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What Would Olivia Pope Say?
(The Root) — We’ve already got a list of questions that we’re dying to have answered in the coming season of Scandal, and, well, we just can’t wait for the premiere to satiate our curiosity. I sit down with the people at the center of the all drama — Olivia, Harrison, Abby, Huck and Quinn…
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Katie Couric Tackles Racial Profiling
(The Root) — Katie Couric has spent most of her career being known for her perky disposition and ability to transition seamlessly from interviewing a celebrity about a new movie to discussing a politician’s latest campaign. She is not exactly known for being a thought leader in the never-ending national conversation on race. But on…
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Please Stop Assuming All Blacks Are Christian
(The Root) — “I’m so frustrated. Just because I’m black/African American doesn’t mean I’m Christian. I was raised in a home where we attended church, but during college I decided to officially call myself an atheist. Yet other black people are constantly assuming that I have a ‘church home’ or saying they will pray for…
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Quote of the Day: Roy Wilkins on Black-Studies Programs
Read this quote and others from Roy Wilkins here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute 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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Voter-ID Laws Stifle Registration and Voting
The New York Times Editorial Board is taking the proponents of voter-ID laws to task in a piece that delineates the judicial fights under way in North Carolina, Texas and Kansas. The board says the proposed voter-ID laws in each state “have nothing to do with stopping the nonexistent threat of voter fraud and everything…
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Marissa Alexander and How Laws Devalue Women
In Salon magazine, Brittney Cooper argues that because laws don’t do enough to protect women like Marissa Alexander from their violent husbands, women often find themselves in dangerous situations where they are forced to protect themselves. In Marissa Alexander’s case, she inadvertently encountered her husband, a man against whom she had a restraining order, when she went…
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How to Help Black Men Graduate From College
Dr. Donald E. Grant Jr., writing at Ebony, lists five ways that educational institutions can help black men graduate from college once they get there. In fact, according to a 2011 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation report, 45% of Black men over the age of 25 have attended college. Unfortunately, the rate at which these men go on…
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Time to End Racist Halloween Costumes
(The Root) — Oct. 1 marks the start of the official countdown to Halloween, and already the month is off to a frightening start, a promise of sorts of what’s all wrong about what’s to come on Oct. 31. Yesterday the ladies at popular parenting site Rookie Moms sent out an odd tweet to parents…
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5 Ways Obamacare Benefits Black Women
(The Root) — For the last few weeks, America has been told to brace itself for what is being billed as one of the biggest threats to hit the country in years: the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. A brief overview of some recent fearmongering headlines: “Obamacare Is Really, Really Bad for You,…
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Quote of the Day: Miriam Makeba on Education
Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute 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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