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Black and Brown Folks: The Government Is Watching
Imara Jones wants black and Latino people to pay close attention to reports about the government’s surveillance activities as of late. Writing at Colorlines, Jones describes a program called Prism that targets social media, which is used disproportionately by people of color. But particularly troubling for people of color is the program called Prism. With…
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Alabama County May Change Voting Rights
(The Root) — Drive beyond the tall iron gates of Highland Lakes in Shelby County, Ala., where homes range from $350,000 to a couple of million, and you’ll see that change has come to the South. Children of different races play together outside, while adults tend the yard or jog along the roads and trails.…
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Educated Black Women Do Find Husbands
(The Root) — Early last week I breathed a sigh of relief when I stumbled across several black sites offering commentary on the findings of a report from the United Negro College Fund stating that black women were enrolling in college in record numbers — more so, in fact, than any other race, ethnic group…
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Quote of the Day: Hank Aaron
Read the full quote here and check out more of The Root’s coverage of Hank Aaron 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…
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Video Comes to Instagram
(The Root) — The folks at Facebook must be feeling some pressure from Twitter’s latest hole-in-one. Rumors are swirling that on June 20, Facebook will announce that users of Instagram (which Facebook owns) will be able to share video with the app. The assumption is that this development is to compete with Vine, Twitter’s video-sharing…
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Da Vinci's Patron — as a Black Man?
(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The art of the Italian Renaissance embraced a wondrously varied range of imagery and subjects. One of the most…
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Who You Risk your Career and Comfort For Love?
Love is one of the experiences that can make people do some uncharacteristic things. Whether it’s talking on the phone for countless hours, traveling across multiple states in order to spend time with a special person or sacrificing tickets to the NBA Finals in exchange for tickets to the ballet; love has the ability to…
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Brandy, Ray J And Their Commercial Bloodline
It may seem like Brandy brought her family into the limelight to a newer generation, but it was her parents who started it all. Her father, Willie Raymond Norwood, Sr., made a name for himself in the music business as a jazz musician in Mississippi, and eventually transformed into a known gospel singer. Willie Sr.’s…
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Quote of the Day: Frederick Douglass on Africa
Read more of The Root’s Frederick Douglass coverage 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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Why Roc Nation Sports Should Sign Cheyenne Woods
ARDMORE, Pa — Putting her last name and bloodlines aside for just a second, this much is clear: Just about everyone is enamored with Cheyenne Woods. Everyone in the golf world, that is. Let’s come back to that. Ms. Woods made headlines when she asked her uncle a question at his press conference this week…
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