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In NYC Mayoral Primary, Bill de Blasio Leads
Bill de Blasio is the early front-runner, garnering nearly 40 percent of the vote in the New York Democratic primary mayoral race, reports NY1. De Blasio, who is currently the city’s public advocate, made waves in the last few weeks, not only with his liberal take on issues like ending stop and frisk but also with…
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Article on Street Harassment Angers Twitter
(The Root) — A very well-meaning article was posted on xoJane.com about how women should react when a hopeful suitor gives them unwanted attention on the street. For many women the quickest, most effective way to get out an uncomfortable situation is to say that they’re already in a relationship, whether they are or not.…
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How I Used to Want Blond Hair
Ramou Sarr went through a long process of ridding herself of thoughts that she was ugly and inferior as an African-American girl, especially growing up in predominantly white environments. At Black Girls Talking, Sarr describes how she once yearned for blond hair. The ways in which my self-hatred manifested itself slowly changed, however. It became…
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Obama Should Fight for Jobs as He Fights for Syria
If the Obama administration applied the same energy toward policies to reduce poverty and create jobs that it has toward making a case for military intervention in Syria, we might see an uptick in the economy, Jamal Simmons argues at U.S. News & World Report. Americans are still in distress and the president should marshal…
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Gucci Mane's Bizarre Twitter Rant
(The Root) — It’s being reported that Gucci Mane has been dropped from Atlantic Records after a Twitter rant attacking several other rappers. He fired off a series of barely readable tweets that ticked off quite a few people in the rap world and provided a solid hour of entertainment for the rest of us.…
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New NAACP President Should Be a Woman
The NAACP needs a new president in January, and in Salon, Brittney Cooper says the civil rights group’s next leader should be a woman. The vacancy gives the organization a chance to send a message about the significance of women to its mission. Though African-American culture is still enamored with charismatic race men, the NAACP…
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Zimmerman's Lawyer: Don't Ask Me About Domestic Incident
On Tuesday Mark O’Mara, the lead defense attorney in the George Zimmerman second-degree-murder trial, told CNN that he would not be representing Zimmerman in any legal proceedings involving estranged wife Shellie Zimmerman, who filed for divorce last week. “I am not representing George Zimmerman in his recent domestic altercation case or his impending divorce case,”…
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Quote of the Day: H. Rap Brown on Racism
Read more about H. Rap Brown 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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Using Humor in the Dialogue on Race
(The Root) — “W. Kamau Bell is one of America’s few leftist black male feminists from San Francisco with his own television talk show, and for that alone he should be treasured,” Salon wrote last year. He’s also a straight, married young dad who’s an outspoken proponent of marriage equality and gay rights. Welcome to…
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Natural Hair and Black-on-Black Shame
(The Root) — You know how sometimes you just know something, even when you have no proof? Call it a “feeling” in my gut or the past being a predictor of the future. But whatever it was, when I heard about 7-year-old Tiana Parker, who was being harassed by her school because of her locks,…
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