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Twitter's War With Lil Wayne Over Flag
(The Root) — Twitter has been in a rage since TMZ leaked footage of Lil Wayne “trampling” an American flag while shooting a video for his song “God Bless Amerika.” The song is a controversial one; its lyrics refer to America as “godless” and as the “sweet land of kill ’em all and let ’em…
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Video Comes to Instagram
(The Root) — The folks at Facebook must be feeling some pressure from Twitter’s latest hole-in-one. Rumors are swirling that on June 20, Facebook will announce that users of Instagram (which Facebook owns) will be able to share video with the app. The assumption is that this development is to compete with Vine, Twitter’s video-sharing…
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Public Shaming Blog Puts Racists on Blast
(The Root) — The Internet can be a pretty ugly place, with anonymity giving a lot of people courage that they wouldn’t otherwise have. Behind the cover of screen names, people blog, tweet and Facebook some pretty vile stuff. Sometimes they get in big trouble for it; other times, it has to be enough to…
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The Word 'Tweet' Gets Redefined
(The Root) — Social media continue to have an impact on the way we do things. They’re even changing the way we speak. The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded the definition of the word “tweet” to include the action of posting an update on Twitter. This is significant because according to the OED rules, a…
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America's Baby Has a Twitter Account
(The Root) — Merry Yeezmus! Kim and Kanye’s firstborn bounced into the world Saturday, just in time for Kanye to celebrate his first official Father’s Day. Kimye’s baby has been tweeting from the womb since June 12 from the account AmericasBaby1, and it looks like we’ll be in for more tweets now that her worldly…
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A White Feminist Tweets
(The Root) — Any womanist or feminist of color probably has a frustrating story of running into issues of racism and privilege with the white women fighting by their sides. They’re with you on the sexism thing, but when it comes to race and class, sometimes our fairer-skinned sisters get a little lost, though they…
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Who Says We Aren't Patriotic?
(The Root) — Though we’re notorious for being very vocal about how we’re not celebrating patriotic holidays like the Fourth of July, there are still those among us who have a bit of red, white and blue in our hearts. Friday is Flag Day, a holiday that commemorates the adoption of the American flag. It’s…
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Man Finds Father on Facebook
(The Root) — Celebrating Father’s Day is still relatively new for Chris Truesdale and his son, Terrell Starr. Starr always knew that his father was out there somewhere, but Truesdale had no idea he had a son until he received a Facebook message back in 2009. Despite not knowing that he even had a son,…
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Miley Cyrus Wants Something That 'Feels Black'
(The Root) — Miley Cyrus is quickly becoming the poster child for cultural appropriation, evidenced by the dry, questionable “twerking” she’s been doing all over the place. As if that wasn’t enough, she now has a gold grill. And if that’s not enough, she’s flat-out going for a “black” sound with her new music, according…
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Mariah Carey Photo Causes a Stir
(The Root) — A still from Lee Daniel’s latest movie, The Butler, is causing a bit of a ruckus on Twitter. The movie is about Eugene Allen, who retired as head butler of the White House in 1986. The photo shows Mariah Carey as a slave working in a cotton field with two other darker-skinned…