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Left of Black Web Series Now Appearing at The Root TV
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs isn’t the only one launching a video revolution this year. We recently launched our premiere digital-video hub, The Root TV, which features a juicy concoction of relevant news clips, provocative Web series and compelling interview segments that we produce in-house. All of the original and curated video content pushes the envelope…
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The Root Celebrates 100 Influencers and Achievers in 2013
The Root 100 celebration was held at the Tribeca Rooftop in Lower Manhattan on Nov. 14. Jazz-rock pianist ELEW provided musical entertainment.
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Top Black Influencers Celebrate With The Root
On Thursday, at New York City’s Tribeca Rooftop, The Root held its third annual The Root 100 awards gala in honor of our list of America’s most influential African Americans between the ages of 25 and 45. The yearly event is The Root’s salute to the politicians, scholars, civil rights advocates, entrepreneurs and others who make up our list of…
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Quote of the Day: Madam C.J. Walker on Direction
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 him on Twitter and Facebook. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Medicaid: Obamacare’s Untold Success Story
The untold success story in the Obamacare rollout is that the working poor are enrolling in Medicaid. Sadly, the media have largely chosen to ignore this fact. Positive statistics are crowded out by incessant Republican distracters who prefer obsessing over glitches on the Healthcare.gov website than highlighting the thousands of families already benefiting from the…
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Landmark Affirmative Action Case in Court Again
The buildup was big: First the Supreme Court eviscerated a portion of the Voting Rights Act. Then it declared that a federal ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. But when the justices ruled back in June on a case challenging an affirmative action program at the University of Texas at Austin, they sent the case,…
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Richard Cohen’s Racial ‘Groundhog Day’
Tempting as it is to join in the fray, I’m taking no part in the online beatdown that Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is suffering for his ill-advised comments about interracial relationships. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jelani Cobb and a host of other brilliant young writers have already got that covered. Besides, I’ve got my own bone…
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Tweets That Get to the Problem With Lily Allen's Video
Here’s Lily Allen’s new video, “Hard Out Here,” which has been billed as a feminist response to the Great Miley Cyrus Twerk Fiasco of 2013 and to Robin Thicke’s endlessly controversial “Blurred Lines”: You might have missed it, but the video is supposed to be satire. The dancers (scantily dressed women of color) and Allen…
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It’s Not Your Man’s Fault His Mother Dislikes You
“My Ghanaian boyfriend is upset because I left his family’s party without him knowing. The feud between his mother and me came to a head at the event. She told me I wasn’t good enough for her son because I’m African American, I don’t have an Ivy League degree, I have kinky hair, I don’t…
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Outgunned: Replacing Incarceration With Graduation
Editor’s note: Read part 1 here. Talking about the intersection of gun violence and schools instantly draws our hearts and minds to the tragic shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook and Sparks Middle School. However, in communities like Chicago and Detroit, where shootings take the lives of hundreds of people each year, the relationship between violence…
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