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Quote of the Day: Alain Locke on Dance
Read The Root’s coverage of Alain Locke 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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How to Get 'It' and Keep 'It' in DC
(The Root) — “D.C. can either build you up or tear you down,” says 26-year-old Keith Benjamin. “It’s just a matter of how you manage it for yourself.” Washington, D.C., is a city with a reputation across the country for Capitol Hill dysfunction and, among some of its own young professional residents, soul-killing competition and…
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2 Black Hairstyles, 2 Very Different Reactions
Michaela Angela Davis, in a piece at CNN, lays out the very distinct receptions that two African-American hairstyles — the Afro of Dante de Blasio, the son of New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio; and the dreadlocks of Tiana Parker, a little girl in Tulsa, Okla. — received in recent weeks, from the…
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What About the Pain of Mister Cee's Wife?
Nadiah Rodriguez writes at Clutch magazine that Mister Cee’s wife must be coping with a boatload of “self-doubt, paranoia and humiliation” and that her ordeal should be discussed and addressed as vehemently as her husband’s. Her pain, and even her existence, is markedly absent from the conversation about Mister Cee. The situation reminds me of…
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Women, It's OK to Rethink Whether to Get Married
In a piece for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates examines the decline in the marriage rate among black families and is not bothered it. He says that women today are determining if marriage advances “their interests as much as it once did,” and people should consider what women in the past had to endure in order…
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Chrissy Teigen's Gown Wows on Instagram
The day after their wedding, singer John Legend and model Chrissy Teigen shared a couple of breathtaking pictures from what seems to have been a beautiful ceremony. Legend shared this shot on his account of him with his groomsmen, and Teigen posted a charming picture of the loving couple. But the real winner was this…
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Man Arrested for Killing Facebook Commenter
An Oklahoma City man is in jail today, The Oklahoman reports, after being accused of murdering a man who commented on his girlfriend’s Facebook pictures. Twenty-year-old Antwion Courtez Martin has been charged with the murder of 48-year-old Edmond James Tyree. Tyree commented “damn” on a picture that Martin’s girlfriend, Sharda Perkins, shared on her Facebook…
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Larry Summers Talked Himself Out of a Job
(The Root) — How do you solve a problem like Larry Summers? (Taking a page from The Sound of Music — just pretend you’re too young to have seen this.) The economist has been the big man on campus, having served from 2001 to 2006 as Harvard University’s president, and now a top professor at…
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'12 Years a Slave' Wins People's Choice Award
As predicted by some film connoisseurs, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave received the People’s Choice Award as audience favorite at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival this past weekend, Deadline reports. The film, about a black violinist living in 1841 New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, is already being talked about…
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GOP Senator Praises Infamous Racist
(The Root) — The Republican National Committee has been working to shed the GOP’s image as a party that is not welcoming toward people of color. And for months Republican grassroots activists and local leaders have been the party’s biggest obstacles to its rebranding efforts, doing more to destroy the Grand Old Party’s image, particularly…
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