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Black Power, 19th-Century Style
(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. A superbly muscled black man lies on a featureless terrain, his face fixed on…
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I'm Pregnant, and I Have a Mother-in-Law From Hell
An expectant mother has concerns about bringing a child into the world while a war with her overbearing mother-in-law rages on. She describes her battle to writer Danielle T. Pointdujour at Ebony. From the minute I walked through the door she was on me. She attacked everything from my hair to my major at the…
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Michael Steele 'Looking at' a Run for Governor
A role as an MSNBC contributor evidently isn’t enough to satisfy former (and first African-American) Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s appetite for politics. Plus, he says, he loves his home state of Maryland. Steele, who has recently had his share of blunt commentary about his party’s relationship with minority voters, told Chuck Todd that…
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Is the DNA Law Worse Than Stop and Frisk?
(The Root) — In a close (5-4) decision, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled on Monday that police may legally collect DNA from those arrested for but not convicted of a serious crime. According to the New York Times, the federal government already authorizes the practice, as do 28 states, but nevertheless, the ruling has sent…
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Meet John McCain's New Daughter-in-Law
(The Root) — Thanks to some intrepid gossip gatherers, we knew well in advance that Rep. John Boehner’s daughter was marrying a black man, but Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona caught us all off guard when he Instagrammed this picture of his son and his new wife, who appears to be a woman of…
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Is Eric Holder Really a Liability for Obama?
(The Root) — Hypocrisy abounds when it comes to differing views of Attorney General Eric Holder. Liberals didn’t seem to mind when Holder declined to prosecute New Black Panther Party members on charges that they’d menaced voters at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 — even though they’d surely have complained if the Justice Department…
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Supreme Court OKs Warrantless DNA Collection
In a 5-4 decision announced on Monday that created what the American Civil Liberties Union called “a gaping new exception to the Fourth Amendment,” the Supreme Court ruled that police can use cheek swabs to take DNA from people they arrest, the Washington Post reports. It’s “like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that…
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Why Men Run From Commitment
Although I don’t consider myself a relationship expert (hell, I don’t even think such a thing exists), I’ve learned a lot about love from my past experiences. Even more importantly than that, I’ve learned a lot about myself and the ignorant mistakes I’ve made during the dating process that has me currently single right now.…
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The Best of Peejet
(The Root) — A 25-year-old man known to the cyberworld as Peejet is taking the Internet by storm with his Instagram account. His feed features pictures of celebrity scenes that he has hilariously photoshopped himself into. More than 73,000 followers yuk it up over pictures of Peejet spotting Drake at the gym, photobombing Halle Berry…
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Report: Push to Expel Dark-Skinned Malians From Kidal
Black residents of the northern-Malian city of Kidal say that rebels from the lighter-skinned Taureg ethnic group are attempting to expel dark-skinned residents, the Associated Press reports. A spokesman for the rebel National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, which is accused of pushing for the expulsion, told the AP, “It’s not a matter of…
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