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Texas News Outlets Oppose Effort to Put Confederate Flags on License Plates
Texas Dailies Say Keep Confederate Flag Off Plates The Sons of Confederate Veterans continued to fight the Civil War all the way to the Supreme Court on Monday, but Texas’ major dailies oppose the group’s demand for a Texas specialty license plate that features the Confederate battle flag. “The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) insist…
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President Obama Celebrates Diversity With Young Scientists at White House Science Fair
The lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the science, technology, engineering and math fields is not a secret—and the 2015 White House Science Fair’s main focus was on just that. The fair, held on Monday, included students from underrepresented backgrounds who could be the next generation of innovators. “We don’t want to just increase…
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Why Baltimore Raven/Mathematician John Urschel Is The Blackest Person Who Ever Existed This Week
1. Because math — not English, not social studies, not horticulture, not even science — is the Blackest subject. At least it is according to JR Writer. And Fabulous. And Cassidy. And every other rapper who’s devoted several bars to bragging about dropping out of school but always being good at math. Because being good at…
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What I Learned From Mo’ne Davis About Girls, Sports and Success
When I worked with Mo’ne Davis to write her new book, Mo’ne Davis: Remember My Name: My Story From First Pitch to Game Changer, I met a 13-year-old who epitomizes the benefits of girls’ involvement in sports. Of course, I already knew about Mo’ne’s women’s-history-making Little League pitching performances, when she struck out scores of…
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Let’s Pay Homage to the Education Law Designed to Help Students From Low-Income Families
Voting Rights Act Isn’t Only Great Society Law in Peril Along with the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act, this year marks another milestone: 1965 saw passage of the education law designed to help disadvantaged and special-needs children, particularly those of color. The law is up for renewal this year,…
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Some Brotherly Love for Clergyman and Freemason Absalom Jones
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Among the multitude of tributes made to the renowned African-American clergyman Absalom Jones, few capture his life and times in…
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SXSW: Diversity Hackathon Laying the Groundwork for the Future
While the tech industry continued to try to figure out what to do about its diversity problem, 50 high school and college students of color were getting a taste of what it might be like to work in Silicon Valley at MVMT50’s inaugural hackathon, held over the weekend at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. Organizations…
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9 HBCU Students Just Made the Voter-ID War Hot Again
The voter-ID war just opened up a huge new front. This time in Tennessee. A group of nine students from HBCUs Fisk and Tennessee State have filed a federal lawsuit against the Volunteer State’s heavily contested and controversial voter-ID law. Johnston points to identification cards for state university faculty and staff, which are perfectly legal…
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Professor Encourages His Inmate Students to Write Their Own Obits Based on the Life They Plan to Lead
Some Say Assignment Demonstrates Power of Journalism “In the wrong writer’s hands, an obituary can be a dull collection of biographical facts, the type of article that journalism professor William Drummond calls the ‘lowest common denominator’ of newspaper writing,” Chris Megerian wrote last week in the Los Angeles Times, in a piece accompanied by a…
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10 Designing Women Who Are Changing the Face of Tech
In the past few years, there’s been a big push for more young black women to pursue careers in technology. There’s Black Founders, which brings together other African-American start-up entrepreneurs. There’s Black Girls Code, an organization that exposes girls to the science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields. We wanted to highlight some of…