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New Art-School Grad Has Already Landed New Yorker Cover
Loveis Wise Is in Rare Company Seeing No Diversity, Philly Papers Drop Ad Agency Harold Jackson Leaving Philadelphia for Houston Report on Massive Puerto Rico Toll Overshadowed Outrage Builds on Separation of Families Spanish Again the Most Polarizing Language in U.S. ‘We . . . Got the George Takei Assault Wrong’ ‘Asian American’ at 50:…
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This Baker, Entrepreneur and Mother Is Fighting for Section 8 Tenants to Be Able to Use Medical Cannabis
Editor’s note: This story was previously published on EstroHaze, a multimedia company highlighting the business and lifestyles of multicultural women in the cannabis industry. Six years ago, Uneeda Nichols of Washington, D.C., struggled to lead a normal life. She suffered from painful physical and mental ailments, and her regimen of pharmaceutical treatments came with the…
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Brown Girl Surf Wants to Change Surf Culture
Images of black and brown women are not the first thing that come to mind when one thinks of surf culture. The Oakland, Calif.-based organization called Brown Girl Surf challenges that by simply inviting women of color to dive into the water. “The goal of Brown Girl Surf is to change surf culture,” says Marlim…
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Was the Starbucks Anti-Bias Training a Fail or Nah?
On Tuesday, Starbucks closed 8,000 of its locations for anti-bias training. The training is a response to the nationwide uproar following an incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks, in which an employee called the police on two black men for allegedly loitering. But was the training a fail or nah? “You can’t fix racial inequality, 400-plus…
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Black People Created Memorial Day—Literally
Memorial Day is here. Think barbecues, lemonade. A precious three-day weekend full of sun, sales and slacking off. But this is The Root, and you know there’s another part of this story. Little-known fact: African Americans created Memorial Day. Rewind to the end of the Civil War. In 1865, Charleston, S.C., was in ruins, and…
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NFL No-Knee Rule Blasted as Slap at Blacks
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