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Iyanla and DMX: Entertainment or Exploitation?
In a piece for Clutch magazine, The Root’s contributing editor Demetria L. Lucas says the rapper clearly needs something, but it’s not for us to gawk and laugh at his situation. I don’t know exactly what is wrong with ol’ Earl “DMX” Simmons or what he needs. That’s over my head. But I know what…
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What Media Sex Appeal Means for Skylar Diggins
How things have changed in women’s basketball since the “nappy-headed hos” controversy. Colorlines‘ Jamilah King examines the media’s current fixation with the looks of the No. 3 pick in the WNBA draft. Six years ago, the biggest story in women’s basketball was about Don Imus calling the predominantly black Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed…
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Have Black Americans Left Baseball?
(The Root) — While the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 has become a certified success, attracting a diverse audience on its way to becoming No. 1 at the box office during its opening weekend, black Americans are still facing barriers to the baseball field. The opening of 42 occurred several days before the annual celebration of…
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Quote of the Day: Nannie Helen Burroughs
Read the 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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Why Don't Men Get Brokenhearted?
(The Root) — “Why is it always the women who are heartbroken and disappointed, as opposed to men?” —S.D. I’m unsure where this idea came from, but I’ve heard the assumption that “men don’t have feelings” enough to recognize that among some people, it’s a prevailing idea and one that couldn’t be further from the truth.…
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Georgia Teen Speaks Out on Integrated Prom
(The Root) — Seventeen-year-old Mareshia Rucker knows her mind and is not afraid to speak it. She’s one of the racially mixed group of student organizers who are putting together the first integrated prom at Wilcox County High School in Georgia, roughly a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Atlanta. She told The Root recently that the school,…
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Obama on Background-Check Vote: 'Shameful'
(The Root) — In a major defeat for supporters of tougher gun laws, the Senate voted today to reject a bipartisan proposal by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks on firearms sales. The final vote was 54 in favor to 46 opposed. Two Republicans joined most Democrats in supporting…
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Does 'Master Bedroom' Make You Think of Slavery?
Gawker is reporting on Wednesday that a survey of 10 major real estate developers in the Washington, D.C., area found that six no longer use the description “master bedroom” in the floor plans to describe the largest bedroom in the home. Why? Here’s their explanation: Because of negative associations with the word master — both…
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Apply for The Root Editorial Fellowship Program Today!
(The Root) — Is it your dream to have a cutting-edge journalism career? Are you an information hoarder with a wide-ranging news obsession — from gun control to the sequester to racism on Mad Men? Do you know who Desiline Victor is and why her story matters? Do you follow influencers on Twitter? Do you…
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No, Neither Asians nor Blacks All Look Alike
(The Root) — “I work in pharmaceutical sales in a territory that doesn’t have much racial diversity. Recently I greeted a young lady who works at one doctor’s office I visited with the wrong name. I’d confused her with the other Asian receptionist. She replied, ‘Oh, so we all look alike?’ or something to that…
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