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What's Happening to Diddy's Fortune? Here's What We Know

What’s Happening to Diddy’s Fortune? Here’s What We Know

He was once on the way to billionaire status. Now, Diddy's net worth and his reputation has taken a drop.
After Three Open-Heart Surgeries, This Black Father Discovered an Unusual Cure

After Three Open-Heart Surgeries, This Black Father Discovered an Unusual Cure

Donnie Seals, Sr. and his son, Eric share a transformational trip in a PBS documentary
New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks are <i>Pissed</i>

New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks are Pissed

Yes, it's exactly what you think it is. And yes, you should be offended.
'Hey Google' and Other Voice Assistants Are Terrifying Children and Confusing Bemused Parents

‘Hey Google’ and Other Voice Assistants Are Terrifying Children and Confusing Bemused Parents

Social media is buzzing about the strange reaction kids are having to smart speakers in
  • Meet Our Future: 25 Young Black Innovators

    They hail from Oxnard, Calif., to Portland, Maine, and several spots in between. They are scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and agents of social change. The Root’s 2012 Young Futurists are our future. After a nationwide search, The Root’s staff selected these 25 African-American innovators, ages 16 to 22, for its second annual list. This year’s Young…

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    5 More Latino Journalists Flown to Israel

    Jewish Group Sees Chance to Influence Hispanics Five Latino journalists returned last week from an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel in another bid by an American Jewish group to influence the United States’ growing Latino population. “We welcome to Israel a group of prestigious journalists, publishers and reporters from the U.S. Hispanic Community,” proclaimed the New…

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    A 'Red Tail' Salutes the Black Press

    Tuskegee Airman Recalls Role of the Black Press Black journalists received a salute from a spokesman for the Tuskegee Airmen Thursday night when Dr. Roscoe Brown told the National Association of Black Journalists, “It was black journalists that brought us to the attention of the black community throughout the country during the time we were…

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    Washington Post Focus on Black Women

    In Poll, Career Success Trumps Having Children, Romance “Black women are far more likely than white women to place importance on career success and are less inclined to focus on having children or being in a romantic relationship, according to a new, nationwide survey by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation,” the Post…

  • 'Roots' Star: Racial Discourse 'Like 1950s'

    Thirty-five years ago, the television miniseries Roots cracked open the national dialogue about race with its searing portrayal of life before and during slavery for several generations in African-American writer Alex Haley’s family. Is America as honest about the way we discuss race today? One of Roots’ stars, Leslie Uggams, spoke with The Root’s editor-in-chief,…

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    Gossip Sites Lose, News Numbers Rise

    Visitors to African American-oriented websites upended the pecking order in December, according to the comScore Inc. research company, ending the long run of the lurid gossip site MediaTakeOut.com as champion eyeball magnet. That distinction, for now, goes to the website of Black Entertainment Television. Moreover, the newsier sites HuffPost BlackVoices, theGrio.com, theRoot.com, Essence.com and NewsOne,…

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    George Curry Group Buys Heart & Soul

    Sandra Guzman, Formerly of Latina, Named Editor-in-Chief A group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry has purchased Heart & Soul, a health-and-wellness magazine targeting African Americans, and named former Latina magazine editor-in-chief Sandra Guzman its top editor as part of an effort to broaden its focus. “Racial and ethnic minorities constituted 91.7 percent of…

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    NPR Loses Another Black Male Voice

    Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…

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    Abu-Jamal Off Death Row, in the Hole

    Mumia Abu-Jamal, the onetime president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists who became an international symbol of opposition to the death penalty, is being subjected to “worse” prison conditions today than when he was on death row, his supporters say. Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, was liberated from…

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    Day of Reckoning for Pat Buchanan

    MSNBC to Decide Whether to Return Commentator to Air After years of complaints that commentator Pat Buchanan’s diatribes were racist and anti-Semitic, MSNBC is ready to make a decision about whether to return Buchanan to the air. “Pat and I are going to meet soon and a decision will be made,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin…