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Please Stop Assuming All Blacks Are Christian
(The Root) — “I’m so frustrated. Just because I’m black/African American doesn’t mean I’m Christian. I was raised in a home where we attended church, but during college I decided to officially call myself an atheist. Yet other black people are constantly assuming that I have a ‘church home’ or saying they will pray for…
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Today's Non-News: Man Won't Date Black Women
(The Root) — A story about a Texas man who wants to marry anyone but a black woman is causing a bit of a buzz today. It centers on Austin wedding photographer Larry Busby’s poorly written expression of that position on his website. His words are blunt, bordering on hateful. I will not date a…
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Talking Her Out of Skin Bleaching Won't Work
(The Root) — “I have a cousin who’s lived here in the United States for a few years, although, like me, she is Nigerian. (My family moved here when I was younger.) She is becoming well adjusted to American life in my opinion, with the exception of one practice from home that she still clings…
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Sex Trafficking's Black and Brown Victims
(The Root) — “He’d take wooden bats and hit me. I thought he loved me, but he’d turn around and beat me and all the girls in his house. But you just can’t get up and leave. He would threaten me about my family… I was afraid of getting hurt, so I just stayed.” The…
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Emmy Awards 2013: Stars on the Red Carpet
The 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards celebration was held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. The Root has a recap of the hottest black stars to walk the red carpet. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Empowering Young Black Men: Watch Live
(The Root) — Do young black men know that people want to see them at the table making decisions about their communities? Do young black men know that society wants to see them do well and values their contributions to the world? Do young black men feel empowered and excited about their futures? The death…
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Can a Racist Grandpa Raise a Biracial Kid?
( The Root ) — “My dad has recently become much more conservative. He now says things like, Obama isn’t American, he is a Muslim, he hates whites, he might be the anti-Christ, he is unfit as president, he is a buffoon, etc. Outside of Obama, he complains about how welfare is being taken advantage of by…
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Adoption of Black Children by Overseas Families on the Rise
The number of African-American children adopted by foreign parents who live outside the United States is steadily rising, according to a CNN report. For some birth mothers, part of the appeal is that their child will get the opportunity to grow up in an exotic overseas location. And for others, there is the perception that…
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Bring on More Black Blame, Obama
(The Root) — Last week, in his remarks commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, President Obama did what many would argue has become a signature move in his speeches to black audiences: In the midst of a professorial history recap featuring paragraphs of his characteristic soaring rhetoric, he slipped in several hundred…
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