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Quote of the Day: Al Sharpton on Double Standards
Read more quotes from the Rev. Al Sharpton 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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The Black-Senator Club Booker Wants to Join
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s Senate race on Tuesday, putting him on a path to become a U.S. senator if he wins an Oct. 16 special election against Republican Steve Lonegan. If he’s chosen to complete the remaining 15 months of the term of the late Sen. Frank…
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Share Your March on Washington Photos
(The Root) — It was 50 years ago when the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The landmark event went down in history for Martin Luther King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, not to mention its legislative legacy. It’s credited with provisions of the Civil…
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Jesse Jackson Jr. to Serve Prison Time Before Wife
On Wednesday a federal judge sentenced former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to 30 months in prison for misusing $750,000 in campaign funds, the Chicago Tribune reports. His wife, Sandi, received a sentence of one year after pleading guilty to falsifying tax returns. The Jacksons will be allowed to serve their sentences one at a time,…
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The Root's Guide to March on Washington Celebrations
(The Root) — On Aug. 28, 1963, there weren’t any youth organizations that had the resources to host events and sessions in tandem with what would become the iconic March on Washington. Nor was there a “Women of the Movement” symposium or a “Global Freedom Festival” designed to bring awareness to international issues in the…
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1963 vs. 2013: Marching on Washington
It was 50 years ago when the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and events around the country will commemorate the march this August. Even President Obama is in on the action. He’s slated to deliver remarks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at…
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Delivering the Church From Homophobia
After listening to a pastor’s remarks, the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart tries to dispel the seemingly unshakable belief among some religious leaders that “homosexuality is a sin and a choice.” He explains, rather, that it is a “God-given trait as immutable” as his skin color. I took a stand against religion-based anti-gay bigotry while sitting…
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Why Interracial Friendships Are a Struggle
Responding to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll that found that 40 percent of white people and 25 percent of nonwhites have no friends of another race, Brittney Cooper writes at Salon that it cuts both ways. “All of my close friends are black,” she says, explaining that maintaining white friendships is too much of a struggle.…
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After Primary Win, Cory Booker Focused on October
Cory A. Booker, the charismatic and popular mayor of Newark, N.J., won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote, besting his closest challenger, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., the New York Times reports. Booker is favored to win the general election in October in the heavily Democratic state, which…
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Remembering a Truly American Moment
(The Root) — In the opening line of his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom would “go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history…
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