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Black Priests of the Isis Cult
(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. After being hidden from view for nearly two millennia, this engaging view of an exotic religious rite was unearthed…
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Jakiyah McKoy and the Racism Toward Afro-Latinos
Dash Harris, writing at For Harriet, describes her surprise that the media have taken an interest in the story of Jakiyah McCoy, a 7-year-old Afro-Latina beauty-pageant winner who had her title revoked because pageant officials wanted her to prove that she was Latino. Since when has mainstream media ever cared about Latinos of African descent…
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GOP Scared That Americans Will Like Obamacare
In a piece at Vanity Fair, Kurt Eichenwald says the Republican Party’s attempts to postpone the Affordable Care Act have a lot to do with the fear that Americans will soon realize that the health care package is not the “government takeover of health care” that the GOP has drummed it up to be. So, what…
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Halloween Tweet Riles Up Black Twitter
(The Root) — Dear @RookieMoms, big mistake. Big! Huge! On Monday the popular parenting blog Rookie Moms tweeted, “Do you have a chubby, bald, dark-skinned baby? I have some Halloween ideas for you! DM me if I don’t sound nuts.” Black Twitter responded quickly and mercilessly, taking Rookie Moms to task for the racist implications…
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Secrets of a Successful Business Career
(The Root) — In late August it was revealed that Merrill Lynch, one of the nation’s oldest financial institutions, would settle a class action lawsuit brought by African-American employees alleging discrimination. By settling, the firm became one of the few major players on Wall Street to acknowledge something that has been whispered about for years…
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Shut It Down: It's a Win for Obama and Cruz
(The Root) — With each passing “crisis” in the zero-sum game of congressional politics, we’ve gotten used to sorting out the winners and losers of every battle. But as September’s round of Washington’s annual budget fight tightens up — and a government shutdown looms for Tuesday — what we have, so far, is a win-win:…
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'The First White Man in Chicago Was a Negro'?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the…
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Quote of the Day: Thurgood Marshall on Equality
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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Why White Separatism Is on the Rise
In the face of growing diversity in America, the National Policy Institute is working to create an intellectual class of white separatists, Lauren M. Fox writes in an illuminating piece at Salon. Richard Spencer sat sipping his chai latte at the Red Caboose, a train-themed coffee shop in downtown Whitefish, Mont. Clean-cut and restrained, he…
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Police Profile 2 Hollywood Actors
Krystol Diggs, in a blog post at CNN iReport, describes the harrowing police profiling that two Hollywood actors, Cherie Johnson and Dennis White, had to endure. “I hope that this article will show that we as people should be united as one and not divided,” Diggs writes. Being violated is something that many haven’t had a…
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