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A Basketball Wife and Baby Daddy: Don’t Follow Their Example
In the midst of the worldwide media coverage surrounding the death of human rights hero Nelson Mandela, another big news story was deemed worthy of ample coverage on international news sites and blogs. Apparently a major celebrity is pregnant, and she decided to unveil the identity of the father as a press announcement as if…
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Detroit’s City Workers Facing Poverty and Debt
The largest annual salary Donald Smith ever collected while working for the city of Detroit was $28,000. But the lure of a pension and a lack of skills to pursue higher-paying jobs kept him at the city for 29 years, even as he watched the industrial stalwart become a faded remnant of its former self.…
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Exclusive: Black Girls Rock! Founder Hits Back at Insulting #whitegirlsrock
When I heard about the “#whitegirlsrock” hashtag that trended on Twitter, my immediate reaction was, “Well, duh! Of course white girls rock. Are they unaware?” White women’s beauty, talent, diversity and worldly contributions are affirmed everywhere: on billboards, on television, in magazines and in textbooks. However, the breadth and depth of the beauty, intellect, work…
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Was the Lone Ranger Black?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 59:…
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Quote of the Day: Barbara Jordan on Race Consciousness
Read how the quote is referenced in Barbara Jordan’s obituary 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 him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Victim Calls Knockout Game a Myth
A Pittsburgh teacher who reportedly was knocked out during a random attack refuses to attribute the incident to an alleged trend, known as the knockout game, the Huffington Post reports. James Addlespurger, seen on video in October 2012 getting hit in the head, told the Huffington Post that he views the attack as an “assault, plain…
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South Africans Hold Day of Prayer for Mandela
South African President Nelson Mandela was remembered Sunday during a day of prayer in his country—“from a vaulted cathedral with hymns and incense to a rural, hilltop church with goat-skin drums and barefoot dancing,” the Associated Press reports. The day precedes a Tuesday memorial at a Johannesburg stadium that is expected to draw a wide…
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Obamas, Royalty Slated to Attend Mandela Memorial on Tuesday
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are scheduled to join tens of thousands of local mourners, dozens of other foreign leaders at the memorial service Tuesday for former South African President Nelson Mandela, the Associated Press reports. South African officials told the AP that the crowd would likely surpass the normal seating capacity…
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Why Westboro Baptist Church Plans to Protest Mandela’s Funeral
Members of Westboro Baptist Church reportedly plan to fly to South Africa to protest the funeral of Nelson Mandela, News One reports. The 95-year-old former South African leader died on Dec. 5. In an outrageous claim, the fringe group took to Twitter to announce the protest, calling Mandela an adulterer who does not deserve to…
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College Student Goes Online to Rent a Family for the Holidays
A 26-year-old California college student who comes from a broken and dysfunctional home took to Craigslist to seek a family with whom she could spend the holidays. Jackie Turner, a student at William Jessup University in Rocklin, Calif., who reportedly suffered a range of abuse as a child, wrote a heartrending ad in which she…
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