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Cory Booker's Fight to End Homophobia
(The Root) — Making good on a promise, Sen.-elect Cory Booker began officiating the marriages of same-sex couples in New Jersey just after midnight this morning — as they first became legally possible, thanks to a court ruling. Later this morning, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that although he continues to oppose same-sex marriage,…
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Black Men's Problem With 'Scandal': Interracial Dating
Jamilah Lemieux at Ebony magazine has a hunch that some black men’s resentments about interracial dating lie at the crux of their opinions of Scandal and the black women who adore the show. That’s the real reason they didn’t lose any sleep over Kerry Washington’s Emmy loss. Let’s go back to last month, when Kerry…
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Notorious B.I.G. No Worse Than Columbus
(The Root) — Two generations of Americans might recall, as vividly as yesterday, the waking radio chatter and day-breaking TV news reports of March 9, 1997, the morning the Notorious B.I.G. was shot and killed in Los Angeles. Surely Brooklyn, N.Y., remembers. Sixteen years after his death, Christopher Wallace occupies a larger-than-life prominence in the…
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'A Nation Within a Nation'
We’re taking a break from the weekly 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro series to bring you an exclusive excerpt from the introduction to The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a companion book to the upcoming six-part PBS series of the same title. “The most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human…
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Quote of the Day: George Alexander McGuire on Christianity
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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Philadelphia Cop Video Shows Problems With Stop and Frisk
At the Nation, Mychal Denzel Smith says that a viral video of white Philadelphia police officers harassing black pedestrians highlights the inherent problems in stop and frisk and underscores a larger problem in America — racism. This video was recorded on September 27 and uploaded to YouTube a few days later. It has recently made…
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Tea Party: Obamacare Was Never Approved
The Daily Beast‘s Jamelle Bouie examines the Tea Party’s plans for its next battle against President Obama in the aftermath of its devastating shutdown defeat. Members are now charging that Americans never approved the Affordable Care Act, he says. This was supposed to be Jim DeMint’s moment. As head of the Heritage Foundation, chief sponsor…
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Why Marvin Winans' Refusal to Bless Baby Reflects Poor Theology
Pastor Marvin Winans missed an opportunity to begin “training a child up” when he recently refused to bless the son of an unwed mother, writes Washington Post columnist Rahiel Tesfamariam. Prominent pastor Marvin Winans of Perfecting Church in Detroit joins a growing list of preachers who have recently made headlines for taking theological positions that…
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'12 Years a Slave' Opens Strong at the Box Office
Fox Searchlight’s 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejifor, triumphed this weekend at the box office during its limited opening in 19 theaters, grossing $960,000, Deadline Hollywood reports. Searchlight said Sunday that the film, produced by New Regency, reached an “incredibly diverse audience,” adding, “We have been attracting both…
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Pastor Marvin Winans: Wrong to Not Bless Son of Unwed Mom?
A young Detroit mother was heartbroken recently when her request was denied to have her 2-year-old son blessed by famed gospel singer and pastor Marvin Winans during a special ceremony. Why? Well, it seems that Winans, pastor of the Perfecting Church in Detroit, has a strict policy of not blessing the babies of unwed mothers…
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