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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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Absent Dads Make Girls Into Sluts? Come On
At xoJane, Helena Andrews, a contributing editor at The Root, rejects the idea that an absent father makes for a promiscuous daughter. She disagrees with a Texas Christian University study that came to that controversial conclusion. Obviously the study and research and so forth are all sort of bogus, as most of the smart women who analyzed…
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Ode to the Black Tiger Mother
The Root Contributing Editor Farai Chideya, in a piece for the Huffington Post, calls single black mothers Tiger Moms and applauds them for overcoming challenges to raise strong black men and women . I’m not a great satirist, and what my family achieved is too serious to get that tonality wrong. My father and mother split…
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My Man Is Looking Through My Phone
(The Root) — “My ex used to go through my phone when I would leave the room, and it would piss me off. He never found anything because I was being faithful to him. I decided to put a lock on my phone because I felt disrespected, now he’s pissed. What do I do now?”…
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Serena Williams: Built Like a Monster Truck?
According to an article in the Huffington Post, a Rolling Stone magazine cover story on Serena Williams compares her figure to that of a monster truck. “Sharapova is tall, white and blond, and, because of that, makes more money in endorsements than Serena, who is black, beautiful and built like one of those monster trucks…
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Serena on What She 'Supposedly Said' About Rape
Hmm … normally a person would apologize for or clarify wrong, misguided or insensitive things she did say, and deny things that she didn’t actually say. Right? That’s why Serena Williams’ recent statement about her controversial Rolling Stone interview on the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case (in which a 16-year-old girl was raped by two high…
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Frederick Douglass Statue Unveiled in US Capitol
Frederick Douglass will be officially remembered on Capitol Hill, the Associated Press reports. On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner led the unveiling ceremony of a 7-foot bronze statue of the former slave in the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall. Steve Weitzman, a Maryland artist, created the statue, which portrays Douglass in his 50s. The statue joins…
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84 Arrests in North Carolina's 'Moral Monday' Protests
On Monday, which kicked off the seventh week in a row of what protesters are calling “Moral Monday” demonstrations against state GOP policies, 84 people were arrested at the North Carolina General Assembly building, the Huffington Post reports. Since the gatherings, first initiated by the state NAACP chapter and its head, the Rev. William Barber,…
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Mistrial in Case of Detroit Cop Who Shot 7-Year-Old
A judge has declared a mistrial in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Joseph Weekley, a Detroit police officer who fatally shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a 2010 police raid. Jurors failed to reach a verdict after a third day of deliberations, CBS News reports. A retrial date has not yet been set. Weekley was charged…
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