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Vogue Thailand Explains Naomi Campbell's Lighter Skin
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Before Sen. Booker, There Was Sen. Brooke
(The Root) — As Cory Booker takes his place in the United States Senate today, history suggests that it is not too early for him to start planning his re-election campaign. Yes, this is partly because his term expires in January 2015. But it’s also because only one African American has ever won re-election to…
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Miley Cyrus Manages Not to Mess Up on Halloween
(The Root) — As our Grapevine alumna Tracy Clayton pointed out last week, there are plenty of ways to dress as a person of color on Halloween and not be racist about it. Example: This dude’s amazing turn as King Jaffe Joffer from Coming to America. And despite the incredible amount of willpower and decency…
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Quote of the Day: Mari Evans on Blackness
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.
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Obamacare: A Careless and Clumsy Launch
(The Root) — It turns out that over the past four years, all those times President Barack Obama told Americans that “if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it,” it wasn’t quite as simple as it sounded. In politics, after all, if you can fit a proposal on a bumper sticker, there’s a…
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Survival First When Facing Street Harasser
(The Root) — “When a guy asks for your number on the street and you say, ‘I have a man,’ and he says, ‘Your man doesn’t let you have friends?’ How do you put an end to this convo? Apparently I’m answering wrong, because when I do it opens up dialogue, which results in me…
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'Best Man' Fans Wait 14 Years for Sequel
(The Root) — “You know, people really know me from The Best Man. I’ve done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to The Best Man. It was time to do the sequel.” –Malcolm D. Lee, director, The Best Man Holiday The year is 1999, and a consistent stream of films directed…
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Stop Hating on Poor Blacks Who Buy Expensive Stuff
In the aftermath of allegations of racial profiling at Barneys and Macy’s, Tressie McMillan Cottom checks in on criticism of the shoppers, who some say shouldn’t have been spending beyond their means in the first place. “Poor people make stupid, illogical decisions to buy status symbols,” she writes at her blog, Tressiemc, “for the same…
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Sen. Cory Booker Takes Office
(The Root) — Thursday will be a whirlwind day for the new senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. His public swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., will be conducted by Vice President Joe Biden, and later in the afternoon he’ll visit with President Barack Obama at the White House. Booker will be one…
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