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(The Root) — Mashable, a go-to website for news about innovation in social media and the digital world, is working with other organizations to foster global relationships to bring about social change via the Internet. The website has linked with the United Nations Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UNDP, the 92Y and…

(The Root) — As much as I loved reading it, Akoto Ofori-Atta‘s piece “19 Things Every HBCU Grad Knows” made me very uncomfortable. It’s a feeling that engulfs me whenever I hear anyone look back fondly on their collegiate years, but heavily so when the school in question is an HBCU. This is mostly because…

(The Root) — Since its inception, NPR’s CodeSwitch blog has facilitated some very engrossing, enlightening discussions about race on Twitter. A recent conversation, inspired by a post on AskReddit, earned a bevy of responses. CodeSwitch asked its Twitter followers, “What’s the most ridiculous question you’ve been asked (about race)?” Using the hashtag #TheyAsked, hundreds of…

(The Root) — A judge sentenced a 22-year-old North Carolina man to six months in prison for threatening, via Twitter, to assassinate President Obama. During the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Donte Jamar Sims sent a series of tweets outlining specifically how he planned to kill President Obama. Sims now claims that he was high on…

(The Root) — I went to a very white school for undergrad. Out of a campus of 1,000, there were roughly 20 black people, myself included. One of my most vivid memories is sitting and talking with a couple of friends, all black, in one of the campus lobbies. That’s it. Just talking. Across the…

(The Root) — Rapper Andre Benjamin, aka Andre 3000, of the group Outkast has suffered a devastating loss. His mother was found dead on Tuesday, Billboard has confirmed — one day after his birthday. Benjamin’s mother, Sharon Benjamin-Hodo, was the founder of the Starlight Camp in Georgia, a program for underprivileged children. The family has…

(The Root) — Thousands of tweets and emails appear to have paid off for members of a coalition of women’s organizations. Spearheaded by the Everyday Sexism Project; Women, Action, & the Media; and writer Soraya Chemaly, a campaign was launched to press Facebook to take a more proactive approach to dealing with shared content that…

(The Root) — With no new reports of celebrities kicking fans in the face, it was a bit of a slow day on Twitter. So Twitter decided to make its own fun and passed several hours with #HistoricalFacebookNames. The hashtag pokes fun at people’s tendency to include incredibly long, often ridiculous middle names on their…

(The Root) — The judge presiding over the George Zimmerman case delivered crushing blows to the defense this morning. U.S. Circuit Judge Debra Nelson ruled that “the defense may not bring up Trayvon Martin’s past marijuana use at trial, or his school suspensions or alleged participation in fights.” She also shot down a delay of…

(The Root) — There are certain things we grew up with that we’ll have to explain to our kids one day: the Walkman, encyclopedias, rotary phones — and Myspace. Myspace is essentially a cyber-wasteland these days. Once the go-to site for social media networking, the bulk of its residents have packed up and moved on…