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Abercrombie & Fitch Hates Fat People?
Preppy retailer Abercrombie & Fitch refuses to sell clothes for women who wear a size large and above, despite statistics showing that the average American wears larger sizes, reports Business Insider. This is the same company that’s faced criticism for T-shirt slogans that many Asian Americans found racist back in 2002. While a specialty retailer…
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Twitter Renames Chris Brown
(The Root) — Chris Brown subtweeted Rihanna today, and Twitter turned it into an hour of hilarious wordplay. The two have been playing out their on-again/off-again romance on Twitter lately, following and unfollowing each other, leaving onlookers to speculate as to what is going on. This morning, Brown sent out a cryptic tweet that read…
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John Legend Sells Success
(The Root) — John Legend unleashed the video for his latest single, “Who Do We Think Are?” this week. We chatted with him about the risk-taking, decadency- and luxury-celebrating message of the new music, which will be appearing on his upcoming fourth studio album, Love in the Future, and asked him whether the backlash against…
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Lessons Mom Can Teach About Money
Tiffany Aliche, writing at the Huffington Post, highlights everyday parenting messages that can be translated into financial advice. Lesson 1) Clean-Up Your Mess: [Whose] mother hasn’t chastised them about cleaning up their room? Many of us with cluttered rooms as kids, are now money-messy adults. We have no budget, no system for saving or paying…
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Keep Up the Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking
In a piece for the Huffington Post, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett says that we’ve made great progress on this issue, but we still have a long way to go. Yesterday, I was honored to attend the 7th Annual Pearls of Purpose Gala hosted by FAIRgirls. FAIR stands for Free, Aware, Inspired, and Restored,…
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Unlikely News-Making Black Heroes
(The Root) — When Charles Ramsey heroically saved three missing women who were held captive in a Cleveland home this week, the Internet erupted: How could Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michelle Knight be trapped for a decade without being noticed? How was Ramsey so brave that he was the one person who heard Berry’s…
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Quote of the Day: Shirley Chisholm
Read more of The Root’s coverage of Shirley Chisholm 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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Happy Mother's Day! Your Daughter Is Gay
Clutch magazine‘s Kimberley McLeod chronicles a revelation about her sexual orientation and an evolving relationship with her mother. My relationship with my mother has evolved over the last few decades. We have grown close to grow apart again to become best friends. As our relationship has morphed and matured, so have her views on me…
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Obama on Health Care: Don't Be Bamboozled
(The Root) — In an event timed to coincide with this weekend’s Mother’s Day holiday, President Obama delivered remarks on Friday touting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act while joined onstage by women and families who had stories about how they’d benefited from the health care legislation, which was signed into law just over…
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Twitter Watches 'Scandal'
(The Root) — Per usual, ABC’s Scandal had everyone on Twitter in a tizzy last night. With one more episode left in this season, the suspense is building and tensions were running high as everyone finally found out the identity of the mole. Scandal’s cast was watching and tweeting along with the rest of the…
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