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Quote of the Day: Frederick Douglass
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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Where's Black Outrage for Mark Carson?
(The Root) — When James Byrd, a black man, was dragged to his death in Texas in 1998 by a group of men later identified as having white-supremacist tendencies, African Americans were outraged. Most Americans were. That same year, another horrifying hate crime captured the attention of the nation, when gay student Matthew Shepard was…
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Veterans Deserve Better on Memorial Day
In his Washington Post column about Memorial Day, Colbert I. King reflects on what the country owes veterans, especially in light of the disrespect shown in Washington, D.C., to the recent observance of the Bureau of Colored Troops’ 150th anniversary. The observance of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Bureau of Colored Troops…
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Right-Wing Reflex: Blame Obama First
In his column at the Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page reprimands the GOP for pointing fingers at President Barack Obama in the IRS scandal, saying that they’re doing so because they don’t know who’s really to blame. … But the big question occupying Capitol Hill is, who is to blame? House Speaker John Boehner’s remarks on…
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Is Vine Taking Cues From Hip-Hop?
(The Root) — Ever wonder why Vine videos are six seconds long? The reason may be rooted in hip-hop. Inspired by the popularity of the gif, Twitter’s micro-video-sharing app Vine is growing in popularity. The app allows users to create short looping videos of six seconds or less. It has led to a creative genre…
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First Lady and Kerry Washington Push for the Arts
(The Root) — Students from the Savoy Elementary School in Washington, D.C., crooned, somersaulted, Lindy Hopped and re-enacted scenes from the 1970s film Grease on Friday as a way to flex their school’s new muscles in arts education. They performed in the gym to an audience of their peers and two distinguished ladies cheering in…
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Miguel: Blacks Are Too Judgmental?
(The Root) — Miguel has been having a tough time on Twitter lately. First he was immortalized as a meme via countless photoshopped pictures after kicking some fans in the face during the BillBoard Music Awards. Now he’s being dragged through the fire after making a blanket statement about black people. “I’m proud of my…
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Integration Plaintiff Gets High School Diploma 54 Years Late
More than half a century after she was a plaintiff in a lawsuit to integrate Virginia’s Charlottesville City Schools, 71-year-old Olivia Ferguson McQueen received her high school diploma on Saturday. The civil rights lawsuit was successful, the Huffington Post reports, but McQueen still spent her senior year sequestered from her peers and tutored in the…
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Amanda Bynes vs. Rihanna?
(The Root) — Former child star Amanda Bynes’ manic antics continued on Twitter yesterday when she lashed out at Rihanna, seemingly at random. It started when Bynes sent tweets telling Rihanna that she almost named her dog after her and that Chris Brown beat her because she wasn’t pretty enough. Rihanna threw out a quick…
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A Father's Undying Love on Memorial Day
As Stephen Rusiniak stood at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., he saw a man in a wheelchair running his fingers over a name. In the New Jersey Record, Rusiniak writes that watching the man remember his son made him cry a bit himself. He dabbed the tears that were running down his cheeks…
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