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'Anything but Black' in the Dominican Republic
Certain Dominicans are willing to claim any race but black. In this installment of Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special Black in Latin America, learn how some use the term indio “to negate [their] African ancestry.”
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2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner: The Red Carpet
The Root was on the red carpet at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Anji Corley chatted with Gayle King, Russell Simmons, Cee-Lo and the butt of the night’s jokes — Donald Trump himself. See what he had to say when asked if he really has designs on Obama’s job.
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Obama Chides Media for Birther Story
President Releases Birth Certificate “There comes a moment in almost every American presidency when the commander in chief turns media critic in chief,” David Folkenflik reported Wednesday for NPR. “For President Obama, that moment occurred Wednesday morning. He released his birth certificate to quell persistent rumors that he was somehow not born in this country…
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Obama Chides Media for Birther Story
President Releases Birth Certificate “There comes a moment in almost every American presidency when the commander in chief turns media critic in chief,” David Folkenflik reported Wednesday for NPR. “For President Obama, that moment occurred Wednesday morning. He released his birth certificate to quell persistent rumors that he was somehow not born in this country…
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ABC Gives Birther Allegations Free Ride
Amanpour Fails to Challenge Franklin Graham Assertions ABC-TV’s Christiane Amanpour gave a prominent Easter Sunday platform to the “birther” views of the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist the Rev. Billy Graham, failing to correct him when he claimed that President Obama had not produced his birth certificate. Graham also questioned whether Obama was…
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Black in Latin America: Cuba's Racism Problem
Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special, it’s clear that “racism of the heart” is still very much alive. Find out how the struggle against it is being waged under a system in which, as Gates notes, “Declaring that racism…
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At NABJ, Unity Dispute Leads to Misstep
The fallout over this month’s decision by the National Association of Black Journalists to withdraw from the Unity coalition took a contentious turn Thursday after members learned that Kathy Y. Times, president of the association, had suspended John Yearwood, an NABJ representative on the Unity board, from the association’s listserve. Yearwood, who is world editor…
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Melvin Van Peebles: The Baadasssss Interview
In 1971, filmmaker-musician-dramatist-commodities trader Melvin Van Peebles launched a movie revolution with his über-low-budget, highly political indie flick, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. Sweetback was the largest-grossing independent film of its time, featuring cinema’s first ghetto hero, played by Van Peebles himself. Today he’s written a graphic novel, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha, and plays regular…