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Obama Encourages Students to Follow Mandela's Legacy
During a speech at the University of Cape Town on Sunday, President Obama spoke about his personal introduction to politics, working against apartheid in college. He challenged students in the audience to fight for what they believe, reports CNN. Speaking at the University of Cape Town, Obama recounted how American college campaigns against investment in…
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Watch the BET Awards With Us!
It’s a big night for BET and an even bigger night for black folks on Twitter. Everybody knows that the Internet is at its best when it’s live-tweeting something, and what better than the BET Awards? This year’s show boasts performances from India.Arie, Snoop Lion and Miguel, to name a few, and there will be…
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Obama Family Visit Mandela's Former Prison
On Sunday, President Obama, along with his family, visited Robben Island and the prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, reports the Los Angeles Times. Obama’s tour of the prison at Robben Island was something of a symbolic union between the first African American president of the United States and the first black president of South…
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Ten Days in, Vine Is on Its Way Out
(The Root) — When Facebook announced Instagram’s video service, users across Twitter and Facebook heralded what they saw as the inevitable death of Vine, Twitter’s video-sharing app. They may have been on to something. Marketing Land reports that though Instagram video has only been around less than two weeks, its number of shares on Twitter…
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Rev. Al Sharpton Blasts Mike Bloomberg Over Stop-and-Frisk Comments
Rev. Al Sharpton demanded an apology from New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg during a press conference on Saturday, according to the Daily News. On his weekly radio show, the mayor recently defended the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices, saying, “I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.” “The tone that has been set…
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No One Cares About Jay-Z's New Music
Longevity is tough for most rappers, but Jay-Z makes it look easy. Still, Kris Ex writes in L.A. Weekly that no one is paying much attention to the rapper-cum-businessman’s music anymore, including his next album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, which fans will be able to download through a Samsung phone app in July, and Jay couldn’t…
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When Leaning In Isn't Enough
(Special to The Root) — It seems like a lot of women — women with the time for these things — are talking about Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” project. It’s a book, a website, some kind of social network and, for all I know, probably an upcoming movie. But color me underwhelmed. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Sandberg…
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Why 'Cracker' Can't Compare to the N-Word
Discovering the bigger racist, Kathleen Parker writes at the Washington Post, seems to be the real goal at the heart of the George Zimmerman trial. When Rachel Jeantel, friend of the late Trayvon Martin, told the jury this week that Trayvon said a “creepy-ass cracker” was following him, her words played into that very discussion.…
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Quote of the Day: Lani Guinier on Leadership
Read the quote in its full 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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