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Internet Is Furious After Trump Is Quiet About Juneteenth Except for This 1 Post…
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Digital Divide is Closing: Blacks and Hispanics Top Wireless Usage
The digital divide is closing. According to a Pew Research Center report, African Americans and Hispanics continue to be among the most ardent users of the Internet on their cell phones. Members of low-income demographics are the fastest adopters of mobile Web technology, which may help close the gap with wealthier populations who overwhelmingly have…
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McDonald's 365Black Awards Honors Black Leaders
The Essence Music Festival wasn’t the only hot ticket item in New Orleans this past weekend. McDonald’s held its 7th Annual 365Black Awards at New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 2. CNN contributor Roland Martin hosted the red carpet and captured candid and entertaining interviews from this year’s honorees, including actress-philanthropist Holly…
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Nothing Special, Really, About Losing 100 Pounds
In the five months I’ve been blogging for The Root, I’ve already heard from a handful of women who’ve lost 100 pounds or more, and a few of them are African American. I bring up ethnicity because of the 80-percent-overweight thing, even though it appears people of all colors are stalking me via this blog.…
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Alvin Greene Saga's Racist Undertones Plagued Father, Too
Last month, I questioned some of the motivations behind the bipartisan attacks on South Carolina Senate candidate Alvin Greene. Despite having won nearly 60 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, Greene—a less than qualified candidate, to be sure, but still the winning candidate—was immediately battered by politicians and the media alike, who insisted…
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Oakland Asks for Peace as Oscar Grant Trial Verdict Looms
Oakland officials are preaching peace as tension mounts while waiting for the Oscar Grant murder trial. Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. Witnesses say another police officer had Grant on the ground, subdued, with his knee in Grant’s back when he was killed. The alleged murder set off riots and…
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Say It Ain't So: Serena Williams Discusses Body Image Issues
The woman that men pine over and whose body many women say they would like to have as their own has body image issues. In Harper’s Bazaar, tennis champion Serena Williams discusses her “big boobs” and “massive butt.” The size 12 beauty, who recently slimmed down to a size 10, says that she always wanted…
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Splitting Hairs: Muslim vs. 'Muslim Born'
There’s an elephant in the room. The Independent reported that Canadian Raheel Raza was the first Muslim-born woman to preside over Friday prayers in the U.K. The problem is that Amina Wadud, a U.S. professor, had already done so before in 2008. Raza is Muslim-born, while Wadud is an African-American Muslim convert. This raised a…
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Don't Mess With the Lohan: Meet Shawn Chapman Holley
What is more interesting than watching Lindsay Lohan break down over having to serve time in the pokey? The battle royale that ensued between her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley and prosecutor Danette Meyers. Two sisters going at it over America’s most troubled former sweetheart. They don’t make movies this interesting. Myers painted Lindsay as a…
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Heat Wave Bakes the East Coast
The heat wave that hit the East Coast keeps coming and intensifying. Experts are concerned about the homeless, children playing sports and the elderly. There may also be possible rolling blackouts because of the increased use of air conditioning. Record highs have hit the East Coast, with temperatures climbing to 105 in Baltimore and 103…