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SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling: A Punt?
(The Root) — In a majority opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court issued its ruling today in Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas, a case challenging the school’s use of race as one factor in admissions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which upheld the university’s policy, was vacated…
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Why I Love Serena Williams and Michelle Obama
(The Root) — I once wrote of the comparisons between tennis legend Arthur Ashe, known for his grace and quiet temperament on and off of the court, and President Obama, who, like Ashe, has been criticized for not being emotional or angry enough at times. What I didn’t write then is that part of why…
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Who Was the 1st Black Millionairess?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the…
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Understanding Out-of-Wedlock Black Births
Conventional wisdom says that black people who are married have more children, but Atlantic editor Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that statistics show the opposite. There is nothing “immoral” or “pathological” about deciding not to marry. In the glorious black past, women who made that decision were more — not less — likely to become mothers. People…
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Amid Mandela's Legacy, South African Youth Are Politically Apathetic
News of Nelson Mandela’s failing health has pointed a spotlight at the next generation of South Africans, writes Bolanle Omisore at Ebony, and they are not as politically involved as their forefathers. “I came back to South African in 1994, before Mandela’s election, and it was the beginning of liberalization,” says Mandlesizwe L. Isaacs, an…
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Quote of the Day: Booker T. Washington
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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'Yeezus' Is Good, Not Great, and Quite Misogynist
Sparse rock chords, medium-sized rhymes and women as objects is how Yeezus sounds to Kris Ex, who reviewed Kanye West’s latest album in L.A. Weekly. He also notes West’s misogynist lyrics, despite becoming father to a baby girl, North West, with girlfriend Kim Kardashian, last weekend. The album is short, clocking in at 40 minutes,…
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Live-Tweeting the Zimmerman Trial
Join us here or on Twitter for a live discussion of the opening statements in the second-degree-murder trial of George Zimmerman, who is accused of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Use the hashtag #GZtrial to weigh in with your tweets. Columbus Ohio News, Weather Tweets about “#GZtrial” !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”); Corey Dade, an award-winning journalist based in…
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Obamacare Begins in 100 Days; Is the Government Ready?
On Oct. 1, President Obama’s Affordable Care Act for Americans finally begins. According to the Washington Post, the question now is whether the federal government is ready. There are, arguably, two big things that need to happen between now and October. The first is technical: The federal government needs to finish building the infrastructure…
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Maria Sharapova: Let's Talk About Serena's Married Boyfriend
While tennis star Serena Williams is busy apologizing for her comments around the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case, it seems she also targeted her old rival Maria Sharapova during a recent Rolling Stone interview. In response to Williams calling her boring, Sharapova released a few jabs of her own during a pre-Wimbledon press conference on Saturday, according to the…
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