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Meet '30 Leaders in the Fight for Black Men'
The Daily Beast has presented a list of “30 Leaders in the Fight for Black Men,” pulled together by President Obama’s former spiritual adviser (and The Root 100 honoree) Joshua DuBois. They include politicians, activists, writers and athletes — from the NAACP’s Ben Jealous to The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade.…
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Crazy Talk: Ohio School Bans Afro Puffs and Braids?
Hopefully this isn’t true. It’s being reported today that a school in Ohio has banned, well, just about 75 percent of reasonable hairstyles for school-age African-American girls with natural hair. No “Afro puffs” (the style that results when your hair isn’t straight and you pull it back) and no “small twisted braids.” If this really…
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SCOTUS' Surprise Prostitution Ruling
(The Root) — While upcoming rulings on same-sex marriage, voting rights and affirmative action have captured most of the Supreme Court-related headlines, one of the court’s most newsworthy rulings has nothing to do with those cases at all. In a blow to the Obama administration, on Friday the nation’s highest court struck down a federal…
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Kimye Name Their Baby North, Bad Jokes Ensue
(The Root) — Within minutes of the confirmed news hitting the Internet, Baby Kimye’s real name (according to unnamed sources) was a national trending topic on Twitter. The name: North. North West. E! News confirmed the name with a source close to the family, and TMZ has reportedly seen the birth certificate. E! also says that…
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A Slave's Legacy Lives On in World War II
The following is an excerpt from Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation, a book about an 18th-century slave, Rosalie, and her amazing descendants. The coronation of George VI as king of England provided the ostensible motive for the Associated Negro Press to send the journalist Fay M. Jackson from Los Angeles…
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Sneaky Practices That Cheat Fast-Food Workers
At Colorlines, Seth Freed Wessler uncovers illegal employment practices at many fast-food restaurants, and the underpaid workers who suffer the consequences. The U.S. Department of Labor found a couple years ago that 40 percent of fast food outposts in the country fail to consistently pay their employees a minimum wage or overtime. And a recent study from New York…
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Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr. on Influence
Read more about Martin Luther King Jr. 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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Marco Rubio Lambasted by Tea Party for Immigration Bill
In an op-ed piece at the Washington Post, Dana Milbank describes how the Tea Party has turned on one of its own, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for his immigration plan. Members of the Tea Party convened on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to voice their concerns with Rubio’s bill. Much of the scene was familiar: the yellow…
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J. Cole Fan Under Investigation
(The Root) — A Texas teen is under investigation after tweeting a picture of himself pointing a gun in his young sister’s face. The teenager tweeted the picture to rapper J. Cole along with the words, “Retweet me and I’ll buy Born Sinner (J. Cole’s latest album). Don’t retweet me and I’ll kill my lil…
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