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Winehouse's Dad: Beyoncé 'Doesn't Bring Anything' to 'Back to Black'
Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch, is understandably feeling protective of his late daughter’s musical legacy — and he doesn’t think Beyoncé’s cover of “Back to Black” for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby does it justice. He said in a recent interview that the version, a partnership with André 3000, “doesn’t bring anything” to the song. Unfortunately,…
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Kerry Rhodes: Gay or Straight? Who Cares?
(The Root) — I said I wasn’t going to touch the “Kerry Rhodes drama.” If you stick to higher-end news sites, you have no idea what I’m talking about. If you occasionally find your way to urban-gossip sites to pass your lunch hour, then you know exactly what I’m referring to. See if you can…
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BlackStartup.com Helps Black Owned Businesses Secure Funding
While many aspiring and new African-American business owners have the passion and drive to get their company off the ground, there are overwhelming challenges that come to play once funding-time hits. A CB Insights report that tracked founders of 165 companies that had received a first round of venture funding during the first half of…
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At 'REBIRTH', NY Urban League's Young Professionals Raise Money for Education
Young professionals from all over the tri-state area on Saturday gathered at the Helen Mills Event Space in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan to celebrate the “elegance, opulence and glamour of the Harlem Renaissance,” and to raise money for the Whitney M. Young Scholarship Fund for high-achieving high school seniors. “REBIRTH!” the New York Urban…
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4 Top Financial Goals to Achieve Right Now
You might be in financial straits or planning for the future. Whatever the case may be, however dire your situation, here are a few things you need to be doing right now to open some doors: 1.) Savings/ Emergency Fund If you do not already have 8 months to 1 year of expenses saved, then…
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Free the Slaves — and Then What?
(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. This large, impressive painting, so redolent of the ideals of liberty and future prosperity, is rooted in a staunch…
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One Child's Story of Gun Violence
As politicians tussle over weapons legislation, the gunshots continue to fly in cities like Chicago, eventually landing on someone’s doorstep. Young Tania Williams writes at Ebony that after the first time she experienced a friend being shot, she couldn’t stop shaking. As my mom called the ambulance, she told me to get him some water,…
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Chicago Teen's Journey to the White House
(The Root) — When President Obama announced the first-ever White House Science Fair back in 2009, he said, “If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well, if you’re a young person and you’ve produced the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that achievement,…
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Quote of the Day: Paul Robeson
Read the entire 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. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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