Wise Words From Nelson Mandela That Hit Harder Than Ever, In Honor of His Death Anniversary
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Why the Netflix Diddy Doc Has Everyone Furious at This Black Woman Juror From the Trial
Halle Berry Trashes the Idea of Gavin Newsom as President For One Crucial Reason
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New York Times' Black Women Alums Hail Changes
The appointment of Jill Abramson and Dean Baquet as the top two news executives at the New York Times was hailed by black women who have worked at the Times Friday as they recalled past battles waged at the paper by women and African Americans. Eight black women — current and former Times employees —…
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Abramson, Baquet Rise at New York Times
Jill Abramson and Dean Baquet — a white woman and a black man — will lead the newsroom of the New York Times, the newspaper announced on Thursday, reporting that Abramson, a former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief, will become the paper’s executive editor, and Baquet, the Washington bureau chief, will become the new…
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Welcome to Our Roots Section
The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., introduces our Roots section, where you can get advice on researching your family history.
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Where Is the Gil Scott-Heron Documentary?
Since the death of spoken word musician Gil Scott-Heron on Friday, more than one post-Boomer – Scott-Heron was 62 – confessed online that the so-called “godfather of rap” was unknown to them. Savvy television producers might rush to fill the vacuum by obtaining a 2003 documentary from the BBC, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,”…
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Hollywood Family Reunions: A Video Mashup
Remember when Tupac and Janet Jackson crashed that picnic in Poetic Justice? How about Martin and Gina’s wedding? Watch some of the best family-reunion moments Hollywood has to offer. Click here for more of The Root’s summer family-reunion content.
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Tina Turner's Ancestral Legacy
In an episode of African-American Lives that originally aired on PBS in 2009, Tina Turner learns about her family’s origins as sharecroppers.
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Gil Scott-Heron Had Sights on the Media
Gil Scott-Heron might not have been a journalist, but the poet and musician was sure enough a social commentator who could “make it sing,” and his subjects included the media. His most quoted piece was “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Perhaps it was fitting that news of his death in New York spread virally…
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Where Did All the Black Journalists Go?
Was It a “Reverse Migration”? American daily newspapers lost 13,500 newsroom jobs from 2007 to 2010, according to the American Society of News Editors. In 2008 alone, employment for nearly 400 black journalists vanished. The next year, newsroom jobs held by black journalists were slashed by an unprecedented 19.2 percent, nearly 6 percentage points higher…
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Fox News Chief Pushing N.J. Gov. Christie
A lengthy cover story in New York magazine makes the argument that Roger Ailes, who heads Fox News, badly wants to play Republican kingmaker for the 2012 presidential election and that his ideal candidate is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. “A few months ago, Ailes called Chris Christie and encouraged him to jump into the…
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Arnold's Ex-Housekeeper Loses Anonymity
“In reporting the ongoing fallout from Schwarzenegger’s affair with the former housekeeper who gave birth to his child, has the press unduly invaded the privacy of Schwarzenegger’s one-time paramour?” Joe Pompeo wrote Thursday for Yahoo. “Some major news organizations have exercised restraint, declining to publish the names, photos or any other revealing details about the…