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Michelle Obama to Attend Hadiya Pendleton's Funeral
First lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral service of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old girl who was shot and killed last week in Chicago shortly after performing at President Obama’s second inauguration as a majorette in her high school’s marching band, the Chicago Tribune reports. The president’s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will also…
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Ailey Dancer Says Farewell After 30-Year Career
Alvin Ailey dancer says farewell after 30-year career: Renee Robinson is in the midst of her final performances with the famous African-American dance company, including as the iconic lady with the white parasol in Ailey’s famed Revelations. White House agrees to share drone memo: Under pressure from lawmakers who hold in their hands the fate…
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Stars Shine at Essence Black Women in Music
(The Root) — It’s Grammy week, and there are more parties in Los Angeles than there are traffic jams. The 4th Annual Essence Black Women in Music event was the place to be Wednesday night as the magazine and its title sponsor, Lincoln, saluted breakthrough artists Lianne La Havas and Solange Knowles at Greystone Manor…
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Testing Highlighted on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
(The Root) — Feb. 7 is the 13th anniversary of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which was created to bring greater attention to the devastating impact of HIV in African-American communities. Indeed, NBHAAD is a time to act to ensure progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Donna McCree, associate director for health equity at the…
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Did Beyoncé Get a Nose Job, and Should We Care?
If you’d already been deemed the “most beautiful woman in the world,” wouldn’t you want to focus on maintaining rather than changing your appearance? We’d think so, but that line of reasoning isn’t stopping rumors that Beyoncé “debuted a new nose” at her Super Bowl halftime performance. What started with fans comparing pictures has turned…
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Obama: 'My Daughters Are Gorgeous Because My Wife Is'
At the annual National Prayer Breakfast, the president typically delivers an address on how religion and spirituality shape his life and American culture. At the event Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., he opened his remarks with informal and personal comments responding to a previous speaker’s praise of images of his family on Inauguration Day. “My daughters…
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Why Would This Black Man Wear a KKK Hood?
When a black man dresses in a Ku Klux Klan robe and parades around Philadelphia’s Center City, the references to The Boondocks’ animated self-hating white supremacist, Uncle Ruckus, practically write themselves. But 35-year-old Sixx King says that his intentionally provocative display is actually a pro-African-American effort to highlight “black-on-black crime” by placing it in the…
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On Guns, Conservatives Rewrite and Disrespect Black History
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. dismantles and dismisses an argument by conservatives that there might not have been a need for the civil rights movement if blacks had had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense. Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. “If a lot of African-Americans back…
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Does an Online Degree Measure Up?
(Special to The Root) — “How do you feel about the emergence of nontraditional education like online and hybrid programs? How do African Americans fare in these programs?” —Dacia Genise Cobb I think the growth of online or “distance” learning is a very positive development and comes at an important time. A college education is…
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Hadiya Pendleton's Funeral: No Easy Answer for Obama
Writing at his website, Earl Ofari Hutchinson weighs in on the debate surrounding whether President Obama should attend the funeral of the 15-year-old girl who was gunned down on the South Side of Chicago soon after performing at his inaugural festivities. The clamor continues for President Obama to attend the funeral of 15 year old…
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