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5 Money Lessons from Kanye West's "New Slaves"
A friend of mine, shortly after Kanye West’s performance on Saturday Night Live, started getting all indignant on Facebook about Kanye’s new material. Too angry, too dark, too cynical. Too critical of a world that had given him so much. He argued that Kanye’s early work had the most appeal. I felt I had to…
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Banishing Razor Bumps
One of the most common questions I receive from African American men deals with razor bumps. It is estimated that up to 80% of African American men suffer from razor bumps at some point during their lives. Razor bumps, also called Pseudofollicultis Barbae , can occur in any area that hair is temporarily removed by…
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Friends and Family Remember Malcolm Shabazz in New York
(The Root) — Family and friends gathered to remember Malcolm Shabazz at a memorial service at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem on Thursday morning. Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, died in Mexico on May 9 at the age of 28. Unconfirmed reports say that he was killed during a bar fight-cum-robbery. “We are…
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#TheyAsked: A Group Therapy Session
(The Root) — Since its inception, NPR’s CodeSwitch blog has facilitated some very engrossing, enlightening discussions about race on Twitter. A recent conversation, inspired by a post on AskReddit, earned a bevy of responses. CodeSwitch asked its Twitter followers, “What’s the most ridiculous question you’ve been asked (about race)?” Using the hashtag #TheyAsked, hundreds of…
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Kerry Washington Got Death Threats for Supporting Obama?
Maybe some Scandal fans thought Olivia Pope’s relationship with a Republican president on the ABC drama somehow informed Kerry Washington’s real-life political views. And apparently they were disappointed when she spoke in support of President Obama at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. The response? Death threats. (What else?) The actress described the ridiculous — and…
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Meet Harvard Law's Youngest Black Grad
At 22 Cortlan Wickliff, who was featured on The Root’s Young Futurists 2012 list, will become the youngest African American ever to graduate from Harvard Law School. That might sound like a major accomplishment to some, but for this bright scholar, it’s just a part of his master plan, according to the Boston Globe: Wickliff initially wanted to be…
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Charles Ramsey Wannabe? Man Stages Kidnapping to Be Hero
Kyle Dube, a 20-year-old from Maine, created a fake Facebook account to lure a teenage girl out of her house and ultimately killed her, the Associated Press reports. His original motive for 15-year-old Nichole Cable’s kidnapping: He planned to “rescue” her and “be the hero.” In an affidavit released after Dube was indicted, Detective Thomas…
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I Want to Marry Her but She Drinks Too Much
(The Root) — “I’m in a relationship of almost two years with a woman I love. Recently she has become a heavy drinker. Her job is demanding and comes with high stress levels. Lately she’s been unusually stressed and has been drinking more often. It makes her aggressive and rude until she sobers up, and…
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