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Is Grambling State's Administration to Blame?
Mark F. Gray writes in a piece at the Shadow League that heads should roll at the Louisiana university’s highest levels because of failures that culminated in Saturday’s forfeited football game against Jackson State. Traditionally, Grambling has been to HBCU football what Notre Dame is to major college football. They were nationally prominent and a…
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Watch This Preschooler Freestyle Her Dance Routine
If you want to see what’s hot on black Twitter, check out The Chatterati.Akoto Ofori-Atta is the editor of The Grapevine. Like her Facebook page and follow her on Twitter.
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Is the Tea Party Like the KKK?
(The Root) —In recent years when the words “racial controversy” or “race scandal” and “politics” have appeared in the same sentence, the word “Republican” has usually appeared somewhere in the sentence, too. But this week a racially charged scandal has erupted involving Democrats. High-profile Republicans are demanding an apology from Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)…
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3 Black Women Make Fortune's Top 50
(The Root) — Fortune magazine has released its annual 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list, and the good news is that three dynamic African Americans are included in the roundup. Ursula Burns, CEO and president of Xerox; Rosalind Brewer, CEO and president of Sam’s Club; and Shonda Rhimes, creator of hit shows Scandal and…
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Time to Pay the Price for Slavery
(The Root) — The film 12 Years a Slave is a virtuosic and unrelenting depiction of pre-Civil War American slavery as seen through the eyes of a free black man lured into human trafficking at best, and damnation at the very least. To some, it’s one superlative art form — Solomon Northup’s literary masterpiece of…
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Separate Bedrooms at Mom's: A Black Thing?
(The Root) — “My girlfriend and I are planning to visit my mother. She’s upset because my mother has told us we’ll have to sleep in separate rooms, since we are not married. My girlfriend says I let my mother push me around too much, but my mother has always had these rules. My girlfriend…
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Quote of the Day: Miles Davis on Creativity
Read the quote in its full context 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 I Learned From 'Many Rivers to Cross'
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross provides a rare and provocative view of American colonists as the architects of slavery and racism, Jamelle Bouie writes at the Daily Beast. It also takes a hard look at Africans who sold other Africans into slavery. Even if you accept that race is a social construct, separated…
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You Should Probably Buy Ja Rule's Cookbook
Ha. Every thug needs his gravy. Clever. If you want to see what’s hot on black Twitter, check out The Chatterati.Akoto Ofori-Atta is the editor of The Grapevine. Like her Facebook page and follow her on Twitter.
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Time to Consider an Alternative to Obamacare
Renowned neurosurgeon and Obama critic Ben S. Carson writes at the Washington Times that it’s time to consider alternatives to the Affordable Care Act, just in case it fails. He explains what one option — patient-controlled health savings accounts — would entail. Rather than complain about Obamacare, it might be useful to begin to discuss…
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