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Twitter Helps Identify Racist Users
(The Root) — When a series of anti-Semitic tweets were posted in October 2012, France’s Union of Jewish Students appealed to Twitter for their removal. The tweets, they said, violated French legislation banning the incitement of racial hatred. The tweets were subsequently removed. The group, along with four others, then requested information identifying the individuals…
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Delta at 100: Celebration, Reflection
(The Root) — Last weekend the weather in Washington, D.C., was unpredictable. One minute the sun would be shining and the clouds kept at bay, and then suddenly that once-optimistic sky would tip over, pouring out all the rain. The same can be said of the shifting mood among the more than 50,000 members of…
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Poll: Boycott Florida Businesses and Products?
If it grows in Florida, was made in Florida or makes money in Florida, then it is eligible to be included in a list of products and businesses that some Trayvon Martin supporters will boycott as a way to protest the not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman second-degree-murder trial. More specifically, creators of the “Boycott…
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Black Teens Chase Kidnapper, Save Little Girl
In the eyes of 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas and her family, Temar Boggs is a hero. Temar and a friend rescued the little girl after she was snatched from in front of her Lancaster, Pa., home last Thursday. According to a CNN report, the two teens sprung into action once they heard that the little girl had gone missing two hours earlier. The two African-American boys took…
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Picture of MLK Wearing a Hoodie Goes Viral
Since Saturday, many images have sprung up over the Internet in support of Trayvon Martin’s family. However, there’s one image that centers on a deeper message, and it’s having a big impact on social media. According to the Huffington Post, a powerful image of Martin Luther King Jr. wearing a hoodie has gone viral. Believed…
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Quote of the Day: Gail Lumet Buckley on Family
Read the full quote 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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Zimmerman Jury Got It Right
Arguing that the state failed to prove a charge of second-degree murder against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin or that he acted recklessly beyond a reasonable doubt, the Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates says the jury got it right in his acquittal. But, he said, “the message of this episode is unfortunate.” 1.)…
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After the Verdict: Hug Your Sons
(The Root) — I am in a deep, deep well of sadness and loss. And anger, too. When my husband woke me up to tell me that George Zimmerman was found not guilty, I felt like I was still sleeping, like I was lost inside a nightmare. Ghosts swirled around me. So many children. And…
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No Sleep Until There's Justice for Trayvon
(The Root) — At 4 a.m. Sunday, when some of the nation’s major news organizations and conservative blogs remained on vigilant lookout for riots in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, a group of almost 200 people gathered in public spaces and private homes all over the country. Civil rights and social-justice activists down…
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Zimmerman Jury Tells Black Men What They Already Know
Gawker‘s Cord Jefferson, who relates a personal encounter with racial profiling by police as a college student, says George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin represents the gaps that plague our criminal-justice system. Tonight a Florida man’s acquittal for hunting and killing a black teenager who was armed with only a bag of candy…
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