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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai Dies
The Root is sad to report that scholar, activist and scientist Wangari Muta Maathai has died. The first African Nobel Peace Prize winner died Sunday after losing her battle with cancer. Maathai founded the Greenbelt Movement, built on her idea of community-based tree planting. The international grassroots movement’s main focus was poverty reduction and environmental…
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Daily Job Lead: Assistant Director
The Wellesley Natural Resources Commission, or NRC, is currently looking for an assistant director to help oversee many of the organization’s daily ongoing operations, including acquisitions, policy implementation and regulatory oversight of the region’s natural resources and recreational lands. The assistant director will also be in charge of overseeing projects and educational initiatives related to…
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Warren Washington: Taking the Lead on Global Warming
This is the fourth installment of our collaboration with the “Back to School With The HistoryMakers” event on Friday, Sept. 23, when some 500 renowned African Americans — from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to Common — will speak at schools around the country. Warren Washington is one of the world’s leading experts on climate change…
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Company Offers Blacks Free DNA Testing
To significantly boost the amount of genetic information collected about African Americans — which allows people to peer deeper into their ancestry and also to improve their medical care — a California-based genetic-testing company is offering free access to its Web-based service. The company, 23andMe, is inviting 10,000 adults of African descent to sign up…
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Rick Perry and the Republican Miracle
Who says miracles don’t happen? One occurred at the Republican presidential debate earlier this week. To wit: making Texas Gov. Rick Perry — the coyote-shootin’, secession-talkin’, George Wallace-channelin’, global-climate-change denyin’, extremist loudmouth — look less loony than some of his opponents. If that doesn’t qualify as a miracle, what would? I mean, Perry is the…
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How Will the Baby Change Jay-Z's Life?
It’s been more than two weeks since the annunciation of Aug. 28. I’m speaking, of course, of the coming of baby JayBey, the son of J-Hova born to the virginal vixen Beyoncé. And like the three wise men of the Bible, the bloggers guided by superstardom have already begun the long journey to lay presents…
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Recognizing Diversity at AdColor Awards
The AdColor Industry Coalition, a nonprofit group that supports and inspires professionals of color and champions diversity in the advertising, marketing and media sectors, announced its 2011 award winners. Among those honored were Rising Star Award winner Kenji Summers, community manager, BBH ZAG; Lifetime Achievement Award winner Earl G. Graves Sr., chairman, founder and publisher…
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Obama Increases Number of Women, Minority Judges
Jesse J. Holland of the Associated Press is reporting that President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation’s federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four people he has gotten confirmed to the federal bench are women or minorities. He is the first president who hasn’t selected a majority…
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Obama's 'Lesser Evil' Strategy
The 2012 election season is now under way, and President Barack Obama’s strategy for winning a second term is emerging. Instead of reprising the messianic movement that swept him into the White House, he will reinvent himself as “Give ‘Em Hell” Barry, an impassioned leader railing against do-nothing Republicans if they oppose the $447 billion…
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Obama: Jobs Plan 'Isn't Class Warfare'
If you saw President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress Thursday evening, then you probably noticed that a certain spark was back as he laid out his plan for creating jobs. Infrastructure projects and tax credits were among its features, but he pushed back on the notions that high-income Americans shouldn’t pay more…