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Rick Wade Weighs Historic South Carolina Senate Run
Rick Wade, a former senior adviser in the Obama administration and deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Commerce Department, is considering a run against GOP South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Warren Bolton writes in The State. If Wade, who now heads a fledgling global-business-development firm, decides to step into the race, it would create…
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Alabama GOP Senator: Ban 'The Bluest Eye'
Calling Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye “completely objectionable, from language to the content,” Republican Sen. Bill Holtzclaw of Alabama said it should be banned from schools, according to The Atlantic. Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s…
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$5M Lottery Winner Will Get Jackpot After Scam
Justice has finally prevailed for Robert Miles of Syracuse, N.Y. Seven years after being duped out of a winning $5 million scratch-off ticket, he will receive his winnings within the next couple of weeks, the Associated Press reports. The maintenance worker, who bought the ticket in October 2006, tried to claim his winnings at the…
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Miley, JT and the Politics of Appropriation
(The Root) — For as long as Africans in America have been producing music for the recording industry, there’s remained a tension between black performance styles and the mainstream society that benefits. This hasn’t always been a bad thing. There are times when the use of black style and form has moved pop culture to…
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Record Number of Black Quarterbacks
(The Root) — Once praised only for their athleticism and running ability, black NFL quarterbacks today are bucking a system that has stereotyped them since the beginning of the National Football League. The new crop of black NFL quarterbacks are eager to show everyone that they can torch opponents with their feet but just as…
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Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr. on Social Mobility
Read the entire “I Have a Dream” speech 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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Tamron Hall Talks Crime and Loss
(The Root) — Tamron Hall is already considered one of the best-dressed women in the news biz, according to Vanity Fair magazine, and now she is officially one of the busiest. Already an anchor for MSNBC’s NewsNation With Tamron Hall, she is also a regular substitute anchor for NBC’s Today show. As if two jobs…
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Fast-Food Workers Strike: Twitter Debates
(The Root) — The issue of a living wage has been on quite a few minds, and lips, recently, what with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which Martin Luther King Jr. led the call for fair treatment and employment. On Thursday, just ahead of the Labor Day…
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Katrina: Reflections 8 Years Later
(The Root) — Do you remember where you were when the news of Hurricane Katrina found you? The images of the storm are burned into our minds: hoards of people yelling into news cameras for help, citizens paddling through the streets in boats in search of survivors. Those of us outside the affected areas sat…
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A Eulogy for MLK's Dream
At the New Yorker, Jelani Cobb delivers trenchant criticism of President Barack Obama’s leadership. Responding to his remarks on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Cobb asks, “Has a black presidency moved us closer to the ideal of King’s dream, or reflected its exhaustion as a real possibility?” Four years have passed [since…
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