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Jamaican Track and Field Feeling Heat
The Associated Press is reporting that the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission has officially been audited by the World Anti-Doping Agency because of inconsistent out-of-competition drug testing in the months leading up to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Jamaica’s Olympic athletes dominated their competition, specifically in track and field, in which the island’s star runner, Usain…
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Before Blacks Ruled the College Game
(Special to The Root) — Fifty years ago, when viewers across the country tuned in to watch the Loyola Ramblers play the Cincinnati Bearcats in the 1963 NCAA men’s basketball championship, they saw for the first time a sight that’s familiar to us today: Most of the players on the court, seven of 10, were…
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Cleveland Story: Where Will the Focus Be Next?
“The Cleveland kidnapping case has all the elements of an unforgettable news story, including a bizarre crime, innocent victims, heroes and a happy, at least for the most part, ending,” Michael Malone wrote Wednesday for Broadcasting & Cable. “As such, it’s nothing short of a circus on site in Cleveland, as the local TV reporters…
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Does 'N-gger' Trump All Other Slurs?
Panam Jackson writes: A few weeks back, one of the homeys sent me a video of an incident on a Metro train in DC. See, some wayward white man on the Green Line (notoriously known as the “Soul Train” in the area due to its propensity to run only through Prince George’s County, MD and DC),…
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Young, Black and Nominated: Enough?
(The Root) — A dream came true for Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis recently when she met actress China McClain on the set of McClain’s show, A.N.T. Farm on the Disney Channel. Upon learning of her Oscar nomination, the 9-year-old Wallis reportedly expressed more excitement about the chance to meet her favorite teen TV stars…
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Trailblazing South African Runner Charged With Murdering Girlfriend
Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee track star from South Africa who was one of the heroes of the 2012 London Olympics, was charged Thursday with murder in the shooting death of a woman believed to be his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, at his home outside of Pretoria. Pistorius made history last summer as the first double-amputee…
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The Problem With Black History Month
The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates says that the annual acknowledgment of African-American contributions hasn’t lost its purpose, but it has lost its way. … And now that we’ve seen the United States’s first president of color sworn in for the second time and our first black gymnast win the women’s all-around competition at the Olympics,…
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Gabby Douglas Donates to Black-History Museum
Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas will go down in African-American history as the first black woman in her sport to win the all-around gold. Now, thanks to her donation to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, mementos from her 2012 London Olympic Games triumph will go with her, the Huffington Post reports.…
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232 Die in Stampede in Brazil Club Fire
The Associated Press is reporting that a fire ripped through a crowded nightclub in Southern Brazil early Sunday, killing 232 people as the air filled with deadly smoke and patrons stampeded toward the exits, police and witnesses said. It appears to be the world’s deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. The tragedy comes…
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BET Honors 2013: Black Celebs Reflect on MLK
With other networks offering the likes of Basketball Wives, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Best Funeral Ever and the upcoming and already boycotted All My Babies’ Mamas, BET’s programming is not currently at the center of criticism for negative portrayals of the black community. And for at least one night a year since 2008,…