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Feeding the Homeless Was Better Than Faking Marital Bliss
A family’s decision to invite the homeless to attend their daughter’s canceled wedding reception is a reminder that something can always be salvaged to bless someone else, Nikki Woods writes at BlackAmericaWeb. A beautiful story of a couple who donated their daughter’s wedding reception dinner to 200 homeless people at Atlanta’s “Hosea Feed the Hungry,”…
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Quote of the Day: Jesse Jackson on Assimilation
Read how the quote is referenced 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. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Play Captures Tumult of Civil Rights Era
(The Root) — The national celebrations and commemorations surrounding the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington have, once again, marked race as a subject of exploration in popular culture. The recent critical and commercial success of Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which offered an epic cinematic depiction of the civil rights movement’s heroic period, has…
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The Racial Resentment Behind GOP's Cuts in Food Stamps
The House Republicans’ recent vote to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program is a demonstration of their animosity toward Americans of color, Brittney Cooper argues in a piece for Salon. Cooper describes how the Republican Party, beginning in the Kennedy era, intentionally manufactured the myth of a lazy African-American subgroup that does not…
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Talking Her Out of Skin Bleaching Won't Work
(The Root) — “I have a cousin who’s lived here in the United States for a few years, although, like me, she is Nigerian. (My family moved here when I was younger.) She is becoming well adjusted to American life in my opinion, with the exception of one practice from home that she still clings…
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Transgender Women and Male Desire
The recent headlines about DJ Mister Cee illustrate why we need more descriptive and inclusive language to talk about male sexuality and masculinity, Mychal Denzel Smith writes at Feministing. My hope is that, along with becoming more accepting, this pushes, not just hip-hop but the wider culture as well, to develop a more useful and…
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2013's Top Black Influencers
(The Root) — Who defined black America over the last year? Who is redefining their field, from the arts to the academy? Who are the most influential African Americans 45 and under? As we have since 2009, The Root looked back at the most significant moments in black news and culture and asked, “Who made…
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Quote of the Day: W.E.B. Du Bois on Writing About Other Cultures
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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Obama's Real Problem on Capitol Hill? Race
(The Root) — They know we can’t prove it. We can deduce and infer from their actions, statements and policies. But we can’t confirm that congressional Republicans, a bloc of nearly unbroken whiteness, and their media hatchet people are stealthily deploying race — blackness — to obstruct President Barack Obama at every turn. But obstructionists…
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Usain Bolt Crashes Wedding, Instagrams Photo
(The Root) — Usain Bolt crashed a wedding in Paris recently, but in his defense, it was a complete accident. The Olympian was walking about the city, minding his own business, when the bride and groom at a nearby wedding spotted him. The newlyweds immediately abandoned the wedding to do the sprinter’s famous pose, snapping…
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