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Positive Treatment of Blacks in Medieval Art?
(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.One of the chief treasures of the National Museum of the Middle Ages, or the Musée de Cluny, in Paris…
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I Don't Have Any White Friends. So What?
(The Root) — Sometime last week, a poll was released by Reuters/Ipsos that found 40 percent of white Americans had no friends of color and 25 percent of people of color had no friends of a different race. Covering a broader circle of acquaintances to include co-workers as well as friends and relatives, the poll…
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Eric Holder's War on the War on Drugs
(The Root) — The Justice Department’s plans to reduce federal incarceration rates related to the war on drugs represent a major victory for prisoners’-rights advocates and the African-American community, in which record numbers of young men have been imprisoned as casualties of America’s drug wars. In a historically significant speech before the American Bar Association…
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Quote of the Day: Jesse Jackson on Race and Politics
Read more of The Root’s coverage of the Rev. Jesse Jackson 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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MSNBC Declares: 'Whitey Found Guilty'
(The Root) — A screenshot taken during Touré’s MSNBC show The Cycle, bearing the official announcement “Whitey found guilty,” has been floating around the Internet. Condemned for years in the public eye by citizens, activists and entertainers, Whitey was convicted today of first-degree hoodwinking and bamboozling. The fruits of our ancestors’ labor have finally paid…
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Tumblr 'Joke' Lands Student in Hot Water
A 20-year-old college student may face prison time for “making terroristic threats” and hefty fines after posting “an experimental literary piece and an art project” on his Tumblr page. Caleb Clemmons, a psychology major at Georgia Southern University, was arrested within hours of publishing an entry on his blog that read “i plan on shooting…
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Stop and Frisk Violated Rights, Judge Rules
(The Root) — In a pair of rulings announced Monday morning, a federal judge found that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics violated the constitutional rights of the city’s minorities and must be dramatically overhauled and aggressively monitored. In the decision, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that police officers have for years systematically…
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Eric Holder Tackling Harsh Prison Sentences
The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Monday that nonviolent drug offenders who are unaffiliated with gangs and large drug rings will not face charges that can result in harsh prison sentences. He acknowledges that the new policy is important because American prisons are overcrowded. Part of the overcrowding can be…
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Stop-and-Frisk Ruling: Lines That We Want on T-Shirts
(The Root) — In a decision today, a federal court deemed the New York City Police Department’s use of its stop-and-frisk tactic “indirect racial profiling” that allowed police officers to unfairly target blacks and Hispanics far more than whites. More to the point: U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said it was unconstitutional, accused city officials of…
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B. Scott Discusses BET Lawsuit
Media personality B. Scott, along with his attorney, Waukeen McCoy, appeared on Monday’s MSNBC Live to discuss his discrimination lawsuit against BET and its parent company, Viacom, with host Thomas Roberts. It was the first time he has spoken publicly about the lawsuit since filing last week. The claim comes after he was ordered to…
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