Why the Black Internet Believes Grammys Just Threw Shade at Beyoncé
Proof The ‘Absent Black Father’ Was a Big Lie
Jay-Z’s Daughter Rumi Carter Throws Up the Roc Nation Sign On Stage, Sparking Insane Illuminati Theories
Black Musicians Who Were Targeted By The FBI and Other Law Enforcement
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The Root’s Gates Among Winners of NAACP Image Awards
We had a lot of advice for the NAACP before their 41st annual Image Awards ceremony Friday. In at least one case, they did listen and passed up on giving the award for literary non-fiction to Al Gore. Instead, the winner in that category was The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. for his book, “In…
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NEWS STAND: Noose Leads Students to Storm Office, Pro-Life Blacks
Latest in “Compton Cookout” Controversy Black students at University of California in San Diego have finally had enough. First there was the off-campus “Compton Cookout” party parodying black stereotypes. When black students complained, the campus TV station mocked them with a racist broadcast. Black students and others protested that, after which a noose was found dangling in a…
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Tsunami Alert Hits Obama's Home State
UPDATE at 3:00 pm E.T.: President Barack Obama said this afternoon, “I urge citizens to listen closely to the instructions of local officials, who will have the full support of the federal government as they prepare for a potential tsunami, and recover from any damage that may be caused.” He also expressed condolences for the…
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The Many Afterlives of Malcolm X
Feb. 21 has come and gone. At 3:15 p.m., on that Sunday in 1965, Black Muslim Minister Malcolm X was assassinated as he gave a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. It may seem like a strange cultural practice to mark such a tragedy—a day that claimed the life of not only a man,…
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8.8-Magnitude Quake Strikes Chile
A 8.8-magnitude quake struck Chile early Saturday. President Michele Bachelet has declared a “state of catastrophe” for central Chile Chile’s TVN cable news channel was reporting 82 deaths, with the toll expected to rise and Mrs. Bachelet had declared a “state of catastrophe” in central Chile. The quake downed buildings and houses in Santiago and…
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Book Excerpt: Before Brown v. Board of Education
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation, Rawn James Jr., 2010 In 1935, Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston’s fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, had been working on plans to file a lawsuit to integrate the University of Maryland. Led by its assistant general counsel Belford V. Lawson Jr.,…
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Gatorade Sets Tiger Free
Tiger Woods fancied cocktail waitresses who were not his wife. Gatorade did not fancy that fancying and has decided to part ways with the golf superstar Gatorade said Friday it was ending its sponsorship relationship with embattled golf star Tiger Woods. That makes Gatorade the third sponsor to drop Woods since he confessed to marital…
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Doctor’s Orders: Stay Out of the Gym
Today is Day 3 in The War of the Rash. I’m on two different, very strong meds, one which causes intense drowsiness, the other insomnia. The first casualty of this internecine war? My willpower. The first, Prednisone, is a steroid that for years I’ve refused to take because I’m so susceptible to its side effects…
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Rep. Trent Franks Has Thoughts on Slavery
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona makes makes an…interesting parallel at the 6:22 mark