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Chief Keef Arrested Again
Chicago rapper Chief Keef was arrested near Atlanta this week just two months after he was released from custody in Chicago for a probation violation, the Chicago Tribune reports. The controversial 17-year-old artist (real name: Keith Farrelle Cozart) was charged with one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct for smoking marijuana in a hotel room. Chief Keef, 17,…
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Yes, Fried-Chicken Jokes Are Racist
(The Root) — When I heard that a golfer had made a “joke” about Tiger Woods and fried chicken, I had to double-check to make sure it wasn’t 1997 all over again. That was the year Frank “Fuzzy” Zoeller was asked for his thoughts about Woods’ impending success at the Masters, and he joked about…
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Tornado Victim Identified: Ja'Nae Hornsby
Among the first victims to be publicly identified after the tornadoes that devastated Moore, Okla., on Monday is 9-year-old Ja’Nae Hornsby, whose father told news station KJRH that her body was found in the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School. “She was just a big ball of energy; she was lovable. You couldn’t not love…
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Obama Administration Mistakes Journalism for Espionage
The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson gives perspective on the Associated Press scandal. The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their e-mails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold. It also may well be unconstitutional. In…
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The Obamas' Tough Talk to Black Grads
Kai Wright gives his take on Colorlines on the controversial angle of last weekend’s high-profile commencement addresses. Graduation season is upon us, and with it the time-honored ritual of big, important graduation speeches. This weekend, Barack and Michelle Obama each gave theirs at historically black colleges — the president spoke at Morehouse, the first lady…
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Kanye West, 'New Slaves' and Hypocrisy
Ernest Owens rips into Kanye West’s new single at the Huffington Post, lamenting that the singer knows more than other rappers, yet “does nothing to fix the problem.” Everyone has that one cousin in the family that never tends to shut up at the dinner table. They complain about how the world is wicked and…
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Soyinka on 'Obscene' Push for Achebe Nobel
(Sahara Reporters) — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well-known novelist, Chinua Achebe, as a storyteller who earned global celebration, adding, however, that those describing Achebe as “the father of African literature” were ignorant. In a wide-ranging interview with Sahara Reporters, Soyinka paid tribute to the late novelist, who died on March 21,…
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Child-Support Laws: A Boon for Gold Diggers?
(The Root) — Just when it seemed Charlie Sheen’s story couldn’t get any more depressing for him, his fans and his family, things have managed to take a turn for the worse. His estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, has been admitted to rehab for drug addiction, something she’s struggled with for years. Despite the fact that…
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Quote of the Day: Jean Toomer
Read more about Jean Toomer 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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Doggie Racism Is Real! Here's How to Deal
(The Root) — “We live in a diverse urban city. I am white and my husband is Filipino and white, but he’s often mistaken for Indian or black/mixed because of his dark complexion. He is great with animals in general and is a supersweet, calm, gentle person; we foster rescue dogs that are really sensitive,…
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