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Black Feminists: Our Feisty History
As The Root celebrates Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at the black feminists who have charted the course for contemporary women’s progress. While authors like Pearl Cleage used a pen as their weapon, others, like Ntozake Shange, used the stage; still others, like the flamboyant Florynce Kennedy, used the law to protect women’s rights.…
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Black Feminists: Our Feisty History
As The Root celebrates Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at the black feminists who have charted the course for contemporary women’s progress. While authors like Pearl Cleage used a pen as their weapon, others, like Ntozake Shange, used the stage; still others, like the flamboyant Florynce Kennedy, used the law to protect women’s rights.…
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Google Equates Black Girls With Sex; Why?
(The Root) — Ever do a search in Google and get back some crazy result you weren’t expecting? A few years ago, I did a Google search on the term “black girls” to assist my nieces and stepdaughter in some stuff for school. What was the first search result? www.hotblackp—sy.com. I was horrified. But I…
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Find Where Your Slave Ancestors Are Buried
(The Root) — Thanks to census records, many African Americans can trace some of their family’s history, but what about those lost during slavery? Fordham University seeks to answer that very question with a new Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans, based on user-submitted information and led by Sandra Arnold, senior secretary of Fordham’s…
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Dennis Rodman Livens Up ABC's 'This Week'
N. Korea Trip Burnishes “the Worm’s” Reputation as Bizarre “Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea wasn’t an accident or an oddity, but the result of a gonzo media company facilitating a summit between a Basketball Hall of Famer and an oppressive dictator who grew up a Bulls fan. But making sense of it doesn’t equip…
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Aisha Tyler: Queen of the Blerds
(The Root) — Aisha Tyler is always on the grind. The comedian and TV star is in a constant state of motion: She can be seen Monday to Friday as a co-host of CBS’ The Talk, a show similar in vibe to The View; she’s the voice of sassy secret agent Lana Kane in the…
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Blerd Power
(The Root) — Our Black History Month series on the history of the blerd continues! We’ve traversed from the blerd’s beginnings at the dawn of America, and this week we follow the blerd from the mid-20th century to the rebellious end of the century. This was a time of thunderous social change, and though you…
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Obama Visits His 'Unhinged' Hometown
Teens Skeptical President Can Change Gang Mindset “President Barack Obama returned to Chicago for a few hours Friday to address the high-profile gun violence that continues to plague his hometown and suggested the solution is not only more gun laws, but community intervention and economic opportunity in impoverished neighborhoods,” John Byrne and Dahleen Glanton reported…
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Transcript of Obama's Remarks at Chicago Academy
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate Release February 15, 2013 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMY FOR THE MIDDLE CLASSHyde Park Career Academy, Chicago, Illinois3:31 P.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: Hey, Chicago! (Applause.) Hello, Chicago! Hello, everybody. Hello, Hyde Park! (Applause.) It is good to be home! It is good to be…
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Transcript of Obama's State of the Union Address
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Washington, DC As Prepared for Delivery – Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power…