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Preacher Makes Outrageous Obama Claim
What will the president’s opponents think of next? Controversial birther preacher the Rev. James David Manning is peddling a new and wild conspiracy theory, claiming that President Barack Obama fathered a child with the woman who this fall was fatally shot outside the White House. Manning, pastor of Atlah World Missionary Church, asserts that the…
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Brooklyn Residents Rally Against ‘Knockout Game’
Residents and leaders of parts of New York City’s Brooklyn community on Friday held a rally to denounce the so-called “knockout game,” a violent trend in which youths punch unwary victims as they walk down the street, CBS New York reports. “We are stressed out, but we refuse to be knocked out in our community,”…
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Sasha May Determine Where the Obamas Live After the White House
If Sasha Obama suffers from “youngest child syndrome,” it will likely be dampened in 2016 when the first family turns to her for an important decision. President Barack Obama said she would be one of the deciding factors in where the family lands after leaving the White House. At that time, she will be a…
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Former KKK Leader and His Mother Indicted in Alabama
An Alabama man who once served as the Grand Cyclops for the Ku Klux Klan, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of burning a cross at the entrance to an African-American neighborhood, the Raw Story reports. Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, was indicted Wednesday on five counts, including obstruction of justice, in the…
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Quote of the Day: Bayard Rustin on Fear
Read the quote and more about Bayard Rustin 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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What Drives You: Achievers Share Secrets of Success
Harlem’s Schomburg Center Director Khalil Muhammad, online innovator Rachel Brooks and NAACP activist Jotaka Eaddy exemplify the qualities of influence and achievement that characterize the 2013 Root 100 honorees. In their own words, they each describe the events and the role models who have inspired them. Watch: Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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How to Be Black on Black Friday
Black Friday’s gotten a pretty bad rap. Whether it’s “the High Holy Day for the state religion of overconsumption,” as one commenter wrote on the New York Times’ website, or just the starting line of the holiday rat race, the “black” in Black Friday is more ominous than awe-inspiring. So why not take it back?…
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Lost Slave Ancestors Found
“Our last name is odd. We get it from my mother’s father, Herbert Mungin, who was born in 1924, somewhere in the American South—South Carolina, we think. I know that last names were picked up in various ways in the late 1800s, but I’ve actually never met a white person who shares this last name.…
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Quote of the Day: Billie Holiday on Fighting
Read the full quote and other quotes from Billie Holiday 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. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us…
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Rapper Jasiri X on How He ‘Gets Free’
Emcee and activist Jasiri X sits down to talk with Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal about current events and how he’s using social media and 1Hood Media to spread his message.
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