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Introducing The Root's 2014 Young Futurists
Each year during Black History Month, as The Root recognizes and celebrates the great accomplishments of our forebears, we believe it is also important to recognize and celebrate the young African-American men and women who are forging a path to future greatness. We call them Young Futurists, and we are pleased to introduce our 2014…
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Microsoft’s New Leadership: Is Tech Embracing Diversity? Not Quite
A remarkable aspect of Microsoft’s announcement of new leadership this week is that hardly anyone brought up the issue of race. Yet the biggest software company in the world will now be led by an Indian-American chief executive officer and an African-American chairman. The announcement that insider Satya Nadella, 46, will become the third CEO of…
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Stokely Carmichael’s Legacy Is Less Recognized Black History
Black History Month is the time to delve beyond the predictable roster of celebrated and increasingly mainstream African-American icons in order to spotlight an undiscovered country of political activists and activism. Going beyond the usual cast of characters celebrated during this time of year allows us to better understand the narrative of struggle that makes…
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Our Favorite Black Winter Olympians
Thanks to a deficit of racial diversity on the U.S. team, some jokingly write off the Winter Games as the “white Olympics.” But those observers must be forgetting these competitors of color, who, despite their relatively small numbers, made big impressions. As we count down to the Sochi Olympics’ opening ceremony on Friday, we remember…
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Shouldn’t Every Day Be ‘Black History Month’?
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. 66:…
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Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Indicted Boston Marathon Bomber
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the young man charged with planting the bombs at the Boston Marathon last year in a devastating attack that killed three people and injured nearly 300 others, should be put to death if found guilty, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday, according to Reuters. Holder has officially authorized federal trial prosecutors to…
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First Lady Invites Jason Collins and Boston Bombing Survivors to State of the Union
On Monday the White House officially announced the first round of guests to be seated in the first lady’s box during the State of the Union. Two who will be there: Boston-bombing survivors Carlos Arredondo and Jeff Bauman—the two men seen in the heart-wrenching photo in which Arredondo, in a white cowboy hat, helped wheel…
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City Lends Black Community Paper $100,000, Raising Ethical Questions
City Lends Black Community Paper $100,000 The City Council of Winston-Salem, N.C., approved a $100,000 low-interest loan this week to the Chronicle, a weekly newspaper serving the city’s black community. A rival outlet questioned how the weekly could maintain that its reporting on the city was unbiased, and the publisher of the city’s daily declared,…
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Kevin Grevioux Gives Frankenstein New Life
With Friday’s highly anticipated release of I, Frankenstein, Kevin Grevioux solidifies his place as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after African-American screenwriters, graphic novelists and producers in the sci-fi and fantasy genre. Grevioux is a Chicago native and graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., but he’s best-known as the co-creator of the successful Underworld movie…