after blood was shed on Southern soil to ensure our inalienable right to vote as citizens of these United States. We end this summer with renewed cries for freedom—the freedom to walk our neighborhood streets without dying, the freedom to pick…

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  • Study: Whites Have 1 Black Friend; Blacks Have 8 White Friends

    When Beverly Daniel Tatum published Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? back in 2003, she used some statistical evidence to explain why black and white students self-segregate and also relied on anecdotes from her experiences as a black student at predominantly white schools. Those people who asked, “Well, aren’t all the…

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  • The Growing Movement to Make Attacks Against Homeless People a Hate Crime

    Seven states are looking to stop attacks on homeless people who are being targeted because of their race, religion and sexual orientation. Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Rhode Island and Washington have all tweaked their hate crime laws so that these kinds of attacks will earn perpetrators longer prison sentences, Al-Jazeera reports. The National Coalition…

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