A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion
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Flight Patterns: Cities Becoming More White
Paul Shepard of Black Voices noticed a funny thing happening on the way to work: Last Sunday morning, as I took my regular route from Silver Spring, Md., to Washington, D.C., down Georgia Avenue, home to Howard University, and the social backbone of D.C.’s black population for decades, I saw a sight that would have…
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Some Hard Questions for Elena Kagan
President Barack Obama’s pick of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to fill the seat vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens is widely regarded as the safest choice the president could make. She was just confirmed to her seat as the government’s counsel to the Supreme Court by a 61-31 vote last year. Seven Republicans voted in…
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Haitian Children Being Abandoned in Droves
As aid dwindles, some desperate parents in Haiti are leaving their children behind The catastrophic earthquake that left at least 1.3 million Haitians homeless was the final straw for families that could barely afford to feed their children before. Now with aid dwindling, Haitian families are abandoning their children in skyrocketing numbers in the hope…
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GOP Uses Thurgood Marshall to Attack Kagan
The GOP is already going on the offensive against Elena Kagan, calling into question her clerkship under liberal justice Thurgood Marshall: Republicans are questioning Elena Kagan’s ties to a liberal icon and the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.In its first memo to reporters since Kagan’s nomination to the high court became…
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Lena Horne's Life in Images
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter. Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917 (she is seen here at Lena Horne Homecoming Day in August 1947). She dropped out of school at 16 to support her ailing mother and joined…
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Lena Horne Dead at 92
She was the pinup poster for thousands of black GIs in World War II and a fixture of the nightclub and cabaret scene of the 1940s. Lena Horne, a beautiful daughter of Brooklyn, whose career was limited by the apartheid of her time, died Sunday at age 92. Horne grew up in an upper middle…
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Lena Horne Passes Away at 92
Another legend has left our midst as Lena Horne passes away at 92. Her career accomplishments are staggering and the New York Times’ obituary on her is a tremendous read. Below is an excerpt: Ms. Horne might have become a major movie star, but she was born 50 years too early, and languished at MGM…
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Obama To Nominate Kagan For Supreme Court
President Barack Obama is to announce on Monday that Solicitor General Elena Kagan is his pick to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan, 50, clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall and is the former dean of Harvard Law School. She would be the fourth woman to ever serve on the Supreme…
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Tiger Withdraws From the Players Championship
Today Tiger Woods withdrew from the Players Championship golf tournament in Florida, complaining of neck pain that he says has plagued him since before The Masters tourney last month. Tiger Woods withdrew on the seventh hole of Sunday’s final round at the Players Championship with a neck injury. He was two-over par through his first…
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Llewellyn's Last Days Were a Tug of War
Bruce Llewellyn’s last days were anything but peaceful. The wealthy black entrepreneur got caught in a battle for control of his treatment, his residence – and his money. According to the New York Times, Llewellyn, who made his fortune in supermarkets and a bottling company, gave control of his treatment to three close friends, instead…