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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.
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Walt Swanston-NuevaEspana, Diversity Champion, Dies
For Decades, a Go-to Person on Inclusion Efforts Visiting Press Groups Alarmed by Climate in U.S. Washington Post Sets Out to Find ‘What Unites Us’ Post-Gazette Won’t Run Dissents From Newsroom ‘Is This Norway?’ Asks Member of the Twitterverse About Axios In U.S., Supremacists Are the Extremists to Watch Short Takes Walterene Swanston-NuevaEspana, a decades-long…
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Watch: The Chi Brings Black Joy, Says Actress Tiffany Boone
Actress Tiffany Boone gets satisfaction from showing the humanity of Chicagoans. “I think people think of Chicago as a super-dangerous place. These are human beings. Nobody wants to kill someone just to kill someone,” the up-and-coming actress told The Root. Boone plays Jerrika, a natural-hair beauty from the “right” side of the tracks, in Lena…