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Black Fraternity Memorial Defaced With ‘Trump 2016,’ Your Newest Racial Slur
Are you a neo-Nazi or are you a Dallas Cowboys fan? There is actually a difference (all jokes aside), but expressing support for Nazism or the Cowboys can be a tricky situation if you’re a sports fan, ignorant or racist. Millions of Americans know that Michael Irvin, the Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys wide receiver,…
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$250,000,000 HBCU Innovation Fund Act Introduced to Congress
Rep. Alma S. Adams of the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina this week introduced the HBCU Innovation Fund Act, or H.R. 4857, HBCU Buzz reports. The legislation would create the HBCU Innovation Fund, which would make $250 million in competitive grants available to historically black colleges and universities across the country and allow for the…
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Forget Microsoft and Google! Student Turns Down Full-Time Job Offers to Focus on Black Dating App ‘Bae’
Online dating stats show a clear racial bias in how black men and black women are viewed as romantic partners. In general, those two groups are the lowest rated in terms of attraction, as a 2014 OkCupid study demonstrated. Concerned about this obvious inequity, Jordan Kunzika, Brian Gerrard and Justin Gerrard created the mobile app Bae: Before Anyone Else…
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We Don’t Have to Wait for the General Election to See the Harmful Effects of Voter-ID Laws—They’re Already Happening
Look out, voting people. The 2016 Democratic presidential primaries have fast become the early-warning detection system on voter-ID laws. And based on what we’ve seen thus far, the electoral weather patterns don’t look so good. Conversations on the expanding voter-ID and voter-suppression franchises have, up to this point, centered on election Armageddon scenarios in the…
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In Search of the Church of Trump
I went to church in search of Donald Trump. To understand Scott, you have to understand Cleveland. I have lived in Cleveland, on and off, for the last 10 years and have seen the city go through a lot of change. From 2004 to 2016, Cleveland has gone from being the poorest big city in…
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Morehouse Senior, Originally From Zimbabwe, Selected as 2016 International Rhodes Scholar
A Morehouse senior prepping for his own graduation is also a 2016 international Rhodes Scholar, adding yet another amazing achievement to his inspiring story. Prince Abudu is no ordinary Morehouse student, having grown up on a small farm in Chegutu, Zimbabwe, where his mother did everything to help her academically gifted son get ahead, including…
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To Black Men Who've Survived Sexual Assault: We Must Speak
***Author’s Note: The following piece is not me trying to silence or dismiss the suffering of other communities. This stems from my longing for an intersectional conversation on sexual violence. It is my attempt to talk about the pain which is inflicted when rape culture and toxic Black masculinity converge. I do not know what…
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23 Black Political Pundits You Should Know
In this political season where the ghost of the Southern strategy has risen again via Donald Trump, political analysis from African Americans is more vital than ever. We need their thoughts, insight, wit and wisdom. Here are The Root’s top black political analysts, reporters, strategists and public intellectuals who we tune into when we want…
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To Black Men Who Have Survived Sexual Assault: We Have to Speak Up
Author’s note: The following piece is not me trying to silence or dismiss the suffering of other communities. This stems from my longing for an intersectional conversation on sexual violence. It is my attempt to talk about the pain that is inflicted when rape culture and toxic black masculinity converge. I do not know what you…
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Did Bill Clinton Attack President Obama’s ‘Awful Legacy’?
It’s no secret that former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama are more “frenemies” than political friends. Bill Clinton was his wife Hillary Clinton’s biggest attack dog in the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, and both publicly and privately suggested that then-Sen. Obama wasn’t up to being commander in chief. Hillary Clinton and Obama have since…