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Why Are You Hating on Love?
We should stop dissing rappers’ girlfriends for having a past, writes Evette Dionne at Clutch magazine. She says that we need to look beyond the checkered histories of women like Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose — because they’ve found love. The shaming of Amber Rose for dating and falling in love and marrying when her…
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Fixing the Miseducation of Black Children
(The Root) — On July 5, Ivory Kaleb Toldson was born. He is my first son and second child. During his birth I relived the joy, wonderment and jitters that I experienced in 2007 when my daughter, Makena, was born. Like millions of parents, I want the best education for my children. As a black…
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Quote of the Day: Harold Cruse on White Identity
Read the quote in context 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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My Fiancé Is Upset I Won't Take His Name
(The Root) — “My fiancé has become adamant about me taking his last name after we’re married. I’ve always told him that I was keeping my name for professional reasons, which he’s always been fine with, but now he has a problem with it. He says that my unwillingness to change my name implies a…
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Mandela's Granddaughters Host Twitter Q&A
(The Root) — When it was tweeted that Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Swati Dlamini would be answering all questions asked via Twitter, the focus quickly turned to Mandela’s health. The two are the stars of the reality show Being Mandela, and the Q&A happened on the show’s Twitter page. A lung infection sent…
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Kanye Addresses 'Black Skinhead' Video Leak
(The Root) — Kanye West is in a bit of a tizzy over the leaking of the video for his latest single, “Black Skinhead,” from his Yeezus album. Twitter was talking about the video yesterday when West shot out a series of tweets lamenting the vid’s release before it was finished and urging websites hosting…
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Jason Collins' Ex Speaks Out
(The Root) — Last April, NBA veteran Jason Collins publicly announced that he was gay in what many supporters — myself and President Barack Obama included — heralded as a courageous leap in the right direction. Coming from the first openly gay male athlete on a major professional team, Collins’ deeply personal essay in Sports…
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Target's Ridiculous Reminders About Hispanic People
According to a lawsuit filed against Target this week, three of the company’s warehouse locations used a training document on “cultural tips” that contained a combination of ridiculously obvious and stereotypical, offensive pieces of advice related to Hispanic workers, the Huffington Post reports. Breaking news: They might now all be wearing sombreros. (Seriously, that was…
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Harpo, Who This Woman?
(The Root) — Twitter users have been glued to their screens and televisions since the George Zimmerman murder trial began, and a new face on the Zimmerman defense team has folks asking who she is and where she came from. We know the faces of defense attorneys Don West and Mark O’Mara all too well,…
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Racist Past of Rand Paul's Aide Exposed
(The Root) — Sen. Rand Paul generated headlines and some kudos for speaking at the historically black college Howard University. The moment was significant because the Kentucky senator’s previous controversial statements about the Civil Rights Act made him a target of suspicion and critique among African Americans. That suspicion is even less unlikely to subside…
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