A Fan Wanted a Photo With One of His Favorite Rappers, Who Instead Takes Him Hostage
Foolish Black TikTokers Claim Harriet Tubman Wasn’t Real, But Here’s The Truth
Black Sex In The City Characters We Loved
Internet is Furious Over Gilbert Arenas’ Shady, Hilarious Description of Karl-Anthony Towns’ Juicy Hips
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Media Discover "Framed," Imprisoned Sisters
2 in Mississippi Serving Double-Life Over $11 Robbery A black nationalist website was onto the case early. Then there were more websites and the muckraking magazine Mother Jones. A talk-show voice on CNN, a local black radio station and the syndicated The Michael Baisden Show joined the mix, as did the NAACP and the Innocence…
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Global Africa Project Artists Discuss Their Work
Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan came to life in vivid African style last week with the grand opening of an even grander art exhibition, “The Global Africa Project,” at the Museum of Arts and Design. Hundreds of artists, art lovers and well-heeled lovers of the African Diaspora ran between raindrops to get a peek at…
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First Lady Has 'Girlfriends' Over to See 'For Colored Girls'
When the showing of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls” ended Tuesday evening at the White House, first lady Michelle Obama got up and told the 50 guests she hoped they enjoyed it. But those who had come from around the country to share the experience “were just sitting there. I don’t think they knew how…
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Beyond Fame With Marsha Ambrosius
The term “baller” just got a face-lift from Marsha Ambrosius, the beauty who’s running game in the music industry and burning up the charts with her hit single “Hope He Cheats on You.” Contributing Editor Anji Corley caught up with the singer, formerly of the duo Floetry, backstage at this month’s For Sisters Only concert,…
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Johnson Publishing Sells Historic Headquarters
College to Own First Black-Owned Building in Chicago’s Loop Johnson Publishing Co. has sold its historic building on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue to Columbia College Chicago, the company announced on Tuesday. It has not yet selected a new home and is to remain in the building for 18 months. “The sale of 820 S. Michigan is…
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NPR Confronts Fallout From Williams Affair
NPR’s board of directors has approved hiring a law firm to review the network’s handling of the termination of Juan Williams’ contract, and the network has taken steps to address concerns raised by journalists of color. NPR has hired a second African American on-air reporter, Alex P. Kellogg of the Wall Street Journal, plans to make up for…
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The Root Video: Henry Louis Gates and Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson spent 10 years and interviewed more than 1,500 people to write The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, her magnificent opus on the flight of 6 million African Americans from the South to the North and West. Wilkerson has challenged long-standing assumptions that blacks moved simply for economic…
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Will Black Boys Have Skills to Be Journalists?
Report Calls Underachievement a “National Catastrophe” “Black males continue to perform lower than their peers throughout the country on almost every indicator,” according to a new report from the Council of the Great City Schools, which calls itself “the only national organization exclusively representing the needs of urban public schools.” Its report, released Tuesday, is…
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Hatin' on 'Colored Girls'
After Perry Film Debut, Writers Compete for One-Liners The hatin’ on Tyler Perry’s film “For Colored Girls” was so intense that Ronda Racha Penrice, writing on theGrio.com, had to find solace in the opening weekend’s box office take: “Negative reviews from respected film critics like The Hollywood Reporter’s Kirk Honeycutt, who proclaimed Tyler Perry’s For…
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Beyond Fame With Cornel West
Anji Corley, contributing editor for The Root, goes Beyond Fame in an interview with celebrity scholar Cornel West this week, chatting with the celebrity scholar about his new public radio show with Tavis Smiley called Smiley & West, where single black women can find a good man, and whether or not Jay-Z is his homeboy.…