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Washington, DC’s Only Public Hospital Just Decided to Close Its Maternity Ward
In a closed-session vote Wednesday, the board of Washington, D.C.’s only public hospital decided to close its nursery and delivery rooms. As the Washington Post reports, now the women of Southeast D.C. (which is predominantly black and low-income) have even fewer maternal-health options. Not only is the decision potentially devastating to pregnant women in Southeast,…
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Beyoncé Stole My Look: How to Do a Holiday Party Right
Damn it, I was going to wear that. This week, like many of you, we here at The Root are willing our livers to carry us through a week of open-bar holiday parties while trying to ride that fine line between office-appropriate and out-of-office attire—and behavior. Fun fact: Here at Gizmodo Media Group, where we…
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The 10 Best Brown-Liquor Christmas Songs, Ranked
The best Christmas songs are ones that can be played while sipping brown liquor. I know, I know: the birth of Christ. I love Jesus, too; still, the holiday season overlaps with cuffing season, and with all that cold weather and love in the air, you are likely to spend your time either drinking eggnog…
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Golden Krust Is a Major Part of the Caribbean New Yorker Identity
Golden Krust CEO Lowell Hawthorne’s unabashed capitalist optimism feels out of step in a time of emboldened anti-black resentment. Still, when the businessman spoke to the Jamaican Observer as recently as October, he echoed the belief of many West Indian transplants—the blind hope that the American dream can be manifested through sheer will. “In my…
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Quiz: Are You a Becky?
This weekend, scientists at one of the country’s most heralded bastions of journalism unearthed a living, breathing specimen of a real-life Becky. Unlike the modern-day versions of white women who trade on the privilege and status of white womanhood, this Becky was discovered in pristine form, unadulterated by societal contaminants such as intelligence, reason and…
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Today We Honor Chad ‘Pimp C’ Butler of UGK on the 10th Anniversary of His Death
Ten years ago today, we lost one of the greatest treasures in hip-hop—Underground Kingz member Chad Butler, otherwise known as Pimp C. If you are unfamiliar with Pimp C, I suggest you get familiar real quick. Use this 92-minute $weet Jone$ mix put together by DJ Wally Sparks to brush up on your Pimp C…
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10 Best Christmas Hip-Hop Songs, Ranked
From the Temptations’ “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” to John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” to Oscar Peterson’s “White Christmas,” black folks have contributed to the sonic landscape of the Christmas holiday in unforgettable fashion. Since Christmas parties are a universal part of the season and because hip-hop is the music of…
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Trump Had a Racist Meltdown, Some Say
Retweet of Anti-Muslim Video, ‘Pocahontas’ Cited Ryan ‘Great’ With Snub From White House on Party Press Groups Sue for Details on Leak Investigations Yamiche Alcindor Leaving N.Y. Times for PBS ‘Journal-isms’ Makes the News Conyers’ Wife Irritated by Media Attention Baquet Talks Pain, Therapy, Blackness With Jay-Z $75K to Help Puerto Rico Radio Stations Recover…
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Dapper: Fashioning a Queer Aesthetic of Black Womanhood
“Ain’t I a woman?” Black feminist pioneer Sojourner Truth famously asked that question of an all-white audience of abolitionists and suffragettes in 1861, to point out the erasure of black women from the social “protections” of womanhood. A century and a half later, black women, from Misty Copeland and Serena Williams to first lady Michelle…