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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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#PaulasBestDishes Part 2?
(The Root) — Whoever is handling Paula Deen’s Twitter account must have thought that the online fallout from her n-word scandal was over. Unfortunately for Deen, the Internet never forgets. Deen’s Twitter attempted to return to its regularly scheduled tweets at the beginning of this month and proceeded with little fanfare. But when this tweet…
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Saudi Princess Accused of Enslaving Kenyan and 4 Other Women
Saudi Arabian Princess Meshael Alayban has been arrested in Orange County, Calif., on charges of holding five women against their will and forcing them into labor. According to NBC Los Angeles, one of the women enslaved — a woman from Kenya — escaped from a three-story building and alerted authorities after her boss stole their…
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RGIII Weds Longtime Girlfriend
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III married longtime girlfriend Rebecca Liddicoat Saturday in Colorado, according to the Washington Post. Although he hasn’t released any information about the ceremony, the Post was able to search out a few details through social media. The groom: Wore a blinding white suit with white shirt, vest and tie. The…
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Live-Tweeting the Zimmerman Trial Closing
(The Root) — Today’s closing statements marked the beginning of the end of a trial that has had the social media world glued to television and computer screens since it began on June 24. Twitter was tense as the prosecution’s closing arguments started at around 1:30 p.m. EDT. It was too much for some to…
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Detroit School District Tosses Black Books
Imagine living in a community with a 93 percent African-American population. Now imagine that all the black educational films, books and videos housed in a local high school library were just tossed in a Dumpster. If you live in Detroit’s Highland Park, this nightmare is a reality. According to the Atlantic Wire, Detroit’s Emergency Manager…
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Café Owner: Allergic to Black People? Don't Eat Here
Martha-Renee Kolleh, owner of a café in the overwhelmingly white town of Ossett in West Yorkshire, England, contends that a number of potential customers cross the threshold of her business and turn away upon discovering that she’s black, according to the BBC. Fed up with the unspoken bigotry and prejudice, she decided to confront the…
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Zimmerman Trial: Race Verdict Already In
(The Root) — Let me be clear. I hope George Zimmerman is convicted of murder. I hope so because I think he decided Trayvon Martin was “up to no good” mostly because the Skittle-toting 17-year-old was black, because I think that’s atrocious, because he’s unapologetic and his choice to take an innocent kid’s life caused…
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