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Quote of the Day: Geneva Smitherman
Learn more about Geneva Smitherman 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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That Time Snoop Ran an Actual Brothel
(The Root) — Nothing should surprise me about rapper Snoop Dogg — or, er, Snoop Lion, as he recently rebranded himself in what seems to be a midlife crisis. This is a man who launched his career 20 years ago with an album cover for the now-classic Doggystyle that featured an image of a hybrid…
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Meet the Anti-Violence Blogger Shot in New Orleans
Brentin Mock writes at Colorlines about journalist and documentarian Deborah “Big Red” Cotton, who has expressed her concern about New Orleans violence and also her compassion and love for black men in the city, who are too often the perpetrators and victims of that violence. Journalist and documentarian Deborah “Big Red” Cotton was one of…
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The Story Behind 'Fruitvale Station'
Slate‘s Aisha Harris predicts that the film about the last day in the life of Oscar Grant — who was fatally shot by a police officer in Oakland, Calif. — will be both powerful and unsettling. Shot on location in Oakland, Fruitvale Station, the feature debut of director Ryan Coogler, takes place on the last…
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Twitter Campaigns for the GOP
(The Root) — If there’s one thing Twitter is good at, it’s starting death rumors about celebrities who haven’t died, and occasionally ones who have already died. If it’s good at anything else, it’s using smarts and satire to make fun of racist and otherwise oppressive things. That’s the treatment the Republican Party is getting…
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Doctor's Conviction Sparks Twitter Debate
(The Root) — A verdict was reached and announced on Monday in the case of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. The Philadelphia doctor was arrested in January of this year and charged with the deaths of five people stemming from procedures performed in a reportedly filthy, unsanitary office dubbed a “house of horrors.” He was found…
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Kermit Gosnell Found Guilty
Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has been convicted on three counts of first-degree murder for severing the spinal cords of infants born during abortions at his clinic, and one count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, the Washington Post reports. Prosecutors described the clinic as a “house of horrors” because of…
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Mr. President, Get a Handle on the Scandals
(The Root) — Last week, with the Dow Jones industrial average breaking 15,000, war raging in Syria, a guilty verdict in the Jodi Arias trial and nearly round-the-clock coverage of the (mercifully) found victims of the Cleveland kidnappings, House Republicans were fighting an uphill battle to make a splash with committee hearings on the Sept.…
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Obama on IRS: 'Outrageous'
(The Root) — A week after the Internal Revenue Service admitted to deliberately targeting for heightened scrutiny groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their name, President Obama used a news conference this morning to call the practice “outrageous” and to announce that he “will not tolerate it.” “This is pretty straightforward,” he said at…
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The Other Side of Mother
(The Root) — On Sunday the Internet spent the day paying homage to mothers in honor of Mother’s Day, with folks tweeting inspiring stories and Instagramming pictures of their dear beloved maternal figures. Tales of Mom coming to the rescue, providing, sacrificing, kissing boo-boos — the usual. But the day before, people on Twitter were…
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