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Watch: Husband-and-Wife Team Create Africa's 1st Brand of Foldable Flats
In 2012 Taffi Ayodele was working for a luxury brand in South Africa and had to attend many events in high heels. Being a true New Yorker, she kept a pair of foldable flats handy when she was on the go, and her African girlfriends were mesmerized by the concept. Her husband, J.G. Ayodele, did some…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Milestone: 4.5 Hours With the President
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic magazine writer, has managed a feat apparently accomplished by no other black journalist. He was granted 4½ hours on the record with President Obama, access he turned into a 17,000-word cover story for the January/February issue of the Atlantic. “Talked three times in person. Total of about 4.5 hours. No idea…
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Telling Our Truth in the Age of Trump
Brian Stelter, television critic for CNN Money, isn’t the only journalist sounding an alarm. “A question I asked on Sunday’s ‘Reliable Sources:’ he wrote in his email newsletter Sunday. “Is this a national emergency? And are journalists afraid to say so because they’re afraid they’ll sound partisan?” “Consider: A U.S. intelligence community conclusion that Russia…
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Watch: Trevor Noah on South African Apartheid, American Racism and What He Hopes to Offer the World
At the time he was born, Trevor Noah’s mere existence was a crime. The South African native grew up during apartheid—a bleak period in the nation’s past underscored by a white supremacist system intended to segregate and oppress the country’s nonwhite population. It was illegal for interracial couples to have intercourse. To say that Noah,…
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In Fla., ‘Prejudice Wears a Black Robe’
“Justice has never been blind when it comes to race in Florida,” Josh Salman, Emily Le Coz and Elizabeth Johnson reported this week for the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune in a series, “Bias on the Bench.” “Blacks were first at the mercy of slave masters. Then came Jim Crow segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. “Now,…
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The Root's manCODE and Young, Fabulous and Female Bring the Heat to Atlanta
Atlanta was taken by storm on Monday when The Root hosted manCODE and Young, Fabulous and Female at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead. Sponsored by Toyota, the evening was filled with rich conversation during two panel discussions with the theme “Shifting your focus.” “These are always great opportunities to come together to talk about issues that…
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2 Dozen Claim Racial Discrimination at CNN, TBS
“A new court filing alleges that Turner employees faced racial discrimination that held them back in their careers and led to at least one former assistant being fired,” Ronn Blitzer reported Wednesday for lawnewz.com. “Roughly two dozen current and former employees of CNN and TBS (both owned by Turner) claim that there is a systematic…
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The Root’s manCODE and Young, Fabulous and Female Events in Atlanta!
On Monday in Atlanta, The Root hosted two of our best events so far: manCODE and Young, Fabulous and Female. The night included an enjoyable cocktail hour, followed by two intriguing panels, and finished with an exciting after-party with a fantastic DJ. The feedback from both panels was overwhelmingly positive, and the night overall was…
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There Were ‘Cases of Guards Ripping Out Dreadlocks’
“The racism can be felt from the moment black inmates enter New York’s upstate prisons,” Michael Schwirtz, Michael Winerip and Robert Gebeloff reported Saturday for the New York Times. “They describe being called porch monkeys, spear chuckers and worse. There are cases of guards ripping out dreadlocks. One inmate, John Richard, reported that he was…