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Interested in a Real New York 'Ghetto' Bus Tour?
Ever thought of looking at poor families in line for a food bank as entertainment? Well, Real Bronx Tours did. The New York tour-bus company offered, until earlier this week, a sightseeing jaunt featuring “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’ ” where tourists could gawk at poor families in line for food banks. But…
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Boy Scouts Admit Gay Kids but Not Adults
Although the Boy Scouts of America organization voted on Thursday to allow gay youths into its ranks — starting Jan. 1, 2014 — the deciding members didn’t amend the rule to include lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Scout leaders. So once a Scout turns 18 years old, he is no longer welcome or able to…
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Old-School Tips for Better Finances
(The Root) — I will never forget my father calling out to my sisters and me, “Turn off the lights,” as we went from one room to another in our ranch-style Baltimore home, leaving on all the lights in our wake. His next line pretty consistently was, “Do you think I’m made of money?!” We…
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Why I Agree With Obama's Morehouse Speech
The blogosphere has been on fire with disapproving dissections of President Obama’s commencement speech at Morehouse College. Sade Muhammad writes on her Tumblr, the Glossy Diaries, that maybe the president was just speaking from personal experience when he told the young black men to give back and work hard for success. Why does President Obama…
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Quote of the Day: Kimi Gray
Learn more about Kimi Gray 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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The Curious Case of Rihanna
(The Root) — From her Instagram account, you can gather that Rihanna really loves strippers, smoking and making fun of people who come for her family. She also really likes nudity, both hers and other people’s. On several occasions she has Instagrammed pictures containing nudity, though it is a violation of the site’s terms of…
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Lauryn Hill's Anti-Gay Lyrics? Just Say No
Lauryn Hill is controversial and problematic, and not just to the Internal Revenue Service. The embattled former Fugee besmirches the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in her newest song, “Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix),” Monica Miller writes on BET.com. Miller says you can’t purport to tear down one social injustice while perpetuating another. Hill’s new…
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A Bad Science Experiment Doesn't Make Me a Criminal
When high schooler Kiera Wilmot was arrested and expelled from her school for a failed, explosive science experiment, she was afraid. But now she’s speaking out about her ordeal on the ACLU’s blog. I don’t think police should have been involved because I’m a good student for one. And two, it was a big deal,…
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Obama: We Must Define the War on Terror or It Will Define Us
On Thursday, President Obama delivered a major speech at the Natonal Defense University in Washington, D.C., on the changing face of the war on terror, repairing U.S. relations with the Muslim community, his efforts to close Guantánamo Bay and the necessity for drones, reports NBC News. “We must define the nature and scope of this…
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