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Damon Dash Drowning in Debt
Damon Dash, the former head of Roc-a-Fella Records with his old partner Jay-Z, is under water for more than $2 million, reports the Daily News. “I can’t touch my money. I can’t pay certain bills,” Dash said in a wide-ranging talk on Saturday. “But I’m still working every day. It’s not stopping me from hustling.…
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Celeb Moms Who Do It All
It’s Mother’s Day is the time to buy your mom flowers and make her breakfast in bed to say thanks for all the home cooked meals she made, the horrible macaroni art she hung on the fridge, and teacher-parent conferences she endured. It’s a dirty job — diapers and snotty noses and tears and skinned…
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Quote of the Day: Toni Cade Bambara
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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Is Janelle Monae Revealing Her Sexuality on New Song?
Some are saying that Janelle Monae might be talking about her own sexuality in her new song, “Q.U.E.E.N.” But writer Andreana Clay of Queer Black Feminist writes that she’d rather focus on Monae’s self-proclaimed status of being an oddball. Some have begun to speculate that this song may be about her (queer) sexuality, which may…
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Black Voter Turnout Is Up. Will That Persist?
(The Root) — Now that the government has confirmed that African Americans in 2012 voted at a higher rate than whites for the first time — and were the only group to boost its turnout — groups such as the NAACP are claiming credit. But Barack Obama has left the campaign trail. Without his name…
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Hey, White People, Here's How You're Racist
“Being white is pretty awesome,” writes lawyer Dawn Cutaia in the York Daily Record, saying that white folks don’t have to be part of the KKK to be racist. It can be as easy as laughing at a black person’s ethnic name or not hiring them because of it. You don’t have to be a…
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Celeb Moms Turned Health Advocates
Today, being a celebrity mom can be big business. There is already endless speculation about how much photos of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s child will sell for. But there are celebrity moms who have chosen to use their role in the public eye to do more than showcase how stylish their “mini mes” are.…
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Celeb Moms Turned Health Advocates
Keli Goff is The Root’s special correspondent. Follow her on Twitter. Today, being a celebrity mom can be big business. There is already endless speculation about how much photos of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s child will sell for. But there are celebrity moms who have chosen to use their role in the public eye to…
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Black People And Our Complicated Homophobia
Damon Young writes: 1. As I listened to Jason Collins and Oprah discuss the extra “stigma” of being gay and Black, I couldn’t help but wonder how true the “Blacks are more homophobic than everyone else” sentiment truly is. I think many of us—myself included—have said it so much that we’ve accepted it to be true, and since we’ve accepted…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
