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Top New York Daily News Editor Portrayed as Vengeful
Robert Moore Investigated in Harassment Claims Jemele Hill Leaving ‘SportsCenter’ for Undefeated NABJ Turns Down Facebook Scholarship Project HUD Official Sorry for Calling Ryan ‘Miss Piggy’ NPR Host Touts Alternative to CNN Shout Matches Short Takes HuffPost said Friday it had spoken to more than 20 current and former employees of the Daily News in…
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Judge of Characters: Inequality for All, Especially in Hollywood
While many people may have heard Mo’Nique’s “cries” about the gender and color bias in Hollywood and rolled their eyes, there were others of us who wholeheartedly agreed with her. Inequality reigns supreme in Hollywood. It’s the reason Jessica Chastain helped Octavia Spencer negotiate a higher salary. It’s the reason a very white Scarlett Johansson…
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Watch: Is Racism Turning Teens Into Smokers?
Racism is bad for you. Surprise! Honestly, most research that surfaces about the harmful effects of racism leaves the majority of us unimpressed and unsurprised. It’s been proved that experiencing racism is tied to stress, heart disease, pregnancy complications and probably everything else you can think of that can lead to death or a lower…
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Watch: Freed After 20 Years in Prison, but Now the Government Wants to Send Him Back
Matthew Charles was released in 2016 after being incarcerated for more than 20 years. But now the Justice Department wants to send him back to prison. In 1996 he was sentenced to 35 years to life for distribution of crack cocaine and possession of a firearm. After the Obama administration reduced the sentencing disparity between…
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Why Masturbation Is Good for You and Your Partners, Too
Ladies, when is the last time you had a really intense orgasm, and was it one you gave to yourself? Fellas, how often do you rub one out? Is it once or twice a week, or once or twice a day? I know when we were younger, the adults around us tried to discourage us…
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Black Top-Ranking Editor at New York Daily News Investigated for Sexual Harassment
NPR Prompts Questions About Robert Moore Dorothy Bland Stepping Down as Mayborn Dean Robert (Rob) Moore, who as head of news is the highest-ranking African American at the Daily News in New York, “has been accused of sexual harassment and is now under investigation by the paper’s parent company after inquiries by NPR,” David Folkenflik…
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Watch: Who Should 50 Cent Cast in Power Next?
If given the chance to shoot rapper-producer 50 Cent, what would you do? During press interviews for Den of Thieves, I asked 50 Cent and his co-stars, Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson and Pablo Schreiber, to show me their stellar acting skills. The result was a couple of iffy 50 Cent impersonations, and then 50 Cent…
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Sex Dolls: For the Emotionally and Sexually Lazy Man Who Wants to Get Off
Women are irreplaceable. It’s a simple fact, not an opinion. Without women, there would be no more civilization. That is just a basic argument that is easily defended, but the fact is, women add so much to society that it’s almost impossible to enumerate it all. Aesthetically, we are what cishet men want in all…
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Watch: Wait—Is the Women’s March for Women of Color, Too?
Women showed up and made their voices heard again at Women’s Marches across the country over the weekend. But The Root wanted to know whether the movement was truly inclusive. What brought young women of color out to the second annual Women’s March in Washington, D.C.? View some of the attendee responses in our video, above.