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Color-Blind Casting: Black Actors in Traditionally White Roles
Quvenzhané Wallis is set to grace movie screens across America starting Friday in her Golden Globe-nominated role in a remake of the classic film Annie. In the original film, released in 1982, Little Orphan Annie was a curly-coiffed redhead played by Aileen Quinn. Of course, this isn’t the first time a black actor has portrayed…
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The Least Celebrated, but Most Successful, Colleges for Graduating Low-Income Black Students
Analyses that evaluate the success of HBCUs by observing their six-year graduation rates often miss the mark. On the surface, graduation rates tell us little about a college’s or university’s ability to educate a racially and economically diverse student body. Few colleges and universities educate a majority low-income student body and also graduate the majority…
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Was My Ancestor a Free Person of Color?
This answer was provided in consultation with Meaghan E.H. Siekman, a researcher from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Founded in 1845, NEHGS is the country’s leading nonprofit resource for family history research. Its website, AmericanAncestors.org, contains more than 300 million searchable records for research in New England, New York and beyond. With the leading experts…
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Senate Report: CIA Leaked Classified Material to Cultivate Pro-Torture Opinions
Senate Democrats’ Study Reveals Leaks to Journalists ” The Central Intelligence Agency leaked classified material to reporters to shape the perception that its detention and interrogation program was an effective tool in thwarting terrorism, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday,” Noam Cohen and Ravi Somaiya reported for the New York Times. “The…
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Exploring the City of the Mind Through African Art
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art opened in late October 2014 in Cambridge, Mass., its exterior walls serving as both real and metaphoric grounding for the Hutchins Center for African and American Research at Harvard University (of which The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is director). A handsome, angled entry…
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2 Storied Black Sororities—AKA and Delta—Won’t Let Their Members Protest While Wearing Greek Letters
Collectively known as the Divine Nine, black fraternities and sororities have long been central to the African-American college experience—standing as vanguards of social justice, community service, black excellence and achievement. So it has been surprising and, to many members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., disappointing that they’ve been…
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Even Conservative Media Question Justice of Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision
Lack of Indictment in Garner Case Faulted Across Spectrum “The media can’t breathe,” David Uberti wrote Thursday for Columbia Journalism Review. “That was the reaction of many journalists to news yesterday that New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo wouldn’t be indicted for killing Eric Garner — and it echoed the black Staten Island man’s…
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UN Pleads With Texas to Delay Execution of Mentally Ill Man
The United Nations is making a last-minute plea to Texas officials to delay the execution of Scott Panetti, a prisoner who is said to have mental disabilities that should have made him ineligible for the death penalty, Al-Jazeera reports. “There is no doubt that it is inherently cruel and unworthy of civilized societies to execute persons…
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Painting the Full Picture of What’s Behind These Clashes Between Police and Black People
Writer Raises Questions That Get at the “Why” An appearance in an Al Jazeera report on media coverage of the developments in Ferguson, Mo., after the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson convinced this columnist that “the media” in such situations has increasingly become defined as television coverage, with radio, the print…
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Ferguson Coverage: No One Seemed to Like It
Prosecutor, Protesters Single Out Cable News, Social Media From stone-throwers literally and figuratively to public officials and anguished citizens, the crisis in Ferguson, Mo., this week brought out the media haters. “The President, in a speech addressing the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown,…