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Justice Beyond Race: From Gloucester Revolts to MLK's 'Dream'
Writing at USA Today, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous uses the 350th anniversary of the Gloucester County Conspiracy — a revolt organized by black slaves and European indentured servants in Virginia — to describe the “original state of race relations” before race was introduced as a tactic to separate the disenfranchised. He also connects those…
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LeBron James to Be Executive Producer of Cable Series
Miami Heat star LeBron James, in conjunction with Tom Werner, a producer for The Cosby Show and Roseanne, will executive-produce a series for the Starz cable network, according to Black Enterprise. The sitcom, tentatively titled Survivor’s Remorse, will chronicle what two friends experience when one of them becomes extremely successful, as happened to James. The series will reportedly be set…
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Top House Republicans Support Obama's Plans to Strike Syria
On Tuesday, Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor expressed their support of President Barack Obama’s call to action against Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons against rebel forces and civilians, according to the New York Times. With two leading House Republicans on board, Obama may find it…
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Race Takes Center Stage in Campaign
(The Root) — After endorsing Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent Michael Bloomberg in a previous mayoral campaign, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of the famed Harlem-based Abyssinian Baptist Church, last Friday announced his support for Democrat Bill Thompson in the race to succeed Bloomberg. But the reasons he gave for the endorsement are raising eyebrows. According to Politicker, during…
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Providing an Oasis in a Food Desert
(The Root) — Tanya Fields is a single mother of four. So in 2006, when she found an affordable apartment in New York City’s South Bronx, she moved there, only to discover the real bargain she had made. In the South Bronx, a full-service grocery store is hard to find, and obesity is common. Today…
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Daniel Maree: Leader of a Million Hoodies
(The Root) — America is experiencing a 21st-century civil rights movement, and with it comes new leaders. “There’s a reason why so many who marched that day and in the days to come were young,” President Obama said Wednesday on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. “For the young are unconstrained by habits…
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Does 'Scandal' Condone Adultery?
(The Root) — At some point during the second season of Scandal, which returns to ABC for a third season on Oct. 3, I began to notice an odd “trend.” On Thursday nights, women would inevitably catch “Kerry fever” and take to the couch (and Twitter) to cure this 60-minute ailment. Watching Olivia Pope (as…
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Quote of the Day: Barbara Smith on Racism 'Fatigue'
Read the full 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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NBA's Andre Drummond Woos Actress on Instagram
The Internet is a weird place. You have access to your favorite Hollywood and sports stars, and you can occasionally see them interact with each other. Right now all eyes are on Pistons center Andre Drummond and singer-actress Jennette McCurdy, former star of the Disney show iCarly. Theirs is a modern love story: Boy Instagrams…
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Twitter Fillets New York Times Writer
(The Root) — I know, I know. I’m just as tired of talking and hearing about twerking as you are, but some people out there just can’t leave it alone. The latest person to attempt to step into the unneeded scientific dissection of black folks via twerking is the New York Times’ Teddy Wayne. Wayne’s…
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