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50 Years After the March: Has Blacks' Income Inequality Improved?
Fifty years after the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Dedrick Muhammad, senior economic director of the NAACP, explores discrepancies in wages and income between African Americans and whites. In a piece for the Huffington Post, he says not much has changed. … There has been far less progress in bridging racial income…
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Stars Pay Tribute to Whitney Houston
(The Root) — I remember exactly where I was when I heard about Whitney Houston’s passing. I’d just hopped into a too-full car of my friends, headed out to dinner. “Are you mourning?” one asked. I asked what she was talking about. “Whitney!” I spent the car ride suspended in disbelief, but when I noticed…
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Remembering a 'Real World' Trailblazer
(The Root) — Now that we live in an age in which the president of the United States has referenced gay Americans in his inaugural address and publicly supports same-sex marriage, it’s hard to remember a time when coming out as gay was career-ending. And at a time when Magic Johnson is thought of first…
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Did My White Ancestor Become Black?
(The Root) — “My father’s grandfather, Will D. Carter, born in 1875 in Fayette County, Ky., is listed as being white in the 1880 census. The family is listed as white, too. But by the time the 1910 census rolled around, he was listed as black. My father remembers a picture of him that used…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Explore 5 Centuries of Black History
One way to bring about structural change in America after a tragedy like the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is through schools and their curricula, according to The Root’s editor-in-chief, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. He hopes to do just that with The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a six-hour PBS documentary…
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Blacks Backing Weiner and Spitzer?
(The Root) — By any measure, Anthony Weiner has had a disastrous few weeks as a candidate. There was the emergence of a new round of allegations regarding his sexting habits, followed by an awkward admission at an awkward press conference with his wife, followed by a seemingly endless media tour by Sidney Leathers, his…
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Florida Man Posts Photo of Wife's Dead Body on Facebook
A 31-year-old South Florida man, Derek Medina, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Thursday after his wife was fatally shot in the couple’s home, the Associated Press reports. Before his arrest, police say, he left a chilling photo and confession on Facebook. “Im going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife…
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Cop Won't Be Reindicted in Shooting of Unarmed Teen
A New York City police officer, Richard Haste, involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham last year in the Bronx will not be reindicted by a grand jury, NBC 4 reports. The decision rankled Graham’s family, which led to a demonstration on Thursday of about 100 people, including mayoral candidate William Thompson…
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Profiling the President
(The Root) — Anti-Obama demonstrators in Arizona taunted the president of the United States with racial slurs in Arizona this past Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of the historic Voting Rights Act. The sight of hundreds of protesters proudly raising hate-filled signs echoed anti-civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s, but with an ironic twist. Obama traveled…
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