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Watch: My Black History: Michael Eric Dyson on How MLK’s Assassination Opened His Eyes
Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…
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Trump Called Out on Lack of Diversity
“In his first two weeks, President Trump has sought to project the image of a new leader moving quickly to enact his agenda,” David Nakamura and Abby Phillip reported Sunday for the Washington Post. “He has surrounded himself in photo ops with his most trusted senior aides as he signs a flurry of executive orders,…
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Watch: The Root Celebrates the Young, Fabulous and Female in New Orleans
The Root started Black History Month in New Orleans with our signature Young, Fabulous and Female event! This event’s theme was #KnowTheUnknown and unlocking your potential. You can watch the recap of this special event here:
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Miffed, Tamron Hall Leaves Today, NBC
Tamron Hall, the first black woman to co-host “Today,” is leaving NBC and MSNBC despite a multimillion-dollar offer to stay and a pledge for an expanded role on other shows, official and unofficial sources said Wednesday. The network sought to replace Hall and co-host Al Roker, also a black journalist, on the “Today” show’s third…
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The Black Women of New Orleans Have Spoken: The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Event Slays
New Orleans is the perfect city to serve as the location for The Root’s latest Young, Fabulous and Female event. NOLA is so richly marinated in black culture and history, it’s hard to ignore it. It croons sultry jazz and stands tall in unbreakable resilience. And the professional women who reside there? Well, they exhibit…
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Watch: In Focus With Director Steven Caple Jr., Who’s Set to Write HBO’s Emmett Till Miniseries
Editor’s note: In Focus is a video series showcasing the new wave of black filmmakers. Steven Caple Jr. is the writer and director of The Land, a coming-of-age tale set in Cleveland that tells the stories of four teens who aspire to be professional skateboarders. It is Caple’s first feature and stars The Wire’s Michael…
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Some Journalists Feel Trump Ban Personally
Mohammed Al-Rawi’s passion for computers carried him through the war in Iraq all the way to the shores of California,” Marjorie Miller wrote in 2010 for a Fourth of July story in the Los Angeles Times.“His fluency in Windows and in English landed him a job with journalists, put him in the path of multiple…
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Today Hour 3: Kelly in; Roker, Hall Out
NBC intends to launch a new daytime show featuring former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, displacing black journalists Tamron Hall and Al Roker from the third hour of the “Today” show, according to reports Friday .Hall’s contract expires in February. That the contract of fellow black journalist Joy Reid, host of the weekend “AM Joy”…