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911 Call Released in Fatal NC Cop Shooting of Unarmed Black Man
A search for help after a car wreck early Saturday morning in North Carolina turned into a fatal journey for Jonathan Ferrell, a former Florida A&M University football player. At about 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, he banged on the front door of Sarah McCartney, who was alone with her 1-year-old son, MSNBC reports. She rushed…
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Most Children of Color Live in Poverty
America’s children continued to be hardest hit by poverty in 2012, according to new Census Bureau statistics, the Washington Post reports. An estimated 21.8 percent of American children under the age of 18 lived in poverty in 2012, according to Census Bureau statistics (pdf) released Tuesday, the Post reports. That percentage, the same as in…
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Rare Gunmen: Black Mass Shooters
It’s a misconception that African Americans do not commit mass killings like the Navy yard shooting in Washington, D.C. While the number of black mass shooters is low, they do exist. Here’s a list of seven black mass shooters. Ferguson opened fire on a crowded Long Island Rail Road train in 1993, killing six people…
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What Rushing a White Sorority Taught Me
(The Root) — I had just gotten in from cheerleading practice when I got the call. On the other end, a chipper girl I’d met for the first time the night before gave me the good news: The sisters of Delta Gamma wanted me to be one of them. I’d made it past the first…
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Can a Racist Grandpa Raise a Biracial Kid?
( The Root ) — “My dad has recently become much more conservative. He now says things like, Obama isn’t American, he is a Muslim, he hates whites, he might be the anti-Christ, he is unfit as president, he is a buffoon, etc. Outside of Obama, he complains about how welfare is being taken advantage of by…
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Quote of the Day: John Hope Franklin on the Declaration of Independence
Read The Root’s coverage of John Hope Franklin 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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10 Dumb Tweets About the Navy Yard Shooting
(The Root) — Twitter has been on fire with discussions about the shooting at the Washington, D.C., Navy yard since news of the incident broke yesterday. Conversations about tragic incidents are never easy. Many of the discussions center on the feelings of grief, hopelessness and concern that spring up with any random act of violence,…
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Adoption of Black Children by Overseas Families on the Rise
The number of African-American children adopted by foreign parents who live outside the United States is steadily rising, according to a CNN report. For some birth mothers, part of the appeal is that their child will get the opportunity to grow up in an exotic overseas location. And for others, there is the perception that…
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The Lone Gunman of Navy Yard Shooting
UPDATED Tuesday, Sept. 17, 10:17 a.m. EDT: According to the New York Times, Aaron Alexis, a black 34-year-old former Navy reservist, was the lone gunman who killed at least 12 people in a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday. Law-enforcement officials are trying to piece together what motivated Alexis, now dead. Navy…
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Nubian Women in Ancient Egypt
(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. A young black woman stands in a delicately swaying posture, holding a large lidded…
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