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Watch: Angela Bassett Fights for Her Sweetheart
Legendary actress Angela Bassett hopes to raise awareness of the connection between Type 2 diabetes and heart disease with her campaign For Your Sweetheart. Her mother, Betty Jane Bassett, was diabetic and passed away from heart disease in 2014. Since then, Angela Bassett has been working steadily to raise awareness. Heart disease is the most…
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Watch: Female Artists Take Their Fight Against Bigotry on the Road
Three women of color—Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Jessica Sabogal and Melinda James—traveled from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, N.M., to fight what in America is becoming the new normal. And they are using their art to fight back. From May 23 to June 5, the women took a road trip, stopping specifically in small towns to make murals…
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Watch: Meet the Sculptor Whose Work Immortalizes Biggie
What’s nearly 100 pounds and made out of 7,000 sheets of paper? If you guessed a sculpture of one of the greatest rappers of all time, you’d be correct. Let’s talk about the Notorious B.I.G. Influenced by Biggie’s music, Cuban-American artist Felix Semper created a sculpture of the legendary rapper, which took him three months…
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‘Trump to Pittsburgh: Drop Dead’
Line in Climate-Change Speech Turned on Its Head Ebony Pledges to Pay Writers in 30 Days ‘Mission Accomplished’ as NABJ Touts Turnaround Jefferson Named CBS News V.P. of Operations Nooses, Painted ‘N-Word’ Add to Hateful Week $150,000 to Train Investigative Journalists Dallas Paper Wants Details in Ambush of Police N.Y. Times Public Editor Departs With…
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Watch: Judge of Characters, The Root’s New Digital Show About the Best (and Messiest) of Black Twitter
At this point, we know the power of black Twitter. We set trends, we get folks fired and we are side-crampingly hilarious. So we figured, why don’t we dig into the black Twitter crates each week and serve up the best and messiest 140 characters we can find? Bonus: These tweets are usually about the…
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Watch: 3 Myths About Gun Violence
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for black men and boys ages 15 to 34 in the United States. Community activists have been organizing against gun violence for decades, and there is still so much to be done. But there are a lot of misconceptions about how gun violence really affects black communities…
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#EbonyStillOwes: Writers Union Intervenes
Magazine ‘Treats Folks Like Sharecroppers’ Fewer Cries of Alarm Over Far-Right U.S. Terrorists N.Y. Times Eliminates Public Editor Position Scott Pelley Out at ‘CBS Evening News’ Memes Make Fun of Tiger Woods’ Misfortune How to Tell Who’s Serious About Diversity Hispanic Caucus Members to Visit Deported Vets Leaked Papers Reveal Surveillance at Standing Rock Nominate…
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Watch: Star of Broadway’s Aladdin Keeps Getting His Wishes Granted With New Roles in Hamilton
James Monroe Iglehart won the Tony in 2014 for his role as the Genie in Broadway’s Aladdin. Earlier this year, he moved on to join the cast of Hamilton, where he plays both the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, roles that earned original cast member Daveed Diggs both a Tony and a Grammy. Iglehart…
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The Carmichael Show Is Back, and Jerrod Carmichael Says It Will Continue Confronting Black Conversations You Don’t See on TV
The Carmichael Show is easily one of the best black shows on television right now. It stars its namesake and creator, Jerrod Carmichael, as a son, brother and fiance who is not only opinionated but often finds himself in the crossfire of the even stronger opinions of his family. In the first two seasons, we…
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Sportswriter Fired After Anti-Japanese Tweet
Terry Frei ‘Uncomfortable’ With Indy 500 Winner Woods Arrest a Gift for New Sports Columnist Lantigua-Williams Leaving NPR ‘Code Switch’ Europeans Say They Find Trump Unstable Trump Budget Would Gut Civil Rights Programs In Monuments Debate, What About the Indians? At ESPN, ‘Role Was Changing Seemingly Every Year’ Reporter’s Scary Ride Nets a Million Views…