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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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Twitter Mourns the Loss of Lena Horne — Again
(The Root) — Three years after her death, citizens of Twitter are apparently still mourning the loss of legendary singer and actress Lena Horne. Horne began her career as a dancer at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem. From there she would become a famous actress, singer and nightclub performer. Later in life she became…
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Home Depot Awards HBCU Oakwood University with $50k Makeover
Many of the 106 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are in need of major renovations in order to remain competitive and attract top talent. The Home Depot recognized this need, and responded by providing help through a campus-improvement grant program called Retool Your School. This program, now in its fourth year, provides aid to…
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