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Susan Rice to Be New National Security Adviser
Susan Rice rises again. The United Nations ambassador has been tapped to replace Tom Donilon, who is resigning, as President Obama’s national security adviser, according to the Washington Post. In December of 2012, she withdrew her name from consideration for secretary of state after Obama’s opponents accused her of misleading the public in the aftermath…
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Why Heckling Michelle Obama Doesn't Pay
(The Root) — Michelle Obama took a moment deliver a verbal chin check to a heckler during a private fundraiser on Tuesday. Ellen Sturtz got more than she bargained for when she interrupted the first lady, demanding that President Obama sign an anti-discrimination executive order similar to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. According to…
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Android Users Welcome Vine App
(The Root) — From your cousin Leroy to the White House, it seems like everybody is on Vine, Twitter’s crazy-popular video-sharing app. Everybody, that is, except for Android users — until now. Twitter announced yesterday that Vine for Android is now available. Now, oh humble Samsung Galaxy user, you, too, can make and share six-second…
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Bradley Manning Needs a Plea Deal — Not Life in Jail
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson argues that Army Pfc. Bradley Manning deserves to be punished — but not too severely. The treatment of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been excessively harsh, as far as I can tell. If he is found guilty of leaking more than 700,000 classified documents, he deserves some punishment — probably — but…
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Quote of the Day: Thurgood Marshall
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. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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My Kid Insists That I'm White, but I'm Not
(The Root) — “My 5-year-old daughter is convinced that I’m white. “I’m originally from the Dominican Republic and identify as black and Latina. Her biological father is from the Central African Republic, and she sees herself as black. “Just last weekend, we were at the Bed-Stuy fish fry and she said, ‘Mami, you know you…
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Maintaining My Natural Hair Has Taken Over My Life!
In a piece for xoJane.com, Janday Wilson discusses how her need to perfect her curls and twists consumes major parts of her life. Taking care of my natural hair has made me so obsessed I often struggle with balancing my hair regimen with life’s demands like sleep, spending time with my loved ones, personal time,…
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Young, Black, Gifted and Underemployed
(The Root) — President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign is notably remembered for a political television commercial with the opening line, “It’s morning again in America.” The optimism expressed in the narration suggested that improvements to the U.S. economy since the recession of the late 1970s were due to Reagan’s policies. It was a winning…
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Why I Am Not a 'Strong Black Woman'
In a piece for Clutch magazine, Jamilah Lemieux describes why she does not approve of the term “strong black woman.” I never wanted to be a “strong Black woman”; in fact, I bristle when people call me one. I’m Black and I’m a woman and I happen to have a number of things about me…
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How Social Media Helps Find the Missing
(The Root) — The recent discovery of three kidnapped women in Cleveland has left followers of the story wondering what could have been done to rescue them sooner. When Amanda Berry was kidnapped 10 years ago, social media was still in its infant stages, but now it is emerging as a viable tool in locating…
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