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  • Nomadness Travel Tribe: Black Globetrotters Have Seen it All

    At this point there are literally only a handful of places in the world that, collectively, the members of Nomadness Travel Tribe have not been to. As of last count there were just 11 – Nauru, Comoros, Tajikstan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Samoa, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, the Solomon Islands, Azerbijan and Brunei. That’s right, those other roughly 185…

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  • IRS's Lois Lerner Does Obama No Favors

    (The Root) — It seems that Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS Exempt Organizations division who is at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, can’t get out of her own way. First her apology for her division’s targeted scrutiny of conservative groups — to neutralize fallout over a forthcoming audit (pdf) —…

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  • Stop and Frisk and … Give Us Your Weed?

    Stop and frisk continues to be controversial, and the New York Civil Liberties Union made another allegation on Wednesday. NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman charged that in addition toharassing too many minorities, police also rack up a sizable number of marijuana arrests through stop and frisk that probably wouldn’t happen otherwise, according to the Daily…

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  • Oklahoma Mom Delivers Baby Boy During Tornado

    Giving birth is tough enough, but delivering a child during a tornado is an amazing feat. And that’s just what Shay-la Taylor did to bring son Braeden Immanuel into the world, reports the Huffington Post. At 3:30 p.m., the tornado touched down, flattening the building. Only 25 other patients and staff were left in the…

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  • Look: President Obama's 'Foxy' 1979 Prom Photos

    President Obama’s senior-prom photos from high school have surfaced, thanks to classmate Kelli Allman (née McCormack), and Time reveals that his outfit was fantastic. Time also got ahold of some choice pages from Allman’s yearbook, in which a young “Barry” Obama spits major 1979 game, writing to Allman, “You are extremely sweet and foxy.” Barry spent his days…

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  • Tiger Woods Accepts Garcia's Apology, but Will Sponsors?

    When Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia joked that he’d serve Tiger Woods “fried chicken” for dinner earlier this week, he probably didn’t realize that the quip could cost him his TaylorMade sponsorship, reports the Daily Mail. The Spaniard’s … abject apology for a remark that carries racist overtones — fried chicken is stereotypically a food associated with…

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  • That Was Your Black Planet Screen Name?!

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  • Twitter Horrified by Attack on UK Soldier

    (The Root) — Two men allegedly attacked a British soldier on active duty in London on Wednesday, beheading him with machetes and meat cleavers while citizens looked on in horror. The assailants reportedly hit the soldier with their car before attacking him. Afterward they demanded that people on the scene take video. One of the…

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  • Obama at Morehouse: Try Another Listen

    (The Root) — As I suspect is the case with many African-American voters who hoped against hope that Barack Obama’s presidency would bring about a sea change in the condition of our people, I’ve been disappointed with what he has been able to accomplish. I give him full credit for the considerable achievements of his…

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  • Quote of the Day: Charles Hamilton Houston

    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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