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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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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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