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Back to Africa: Twitter Chief Jack Dorsey Plans to Live in Africa in 2020
Jack Dorsey has designs on the Motherland. The Twitter boss recently embarked on a whirlwind tour of Africa and has plans to live there in the new year. “Sad to be leaving the continent…for now,” Dorsey tweeted Wednesday. “Africa will define the future (especially the bitcoin one!). Not sure where yet, but I’ll be living…
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NFL Superstar and Super Bowl Champ Richard Sherman Pays Off School’s Cafeteria Debt
Richard Sherman was already Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl superstar but now the NFL baller is a superhero for young students who’ve had trouble paying for meals at school. The San Francisco 49ers cornerback wrote out a personal check worth $7,491.27 to clear Cabrillo Middle School in Santa Clara’s outstanding cafeteria bill. “On Saturday, November 23rd,…
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Black Excellence, Opulence, Decadence: Celebrating 10 Years of The Root 100
“How do you live out your black excellence?” I enjoyed listening to all of the interviewees’ responses to my question as I hosted the green carpet event for the 2019 Root 100 gala. Some furrowed their brows before answering, others took a beat, while my favorites shot back, “great question!” At events like The Root…
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Black Friday: A Special Rite of Passage With My Black Family
I’m not always the fondest of turkey, but I always look forward to shopping on Black Friday. Although the day after Thanksgiving is often reduced to “capitalist consumption for the un-woke masses,” it has become a favorite family tradition of time spent with two women I love, my mom and aunt. It always includes a…
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New York Jets Sign Nat King Cole's Grandson Wyatt Ray to Practice Squad
The New York Jets signed Wyatt Ray to its practice squad this week. Ray is the 23-year-old grandson of the late entertainment pioneer Nat King Cole and nephew of the Grammy Award-winning chanteuse Natalie Cole. Ray’s mother Casey and aunt Timolin are twin younger sisters of the legendary singer. According to the Associated Press, the…
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How a Black Family Talks About Impeachment During Thanksgiving
Whoever said politics don’t belong at the dinner table has never been to a black Thanksgiving. With food, family and maybe a sip of something, very few topics are out of bounds at my Aunt Sara’s house. Like my mom, Aunt Sara is from Tuskegee, Ala. A child of the civil rights movement, her activism…
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Mo Money, Mo Problems: Life Expectancy Rates in the US Drop for the 3rd Consecutive Year
According to a new report, life expectancy rates in the United States have dropped for the third consecutive year. The report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and cites the escalation of suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease, and dozens of other causes as contributing factors, per the Washington Post: Despite spending…
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Family Members, Ranked
As Black Thanksgiving quickly approaches, it may be necessary for some people who are unfamiliar with this holiday to understand black genealogy. In black culture, the family dynamic is not dictated by genetics, DNA or blood. Instead, much like race, “family” is a social construct. To help our readers understand this subject, we assembled a…
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Chilling Video Shows What a Young Michigan Woman Saw Just Moments Before Her Boyfriend Allegedly Shot Her
You may not know India Mackey (in fact, chances are you don’t), but you know exactly what the young Michigan woman saw in the moments before her death. We know because she filmed it: She, in the driver’s seat of her boyfriend’s van on Nov. 19, her phone trained on her 18-year-old boyfriend, Kevin Dixon,…