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Reports: Rapper Lil Snupe Dead
Multiple sources are reporting that 18-year-old rapper Lil Snupe of Meek Mill’s Dream Chasers Records has died after being shot earlier this week. A writer for AllHipHop.com wrote this morning, “Now, I am hearing that he has been found dead. I don’t have a lot of details, but I heard he was shot by some…
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Instagram Officially Has Video
(The Root) — Vine officially has a run for its money. Facebook announced on Thursday that users of its social photo-sharing app, Instagram, now has the capacity for video. Rumor of the announcement began swirling a couple of days ago when TechCrunch reported that Facebook would be making this announcement today, and they were right…
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911 Call Allowed in Zimmerman Trial
Saturday, June 22, 12:13 p.m. EDT: On Saturday morning, Judge Debra Nelson ruled that while the audiotape of the 911 call can be played during the upcoming trial, which begins on Monday, the findings of audio will not be admissable. CBS News reports that this decision will likely shorten the proceedings by one week. Thursday, June 20,…
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GOP Leader Forced Out Over Racist Email
(The Root) — Just days after his racist remarks in an email sparked a firestorm, an Illinois Republican Party leader has resigned, on the same day the Republican National Committee demanded his resignation. Montgomery County, Ill., GOP Chairman Jim Allen wrote the following about GOP candidate Erika Harold, the 2003 Miss America who is multiracial and…
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Pelosi Blasts Proposed $20.5 Billion Food Stamp Cuts
On Wednesday the House of Representatives killed an amendment by Rep. James McGovern that would have eliminated planned food stamp cuts in the GOP’s five-year farm bill, replacing the cuts with reductions to big agriculture subsidies. The bill currently includes $20.5 billion in food stamp cuts over the next 10 years (a number that could…
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Diddy: Ready to Revolutionize TV
(The Root) — There must be something in the water, because major figures in hip-hop are revolutionizing the way we consume media — during Black Music Month, no less. On the heels of Jay-Z’s partnership with Samsung to release his new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, to 1 million users three days before the actual…
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Studies: Can Racism Shorten Life?
It’s fair to say that Paula Deen’s unapologetic racism has gotten her Twitter-murdered in the most hilarious way possible. Thanks to #PaulasBestDishes and today’s #PaulaWon’tCookIt hastags, anyone’s image of her as a butter-loving grandmother figure is officially deep-fried and dead. But of course, when it comes to bigotry, it’s not just the perpetrators who suffer.…
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Communism Didn't End Racism in Cuba
Afro-Cuban activists Calvo Cárdenas and Manuel Cuesta Morúa created the Citizens Committee for Racial Integration (CIR) to advocate for Cuba’s underrepresented Afro-Cuban population. CIR champions policies to fight discrimination that Afro-Cubans experience in the workforce. The group’s work gives Cuba’s Communist Party pause because it refutes the idea that 50 years of communism has eliminated…
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Should Fewer Students Go to College?
(The Root) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is clearly not afraid to court controversy. He has fought for bans on smoking and large sodas, despite his efforts sparking criticism and ridicule. The mayor has found himself provoking critics again with his comments earlier this month about which students should attend college. During his…
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Quote of the Day: James Baldwin on Children
Read more about James Baldwin 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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