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Memorializing Black Civil War Heroes
(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. Situated on Boston’s Beacon Hill opposite the State House, the Shaw Memorial evokes a moving combination of intimacy of…
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Quote of the Day: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Goodness
Read more of The Root’s coverage of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 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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'Family Matters': Where Are They Now?
Carl Otis Winslow, the head of the Winslow household, was often the victim of pesky neighbor Steve Urkel’s nerdy inventions. He even had to adopt a mantra for when he felt Steve was raising his blood pressure. VelJohnson has appeared in several TV series over the past few years, including Hart of Dixie, in which…
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How North Carolina Became Red Again
(The Root) — One might shrug off the sweeping voting restrictions (pdf) approved last week in North Carolina as typical of a Southern state under Republican control. But look again: Unlike many of its neighbors, the Tar Heel State had been well down the path of progressivism for several years before the GOP shut it…
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Can an Open Marriage Work?
In our society, marriage equals monogamy, but Danielle T. Pointdujour says in a piece for Ebony that she wants to buck the trend and have an open marriage. However, she’s concerned that her marriage will be on the rocks if her husband doesn’t want to take the plunge. Most women I know are the selfish,…
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Mr. T's Twitter Account Is Awesome
(The Root) — Are you experiencing an influx of fools in your timeline sorely in need of pity? Never fear! Mr. T. is on Twitter, and his tweets are completely awesome. They’re so good, in fact, that at first glance it seems like a parody account. But it’s real — he’s verified — and he…
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Twitter Tears Into Don Lemon
(The Root) — If misery loves company, it’s having one heck of a tea party with Don Lemon this week. His victim blaming and respectability policing on the heels of the devastating George Zimmerman ruling have made headlines and rubbed many the wrong way. Twitter has been karate-chopping his argument for the last couple of…
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The Pundits Have It Wrong
In the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, pundits have talked ad nauseam about black-on-black crime and what’s behind it. But in a piece for the Huffington Post, Jason Whitlock says they aren’t hitting the mark. Hopelessness is at the root of it all. Televised simple-mindedness is not beholden to any particular race, political bent…
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Music and Our Not-So-Lost Generation
Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.
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Pro-Trayvon Group to Convene the 'People's Session'
The Dream Defenders, a group of young activists and professionals in Florida, will convene a “People’s Session” in front of Gov. Rick Scott’s office on Tuesday, July 30, in support of “Trayvon’s Law” — proposed legislation that confronts a trifecta of issues that are believed to have led to the death of Trayvon Martin and…
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