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Local Media Miss a Mother’s Death in Jail
The young single mother of a 3-year-old died in police custody last week near Houston, but news of Symone Nicole Marshall’s death did not surface in the news media until a column Tuesday by Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King in the Daily News in New York.” A beautiful 22-year-old mother of a 3-year-old-daughter died…
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Comedians Call Out Politicians on Refugees
Want to see the best coverage of the global refugee crisis? The worst displacement, according to a top State Department official, since World War II? Check out late-night comedian John Oliver’s take on the subject. Oliver skewers dishonest reporting by Fox News Channel, Eastern European countries that are shutting the door on the displaced and…
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There’s More Than 1 Kind of Black: HBCUs Celebrate the Diversity of the Diaspora
It was definitely a major coup for Johnson C. Smith University, one of the nation’s HBCUs, to snag Oprah Winfrey as its commencement speaker. And she certainly delivered with down-to earth wisdom, her own inspirational stories and lessons from leaders from Martin Luther King Jr. to Maya Angelou. On a sunny Sunday morning, Winfrey told…
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Scold-in-Chief? The Love-Hate Relationship Between HBCUs and President Obama
It’s complicated. That could be the official theme of President Barack Obama’s rapport with the African-American community in general, but even more so regarding his administration’s eight-year relationship with HBCUs, which we examine in this edition of The Root’s monthly series His Lasting Legacy. The expectations that came with the election of America’s first black president—combined…
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I Wish I Cared About The Frank Ocean Sophomore Album That Will Never Ever Be Released
At a time when many felt like R&B had fallen off — kidnapped by Canadians and let down by Chris Brown — Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange saved us. Not only was the music on point, it was different and inclusive, as multiple songs — “Bad Religion” and “Forrest Gump” specifically — contained unambiguous references to male…
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Was My Black Texan Ancestor Fathered by a White Judge?
My maternal grandmother was very secretive about her family past. Her name was Lucy Laverne Alexander Lee and she was born to Bessie Baker Alexander and Jeffrey Alexander on April 7, 1918, in Richmond, Texas. She was their last child and only daughter (her brothers were Jeffrey Jr., Nolan and Charles). My great-grandfather Jeffrey died…
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I Don’t Care About Frank Ocean or His Sophomore Album That Will (Probably) Never Be Released
In 2012, at a time when many felt as if R&B had fallen off, Frank Ocean was our savior. Channel Orange felt like love on a warm, summer day. Not only was the music on point, but it was different and inclusive. Revealing his first love with a man and lyrics such as “You’re running…
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Media Glare Claims Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Dream House
Ta-Nehisi Coates has given up his dream of moving back to his old Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood, he wrote on Monday, after the celebrated writer’s purchase of a $2.1 million townhouse drew such media attention that he feared for his family’s safety should he move in. “. . . No one keep secrets in Brooklyn,” Coates…
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Where Are the Teachers of Color?
The U.S. Department of Education Friday reported “a lack of racial diversity among teachers at public elementary and secondary schools across the nation. Less than one in five U.S. public school teachers — 18 percent — are individuals of color, while approximately half —49 percent — of public elementary and secondary school students are individuals…
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Reporter Captures Footage Both ‘Graphic and Frightening’ on Camera
“A WWL-TV reporter witnessed firsthand how quickly violence can escalate during an interview with several rappers on crime and gun violence in New Orleans,” the New Orleans Advocate reported on Tuesday. David L. Harris, Boston Business Journal: Boston Globe employees brace for another round of layoffs “Easy Money and one of his friends confronted the…