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Racist Sites Deleted: Ghetto Tracker and Good Part of Town
Under pressure from online critics, a 30-year-old Tallahassee, Fla., man deleted GhettoTracker.com, his crowd-sourcing experiment “in travel guide segregation,” Gawker reports. Users who navigate to the site receive the following message: “This site is gone. It’s not worth the trouble.” In an effort to save face after the GhettoTracker uproar, the creator put up Good Part…
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Can't Meet the Parents Because I'm Black?
(The Root) — “I’ve been dating this guy for five months now. He is very nice, but I have never met his parents. It seems that there is always an excuse why we can’t see them. I guess I’m being paranoid, but I’m not sure he wants his folks to meet me, since I’m a…
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When Jack Johnson Met the Black Russian
(Special to The Root) — This is an excerpt from Vladimir Alexandrov’s recent book The Black Russian, which tells the true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves in Mississippi who became a millionaire entrepreneur in czarist Moscow and the “Sultan of Jazz” in Constantinople. (For more on Thomas’ incredible story, check…
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Quote of the Day: Betty Carter on Jazz Music
Read more of the quote 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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Eddie Murphy Joins Twitter and Announces New Album
First Prince, now Eddie Murphy. It seems that the greats are slowly joining the ranks of Twitter. Murphy became a member on Wednesday and with one tweet promoted his latest single with Snoop Lion. According to his Twitter bio, he also has a studio album coming out, entitled 9. It won’t be Muphy’s first foray…
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Watch This: Tyler Perry Blesses Bishop TD Jakes
The Huffington Post is reporting that one of the highlights of Bishop T.D. Jakes’ MegaFest last weekend in Dallas came when Tyler Perry attended Sunday service at the Potter’s House, Jakes’ church. During the service, Perry announced a $1 million donation toward Jakes’ developing youth center. Perry then gave an inspiring speech, placed a hand…
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Facilitator Named to Reform NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy
Federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin on Wednesday named a community facilitator to aid a court-appointed monitor in modifying the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, the Daily News reports. The community facilitator, Nicholas Turner, president of the Vera Institute of Justice, will help police monitor Peter Zimroth develop reforms to the policy, which…
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Twitter Roasts Don Lemon's New Haircut
(The Root) — We’re not quite sure what Don Lemon was expecting when he tweeted a picture of his new haircut, but it’s safe to assume that eight-plus hours of jokes wasn’t what he had in mind. Lemon tweeted the above picture of himself with the makings of a high-top fade, one of the blackest,…
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Essence 2.0: Can the Magazine Find Its Digital Voice?
Britt Julious, writing at WBEZ91.5, explains her own disconnect with Essence magazine and how she thinks it could appeal to a younger audience: by bringing its brand of storytelling online. When I think of the appeal of print, I think of packaged storytelling. The value in this form is the tangibleness of the magazine itself.…
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The GOP's Assault on Public Education
Arguing at Salon that public education has always been a pathway to the middle class for people of color, Brittney Cooper chides Republican lawmakers for creating barriers to success for minorities by defunding urban school systems at every level across the nation. “Unfortunately, the increasing national disdain for all things ‘public’ is increasingly becoming a…
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