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Obama Gets Coding Lesson From Middle School Student
President Barack Obama took JavaScript coding lessons from an African-American middle school student at the White House Monday. “Slow down, because I’m an old man,” the president joked with his tutor. The event was part of Computer Science Education Week at the White House, where Obama was hoping to shed light on the back-end technology…
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Exploring the City of the Mind Through African Art
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art opened in late October 2014 in Cambridge, Mass., its exterior walls serving as both real and metaphoric grounding for the Hutchins Center for African and American Research at Harvard University (of which The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is director). A handsome, angled entry…
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No One Keeps Count of the Number of People Who Die in Police Custody: Report
The recent deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers have sparked debate and protests across the nation. According to an Associated Press report, there are “no firm statistics” to determine if this is a new trend or merely business as usual when it comes to policing the black community. “We have a…
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Painting the Full Picture of What’s Behind These Clashes Between Police and Black People
Writer Raises Questions That Get at the “Why” An appearance in an Al Jazeera report on media coverage of the developments in Ferguson, Mo., after the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson convinced this columnist that “the media” in such situations has increasingly become defined as television coverage, with radio, the print…
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Dear Racist Star Wars Fans: There Are Black Stormtroopers, So Get Over It
In yet another day ending in “y,” racists reared their ugly little racist heads on social media after the teaser for the seventh installment of the Star Wars series was released Friday. Star Wars: The Force Awakens seems to be a more post-racial Star Wars in the sense that the cast is more diverse than…
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Bill Cosby: We’ve Reached a Tipping Point—So What’s Next?
After years of troubling allegations of serial rape, the recent takedown of Bill Cosby as a public figure may mark a radical shift in how we address our rape culture. And though the spiraling effect of these claims has produced an unprecedented backlash against him, a chasm remains between this promising moment of activism—powered especially…
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Has the Great Recession Wiped Out a Black Generation?
One of the hidden secrets behind the Great Recession is the role different generations have played in the downturn. There are about 78 million baby boomers and about 82 million millennials tweeting away, but Generation X? A paltry 58 million. In other words, the generation now in its prime earning years is too small to keep…
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Nominate a Star of Tomorrow for the Young Futurists of 2015
Who are the young black trailblazers in your community? The Root is putting the spotlight on the African-American leaders and innovators of the future, and we want you to help. We are now accepting nominations for The Root 2015 Young Futurists list, to be unveiled in February. Young Futurists are between the ages of 16 and 22 and committed…
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Who Was Joel A. Rogers?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 100: Which journalist was…
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Veteran Journalists Dispense Advice Students Can Take to the Bank
Black Columnists Offer Tips for Success in Changing Field Members of the William Monroe Trotter Group of African American columnists, meeting on the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., were asked to impart advice to mass communications students on Tuesday. What they said sprang from decades of experience and was practical, heartfelt and…