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  • P Diddy's Mysterious Announcement

    (The Root) — If there’s any overlap between fans of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, they will be very excited about the rap mogul’s big news today: He announced on Twitter that he’ll be joining the cast of the show as a series regular. Downton Abbey is a British…

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  • High Schooler Tweets His Way Into UCLA

    (The Root) — A high school senior is celebrating in Massachusetts this week after lobbying for acceptance to his dream school — online. When 18-year-old Bernie Zak was wait-listed after applying to UCLA, he didn’t want to wait; he wanted to “do something.” He took to Twitter with the intent of tweeting 50 reasons why…

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  • Is Wayne Brady Gonna Have to Choke a Bill?

    (The Root) — Comedian Wayne Brady wasn’t laughing during a HuffPost Live interview in which he discussed some shots sent his way by Bill Maher. Brady called Maher to task for questioning his blackness in a joke about President Obama’s street cred. Brady is no stranger to people coming at him for his “blackness,” or…

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  • The Most Hateful Tweets in America

    (The Root) — Think you live in an enlightened, progressive part of the country? Are you sure? Floating Sheep, a website “dedicated to mapping and analyzing user generated geocoded data,” is helping you figure it out. The site recently analyzed and geo-tagged 150,000 tweets that contained what they call “discriminatory speech” — racist, homophobic and…

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  • Sallie Mae Gets Taken to the Woodshed

    (The Root) — Reaching your 40th birthday is a huge milestone. Some may celebrate it with a quiet night with the family. Others may put on their good dancing shoes and hit the town with friends. Loan company Sallie Mae decided to celebrate quietly with a couple of tweets commemorating its 40th year, and rather than…

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  • Twitter Campaigns for the GOP

    (The Root) — If there’s one thing Twitter is good at, it’s starting death rumors about celebrities who haven’t died, and occasionally ones who have already died. If it’s good at anything else, it’s using smarts and satire to make fun of racist and otherwise oppressive things. That’s the treatment the Republican Party is getting…

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  • Doctor's Conviction Sparks Twitter Debate

    (The Root) — A verdict was reached and announced on Monday in the case of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. The Philadelphia doctor was arrested in January of this year and charged with the deaths of five people stemming from procedures performed in a reportedly filthy, unsanitary office dubbed a “house of horrors.” He was found…

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  • The Other Side of Mother

    (The Root) — On Sunday the Internet spent the day paying homage to mothers in honor of Mother’s Day, with folks tweeting inspiring stories and Instagramming pictures of their dear beloved maternal figures. Tales of Mom coming to the rescue, providing, sacrificing, kissing boo-boos — the usual. But the day before, people on Twitter were…

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  • Celeb Moms Who Do It All

    It’s Mother’s Day is the time to buy your mom flowers and make her breakfast in bed to say thanks for all the home cooked meals she made, the horrible macaroni art she hung on the fridge, and teacher-parent conferences she endured. It’s a dirty job — diapers and snotty noses and tears and skinned…

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  • Twitter Renames Chris Brown

    (The Root) — Chris Brown subtweeted Rihanna today, and Twitter turned it into an hour of hilarious wordplay. The two have been playing out their on-again/off-again romance on Twitter lately, following and unfollowing each other, leaving onlookers to speculate as to what is going on. This morning, Brown sent out a cryptic tweet that read…

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