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Twitter Listens to Kanye
(The Root) — Beginning at around 9 p.m. last night and stretching into the wee hours of the morning, Kanye West’s video for his new single, “New Slaves,” premiered in an innovative way — projected on the sides of buildings at 66 locations around the globe. The song can most accurately be described as “very…
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How Foreclosure Undermined Black and Brown Wealth
Colorlines‘ Imara Jones hopes that someone is paying attention to a recent report on how to fix the policy mess’s impact on communities of color. Despite recent headlines trumpeting a return of America’s real estate market to its boom-time highs, a report released today by the Alliance for a Just Society shows how little of…
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Quote of the Day: Gordon Blaine Hancock
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 the Apology for Susan Rice?
Emails released this week vindicate the former secretary of state hopeful. MSNBC‘s Morgan Whitaker, producer at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s PoliticsNation, asks where the Republicans are who accused her of incompetence and worse. Last fall Republicans launched a series of scathing attacks on Susan Rice as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations became the…
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Intimate Look at the Williams Sisters
(The Root) — It’s tough being a black female athlete in America, especially if you’re crushing the competition in a predominantly white sport like tennis where fans have called you “nigger” midgame. In Venus and Serena, the new documentary that hit select theaters recently, director and producer Michelle Major and her team dug into the…
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Angelina's Announcement: What It Means for Black Women
Dr. Aletha Maybank wonders in a piece for Ebony whether the celebrity-inspired buzz around prevention will help reduce racial disparities in treatment. Earlier this week, many of us were surprised to learn that Angelina Jolie made the brave choice to have a double mastectomy and then chose to share her story with the entire world…
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Help! My Black Nephew Thinks He's Yellow
(The Root) — In The Root’s first-ever Reddit Ask Me Anything, our Race Manners columnist Jenée Desmond-Harris took all of your burning questions about race etiquette. Need to know how to talk about race with the children in your life? Want to know why it might not just be a preference if someone says, “I’m…
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The IRS Scandal: A Reality Check
(The Root) — For the Obama administration’s critics, Steven T. Miller, the ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service, might now serve as the face of the overreaching, politically intimidating and criminal behavior of big government under this president. That message is filtering from Republicans amid Miller’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee…
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Twitter Lands Bahraini Activists in Prison
(The Root) — It’s not rare for people’s behavior on social media to land them in hot water; people lose their jobs all the time for things they post on Facebook or put on Twitter. But in Bahrain, tweeting the wrong thing about the wrong person just might land you in prison. That’s what happened…
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Black Twitter, Let's Make Some Noise!
(The Root) — The Chatterati is The Root’s new tool that uses a unique algorithm to highlight the tweets of some of the most influential African-American Twitter users, displaying up-to-the-minute topics, retweets and hashtags driving the conversation among blacks on the social network. Here’s where you come in. We’d like you to share a message and…
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