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Living With History: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Great-Grandson Explains Why That Department of Education Tweet Was Truly Horrible
Editor’s note: For Black History Month, The Root is speaking to the relatives of our most cherished African-American heroes in a series called Living With History. To open the series, we interviewed a descendant of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. Last week we did a Q&A with the descendants of Ida B. Wells. Today…
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Morehouse at 150: Destroying 7 Myths That Challenge the Excellence of HBCUs
HBCUs have a rich history and powerful mystique that continue to shape African-American culture and inspire academic success. In popular culture, HBCUs have provided the context for movies, such as School Daze and Drumline, and television series, such as A Different World and The Quad. Most of America’s civil rights giants were educated at HBCUs,…
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It’s OK to Discuss Trump’s Mental Health
Some in the news media didn’t need President Donald Trump’s amazing news conference on Thursday to ask health professionals whether they thought Trump was mentally sound. News Conference Only Heightened Questions The news conference simply reinforced what many were already thinking. David Brooks wrote Friday in the New York Times, “President Trump’s mental state is…
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Chicago Police Say Suspect Shot at Rival Gang Members, Killed Takiya Holmes Instead
Police and prosecutors in Chicago say that Antwan C. Jones was walking down the street Saturday evening when he saw three rival gang members selling weed in his gang’s territory. Jones reportedly shot at them from across the street, but instead of hitting his targets, he hit 11-year-old Takiya Holmes in the right temple as…
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Yale University and the Curious Craze of ‘White-Peopleing’
When I was a little kid, my mother forbade me and my sisters to hit each other. Sometimes, however, when we were really mad, we would push each other into a corner, start swinging our arms wildly and scream, “I was doing this first.” We’d inform the person in the corner that they were free…
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Black Reporter Says Omarosa Bullied Her
“Conflict and controversy seem to follow Omarosa Manigault, who stirred up plenty of both as a reality-TV star and a longtime associate of President Trump,” Paul Farhi reported Monday for the Washington Post. “Manigault, who is now a communications official in the Trump administration, got into a heated argument with a White House reporter just…
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Geraldo Rivera Quits Yale After University Removes Slavery Supporter’s Name
Geraldo Rivera, former talk show host, current Fox News contributor and, most importantly, the man who didn’t find anything in Al Capone’s vault, decided to resign from his voluntary position at Yale University after the school decided to change the name of a residential college that honored a slavery supporter. Rivera was an associate fellow…
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Yale Renames Building of Slavery Defender John C. Calhoun to Honor ‘Amazing Grace’
As is the case with many institutions of higher learning confronting their slave-tinged pasts and renaming their buildings, Yale University announced Saturday that it would change the name of the residential college of white supremacist John C. Calhoun to honor computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper. The New York Times reports that the decision to rename…
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Court Hears Arguments Over Trump’s Muslim Ban; 45’s Documented Bigotry, Xenophobia Play Key Factor
Arguments for and against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban were heard Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco. The U.S. Justice Department and the state of Washington, which became the first state to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the ban, called in via conference…