Supermodel Anok Yai Looked Stunning and Different at Paris Fashion Week
Jasmine Crockett Says What We’ve All Been Thinking About Melania Trump’s U.S. Citizenship
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Why Black Folks Were Never Truly ‘Woke,’ Explained
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The Root Interview: Julianne Malveaux on the Importance of HBCUs
Educator Dr. Julianne Malveaux has long been known as a firebrand. Armed with a doctorate in economics from MIT, she’s made a career out of interpreting the American economic landscape as it relates to African-American life. (Her latest book is Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History.) Three years ago, the economist refocused…
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Andrew Breitbart 'Disinvited' From ABC News Coverage
Andrew Breitbart has done it again. By stretching the truth, Breitbart has forced ABC News to rescind its invitation for Breitbart to participate in an election-night event in Phoenix. The event ,which will be streamed live on ABCNews.com from Arizona State University campus on Tuesday evening, will go on without Breitbart’s participation. In a letter…
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Bishop Eddie Long Finally Responds to Lawsuits
Fresh from our “You think you’re slick” file, Bishop Eddie Long chose yesterday — just before Election Day — to respond to four suits accusing him of coercing young men into sexual relationships. Long denies the claims and asks that the suits be dismissed. “The plaintiff’s claims of sexual misconduct are not true,” says each…
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I Exercised My Right to Vote Today, But . . .
. . . that’s the only exercise I’ve had in about a week, though. I know; I’m terrible. I’m trying. It’s just that my world has done a 180, and everything has to be rethought, from the best time to take a shower to what I’ll wear to work. I forgot how time-consuming planning a…
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Massachusetts Man Gets 9 Years for Torching African-American Church
A white man was sentenced today to nine years in prison for burning down a predominantly African-American church in Springfield, Mass., the day after Barack Obama won the presidential election. Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor in Springfield for the 2008 burning of the Macedonia Church of God in…
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Campaigning From the Grave: Dead Man's Family Wants Obama Out in 2012
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In Georgia, the family of Donald Charles Unsworth has made their thoughts about President Barack Obama quite clear in an obituary, of all places. In a display of poor taste and a strong distaste for the president, the family asks folks to donate memorial funds…
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Rapper T.I. Reports to Arkansas Federal Prison
Rapper T.I. has reported to an Arkansas federal prison again to serve time for a weapons violation. The 30-year-old, whose real name is Clifford Harris, showed up shortly at the gates of the Forrest City low-security prison, traveling in an entourage of two black Chevrolet suburbans. Harris served about seven months in the Arkansas prison…
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Marijuana Mogul and Activist Bankrolls California's Prop 19
According to ABC News, of the more than $3 million put up to support California’s Proposition 19 ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana, half the money came from one man, Richard Lee, the Oakland entrepreneur behind a medical marijuana dispensary, nursery and other pot-related businesses. A young man who flew ultralight planes and loved motorcycles,…
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'GOP Is the New Black' Billboard Targets African Americans
A billboard sponsored by the Raging Elephants and stating, “G.O.P. Is the New Black,” is posted in Houston. If the GOP is the “new black,” then the Raging Elephants must be the “new wack,” since blacks have been Republicans since the founding of the party. Perhaps they should change their name to Raging Bull, because…