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Mandela Death Hoax Takes Off on Twitter
(The Root) — Twitter loves to send celebrities to their graves before their time, and sometimes they even resurrect people who have actually died just so they can send them off again. Nelson Mandela, who is currently in the hospital battling a lung infection, is the latest notable figure to have suffered a mythical death…
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Trayvon Martin Case: 'Trial of the Century'?
(The Root) — The Trayvon Martin case doesn’t involve a white-Bronco car chase, an NFL legend and a pretty blonde — just a black, unarmed teenage boy in a hoodie and a neighborhood-watch captain with a gun named George Zimmerman. But the second-degree-murder case against Zimmerman — who says he killed Trayvon in a gated…
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Quote of the Day: Alain Locke
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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'Plessy v. Ferguson': Who Was Plessy?
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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What Will George Zimmerman's Jury Look Like?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes at the Huffington Post that based on census records, the jury pool for George Zimmerman’s trial, which starts on Monday, will likely consist largely of older, white Republicans. The type of jury that George Zimmerman will get in Seminole County, Fla., has been a hot item of speculation and debate. But…
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Clarence Thomas: Still a Mystery
Arguing that Clarence Thomas has benefited from two pillars of the civil rights movement — the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action — CNN‘s John Blake asks why the justice is poised to help the Supreme Court bury them. He wore a black beret and army fatigues, warned people that a revolution was coming and…
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First Lady Wise Not to Meet With 'Michelle Obama of China'?
New York magazine‘s Maureen O’Connor says that Michelle Obama may be smart in not meeting with China’s first lady, Peng Liyuan, who is visiting the U.S. this week with her husband, Xi Jinping. The military-propaganda singer reportedly sang in praise of the Chinese army after its crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989. “Michelle Obama of…
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Prosecutor: Boyfriend Hired Hitman Over Abortion
The Daily News is reporting that a Connecticut man enraged that his pregnant girlfriend wouldn’t get an abortion allegedly hired a hitman to kill her, according to court documents. Carlton Bryan, 21, was riding with Shamari Jenkins, who was four months pregnant, when she was fatally shot April 29 while driving in Hartford’s North End,…
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South Africans Pray as Nelson Mandela Fights Lung Infection
Updated Sunday, June 9, 1:30 p.m. EDT: Family visits Nelson Mandela while South Africans pray for his health, according to the Associated Press. There was no official update on the 94-year-old former president and anti-apartheid leader after his second night in the hospital. His condition was described as “serious but stable” on Saturday. Earlier: Former…
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Bill Cosby Op-Ed Gets Cold Reception
(The Root) — He’s at it again! Bill Cosby would really like you young whippersnappers to stop it with the sagging pants and the rap music and the being poor. Also, get off his lawn. In a rather rambling op-ed he wrote for the New York Post, Cosby says that the problem plaguing our communities…
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