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NY Police Won't Store Names of People They Stop and Frisk
In a deal announced Wednesday, New York City will no longer store the names and addresses of people who were targets of the police department’s controversial stop-and-frisk program and whose cases have been resolved or dismissed, according to CBS. The deal signed Tuesday resulted from a May 2010 lawsuit brought in state court in Manhattan…
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Pastor Fired for Attending Rick Ross Concert
A North Carolina pastor, Rodney Wills, faced the wrath of his congregation after attending a Rick Ross concert. Ross was described by a deacon in the church as “tearing down the kingdom of God,” according to BlackAmericaWeb. Wills was also spotted nine months ago at a Lil Wayne concert. [Twenty-six-year-old] Rodney Wills was fired from…
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'Cute for a Black Girl': Should I Be Insulted?
(The Root) — “A guy contacted me on a dating site and started off with ‘I don’t normally date outside my race or my comfort zone, but you’re beautiful and caught my eye.’ I feel a certain way about that statement. I want someone who will be comfy with dating a black woman. Am I…
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Quote of the Day: Mae Jemison on Taking Chances
Read more of The Root’s coverage of Mae Jemison 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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Reform Phone Rates for Inmates' Families
(Special to The Root) — After more than 10 years of advocacy, the Federal Communications Commission is finally going to take a stand on the predatory phone rates charged to the families of prisoners. On Friday the FCC will vote on a proposal to reform these rates. The details of the order are not yet…
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Dallas Child Drowns While Woman Allegedly Checking Facebook
A Dallas toddler drowned in a pool, and police say it happened while her caretaker sat nearby reading Facebook on her phone. Three-year-old Kanyce Giddings was in the care of a family friend, 37-year-old Kariasa Thomas, on June 22 when she drowned in the pool of Thomas’ apartment complex as Kanyce’s three siblings and Thomas’…
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'Masculine of Center' Black Women as Targets
“We walk through the world, and some of us pass as male,” Oakland, Calif.’s Erica Woodland told Colorlines’ Dani McClain. “We get left out of this conversation.” “We” refers to women whose clothing and mannerisms lead people to perceive and treat them as men. That’s more than a source of confusion or an inconvenience, given…
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Black Journos Seek Meeting With New Washington Post Owner
After the sale of the Washington Post was announced on Monday, Bob Butler, the president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said he would request a meeting with the new owner, Jeffrey P. Bezos, to determine the impact on employees, especially NABJ members, according to Richard Prince’s Journal-isms. The Washington Post Co. stunned its…
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Trolls Attack Ebony Magazine on Twitter
(The Root) — Amid the praise Ebony has been getting for its moving visual tribute to Trayvon Martin, the magazine’s Twitter feed has found itself clogged with spiteful attacks from those angry about the homage. Ebony’s special September issue, which will focus on the George Zimmerman trial and its aftermath, will have four different covers:…
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Voter Discrimination That Can't Be Prevented Now
When the Supreme Court knocked down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in June, it cleared the path for egregious acts of discrimination to occur, Lauren Williams writes at Mother Jones. She cites five examples of discrimination that were previously barred by federal law. In honor of the VRA’s anniversary [August 6, 2013], here…
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