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Vintage Black Beauty
(The Root) — These are pictures you rarely see in your American-history books: black women dressed to the nines, swaddled head to toe in glamour, getting married, going to parties or just holding their children. The Tumblr Vintage Black Beauties provides a look at everyday women being beautiful, every day. Old pictures of nonfamous black…
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Twitter on Jay-Z's New Album and That Other Magna Carta
(The Root) — Jay-Z’s new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, dropped today, and the cool new thing to do on Twitter is to assume that people don’t know what the real Magna Carta is. Because, you know, hip-hop fans aren’t smart enough to know historical tidbits. They’re all too busy smoking weed and robbing liquor…
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The TSA's New Instagram Account
(The Root) — Sick of airport security’s invasive checkpoint procedures? Tired of complaining about your Pert Plus getting confiscated before your flights? Well, the Transportation Security Administration is tired of hearing about it, and the agency has gone on the defensive with an Instagram account. The account showcases pictures of dangerous items the TSA has…
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Black Twitter Celebrates Independence Day — Mostly
(The Root) — Almost everybody knows at least one militant black person who is anti-Independence Day and makes it very difficult for you to enjoy your plate of barbecue in peace. There’s no scarcity of such folks on Twitter; every year I brace myself for all the “I’M NOT CELEBRATING AMERIKKKA’S INDEPENENCE DAY FOR MY…
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Testimony Halted by Online Trolls
(The Root) — Although Skype is more of a social tool than a social media platform, the two were brought together during the George Zimmerman murder trial today. Scott Pleasants, a former professor of Zimmerman’s, was testifying via Skype, which is not unheard of in court. But unfortunately, the people running the show didn’t think…
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Twitter: Gabrielle Union Is No Olivia Pope — Yet
(The Root) — It seems that everyone is trying to capture the momentum of Scandal, ABC’s hit show starring Kerry Washington as a woman capable of fixing everyone’s life but her own. After auditioning for the role of Olivia Pope and losing out, actress Gabrielle Union is poised to make a name for herself in…
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B. Scott Refuses BET's Apology
(The Root) — Apparently BET figured that between Paula Deen and Serena Williams, we haven’t had enough unapologetic apologies this year and decided to issue one of its own. Internet personality B. Scott recently spoke out about being forced to change his preapproved look minutes before he was scheduled to host the BET Awards preshow,…
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Twitter Talks the N-Word — Again
(The Root) — The n-word has been getting an awful lot of attention since Paula Deen’s fall from grace, and the discussion was compounded by references to Trayvon Martin’s use of the word “cracker” in the Zimmerman trial. Jumping at the chance to mediate the discussion, CNN gathered a varied panel, including actor LeVar Burton,…
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No Shame Day
(The Root) — Yesterday was the first day of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. For the second year in a row, people on Twitter kicked off the month by sharing stories of their own experiences with mental illness, marked with the tag #NoShameDay. It has always been said that black people don’t go to…
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Why Didn't BET Let B. Scott Be Himself?
(The Root) — The 2013 BET Awards aired last night, and black folks across the Internet kept a watchful eye on it from beginning to end. Given BET’s record of less-than-stellar shows, I think it’s safe to say that many people watched hoping to catch the screwups as much as to see who performed, who…