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First Black Italian Minister Compared to an Orangutan
As Italy’s first black minister, Cecile Kyenge has had to put up with an avalanche of racist remarks from her fellow ministers since assuming the position in April. The latest came from Sen. Roberto Calderoli, a member of the anti-immigration Northern League Party. During a speech to supporters, he compared Kyenge to an orangutan, reports…
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Zimmerman Juror B37 Presses for New Laws
Following a vociferous backlash in response to her interview earlier this week with Anderson Cooper on CNN, alongside news of a possible book deal, now apparently quashed, the woman known as juror B37 on Wednesday released a statement pushing for new laws that she says would have helped avoid George Zimmerman’s not-guilty verdict, CNN reports. “My…
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Black Twitter Gives Buzzfeed Hilarious Article Ideas
(The Root) — Buzzfeed has been bringing quite a bit of color into its ranks lately, with folks such as Saeed Jones and Shani O. Hilton writing pieces like this one on the power of black Twitter. Twitter took notice of all the brown brilliance joining the crew when it was announced on Wednesday that…
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Twitter Relieves Some Stress With 'Catfish'
(The Root) — For weeks, tensions over the George Zimmerman trial have run high and hot on Twitter, with users focusing extensively on the proceedings. indeed, the trial engulfed the whole of black Twitter: The No. 1 trending topic at The Chatterati has been something related to the trial since the verdict was handed down…
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Deval Patrick Not Running for President in 2016
Speaking in fairly definitive terms, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Tuesday that he will not run for president in 2016, and he also suggested that he had no plans to become the next attorney general, the Washington Post reports. “I am not running for president in 2016,” Patrick told reporters at UMass Boston, according…
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Hillary Clinton: Verdict Brought 'Deep Heartache'
While speaking to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Tuesday evening in Washington, D.C., former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the “heartache” of the Trayvon Martin case, Politico reports. “My prayers are with the Martin family and with every family who loves someone who is lost to violence,” she said in an almost 30-minute…
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Will Reform Help Black Immigrants?
(The Root) — Lowell Hawthorne’s immigrant tale isn’t exactly a secret. In 2003 Black Enterprise magazine named Hawthorne’s Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill Inc. one of the top 100 black-owned companies in the United States. And when Hawthorne, Golden Krust’s CEO, published a book late last year about his journey from new American to…
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White and Black Kids: Different Trayvon Talks
(The Root) — “I am remarried and now have a blended family with two teenage sons. One is black (10 years old) and one white (12 years old). In light of Trayvon Martin’s death and the miscarriage of justice that surrounded it, what do I tell them? How much can children absorb at these ages…
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Still Not at Home in America
(The Root) — No one is more American than I am. Our country’s history is inscribed on my genes. Some of my ancestors came here on slave ships. One arrived on The Mayflower. Others fought in the Revolution and the great Civil War. But because I am 67 — old enough to have personally experienced…
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Quote of the Day: Billie Holiday on Drugs
Read more of The Root’s Billie Holiday coverage 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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