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    Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.

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  • South Florida Preps for Zimmerman Verdict

    Police in South Florida have partnered with local pastors in case violence erupts after a verdict is rendered in George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial in the shooting death of the unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, according to CBS Miami. From the pulpit of the Peaceful Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Miami-Dade Police Director JD Patterson preached peace Thursday…

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  • Social Media 'Blacks Out' for Trayvon

    (The Root) — As the George Zimmerman trial comes to a close, people on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are replacing their profile pictures with black boxes to show solidarity for Trayvon Martin and his family. It’s something that people on social media often do, and it has sparked a debate over the point of such…

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  • Is Family Legend About a Slave Ship True?

    “My maternal family comes from the Georgia Lowcountry — Savannah and a few of the surrounding Gullah islands. The family story that has been passed down to me is that some of our ancestors came in on a contraband ship, and when it was in danger of being caught, some of the enslaved people in…

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  • 'Fruitvale Station': Portrait of a Life Cut Short

    Fruitvale Station, a new film that reconstructs the last 24 hours of the life of Oscar Grant III — an unarmed black man who was gunned down by a white police officer on a subway platform in 2009 in Oakland, Calif. — is a trenchant examination of police brutality against people of color in the…

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  • Trayvon Martin: How Does Justice Look?

    In a piece at The Nation, Mychal Denzel Smith writes that imprisonment for George Zimmerman wouldn’t be fair punishment or even justice for Trayvon Martin. The system is broken, and Zimmerman would be just one more person languishing behind bars. The pursuit of justice “needs to be more proactive,” he says. The murder trial of…

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  • Should Jay-Z Become an NFL Agent?

    Already an agent for athletes in the NBA and MLB, Jay-Z is working on obtaining his NFL certification, but Fox Sports‘ Jason Whitlock argues sarcastically that the rapper has built a music empire by creating “self-destructive and seductive” rhymes and should stay in his lane. Pete Rozelle, Paul Tagliabue, Roger Goodell and the league’s television…

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  • 100 Years Later, Deltas Are Still a Force

    (The Root) — 2013 concludes a century of innovation, trial and triumph for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., the largest black women’s organization in the country. Its consistent record of achievement has sealed the sisterhood’s place in the history books. And the women of Delta have only added more accomplishments to that roster in the…

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  • Quote of the Day: Lucille Clifton on Her Identity

    Read The Root’s appreciation of Lucille Clifton 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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  • 'Fruitvale Station' Star on Playing Oscar Grant

    (The Root) —  Fruitvale Station — a film chronicling the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Oakland, Calif., native who was shot and killed by a transit-police officer on New Year’s Day in 2009 — opens on Friday. Originally slated for an October release, distributor the Weinstein Co. and Executive Producer Forest Whitaker’s…

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