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Stephen G. Hill Talks Expanding BET Awards Brand and Road to Success
BlackEnterprise.com caught up with Hill about his path to BET, what he hopes to accomplish with a new way of branding the awards and his plan for latter years back on radio. Before we go into The BET experience, who is Stephen G. Hill and how did come to your current post as president of…
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Obama on Judicial Nominations: 'Don't Play Games'
(The Root) — In a statement from the White House Rose garden today, President Obama announced his nomination of three candidates for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. One of them: Judge Robert Leon Wilkins, an African-American Harvard Law School graduate and former law-firm partner currently serving as a…
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From Miss America to Republican Congresswoman?
Erika Harold reportedly ran for Miss America (and won) in 2003 as a “dry run” for a political race. Now the Harvard Law School graduate, who has spoken at the Republican National Convention and who combined abstinence-only education with an anti-bullying message (she says she was “racially and sexually harassed” as a child) in her…
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Young Voters Bid Farewell to the GOP
(The Root) — A recent study by the College Republican National Committee shows that young voters find the Grand Old Party particularly unappealing. According to the 95-page study, entitled “Grand Old Party for a Brand New Generation,” voters younger than 30 are critical of the Republican stance on contraceptive rights and marriage equality. They used…
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I Went to an HBCU to Experience Being a Minority
Writing at The Root DC, Alyssa Paddock explains why, despite being white, she chose to attend a historically black college. There’s the obvious: She got a lacrosse scholarship. And then there’s another reason: The self-imposed challenge of being a racial minority for the first time. Plus, Paddock says, her view of race as a nonissue…
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What Lautenberg's Death Means for Cory Booker
The death of New Jersey Sen, Frank Lautenberg, the “liberal lion” who served five terms, has changed the political landscape of the Garden State, especially for Newark Mayor Cory Booker. While Booker is praising the late politician as a “true champion” who “worked to make America a stronger, healthier and safer place to live,” others…
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On Being His Beyonce
Get married. Pay for dates. Introduce her to his friends. Approach her. Let her know where he lives. Commit. Make long-term plans. Be affectionate. Be seen in public together. Be seen online together. Claim her. Propose. Give head. The actions listed above are just a prominent few of the many things I’ve heard… 1. Many…
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Quote of the Day: Garvey on Our Ancestors
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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George Zimmerman Will Go on Trial, Not Trayvon Martin
The Huffington Post’s Mark I. Pinsky is dishing out legal analysis about the George Zimmerman defense team’s attempt to make use of Trayvon Martin’s past bouts with marijuana use and fighting. Pinsky also explores the relevance of the case’s racial aspects to the legal proceedings. At a May 28 hearing, Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson ruled…
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Who Cares If Women Are the Breadwinners?
(The Root) — A couple of weeks ago, a frustrated single woman wrote into Ask Demetria, the other column I write for The Root each Thursday, to, well, ask if she should only date men who made as much as, or more money than, she does. She has been open to entertaining men whose income…
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