Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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What Obama and Drake Have to Do With Being Black
I’m the son of a black father and a white mother. As a child coming up in the 1980s and ’90s, I immersed myself in hip-hop style and culture, excelled at sports, rocked aerodynamic hairstyles, and spoke in the same florid body language that the older brothers at the local black barbershop were fluent in.…
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Do You Have Your 'Hood Pass?
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama aroused some controversy by checking “African American” on his U.S. Census form. He’s black, some say. No, he’s half-white, declare others. If blackness is more of a social construct than a biological one, what are its social definitions? Its dating and marriage choices? An identification fostered on Hawaiian basketball…
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Cinnamon Toast, Ice Cream and London Broil
This morning, I wanted cinnamon toast. Four pieces, for starters. I wanted to toast four pieces of bread, slather them with butter, sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon and set them under the broiler. Can’t even recall the last time I made cinnamon toast, or even wanted it, but there I was, craving…
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Today in Pre-Postracialism: Sandra Bullock Adopts Black Boy
Sandra Bullock is new mom to a young lad from New Orleans. Sandra hid—for the past 5 months—that she adopted baby Louis. She said she wouldn’t even let her friends come in her house. After spending tons of time in post-Katrina New Orleans and helping with the rebuilding efforts, she ended up falling in love…
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Captain Eo Returns!
Disney World brings back a classic. Thomas Smith of Disney’s blog explains Yes, you read right…the classic 3-D film experience “Captain EO” is coming back to Walt Disney World Resort this summer just months after it reopened to rave reviews at Disneyland park. The 17-minute musical space-fantasy adventure film is now scheduled to begin at…
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The Musicians 'Down in the Tremé'
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Born in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, Boutte got his start in music by playing the trumpet and cornet in area marching bands. Although he grew up with a heart beating to New Orleans’ rhythms, he didn’t start singing professionally until…
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Fresno Cops Involved in Repeated Shootings Still On-Duty
Below is an excerpt from a joint investigation done by ColorLines and the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute on the prevalence of Fresno cops involved in shootings that are still on duty A thwarted attempt by the San Diego Tribune seven years ago to obtain disciplinary records for a deputy sheriff has rewritten police…
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Nigeria's Ruling Party Faces Fraud Charges
Bad news coming out of Nigeria. A court has brought fraud charges against the chairmen of the ruling party Vincent Ogbulafor faces 16 counts accusing him of funneling money toward fictitious projects during his service as minister of special duties. The charges claim Ogbulafor conspired with two top officials from the National Economic Intelligence Agency…
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Manuel Noriega Sent to French Jail
Manuel Noriega has gone from jail to…more jail. France wants a piece of the ex-general for a new trial on money laundering charges Noriega has spent the last 20 years in prison near Miami and was extradited Tuesday to France from the United States. He could face another 10 years in prison in France. French…
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NEWS STAND: Bankers Under Fire, GOP Blocks Reform, Walmart Faces Women's Wrath, and more
Holding that Line: Goldman executives tight-lippedhttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/27/1600918/under-heated-questioning-goldman.html What did you expect? We don’t even know why they’re having hearings. Why ask liars, thieves and scoundrels who made billions while tanking the U.S. economy to tell the truth? Sure, the Goldman execs are the beacons of truth, which is how we got into this dire economic situation…