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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 512 Recap: Say Yes Ma'am!
Ladies and gents, we have now seen Rich Dollaz walk into a NYC public bathroom twice in the past four weeks. I’m one incident away from starting a Change.Org petition. Let me not get ahead of myself. The episode kicked off with the trials and tribulations of Yandy and MysticSoda(s). Yandy is understandably still very…
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University of Texas Frat Under Scrutiny for Racist and Homophobic Rules
Another frat is in the news. According to Raw Story, the University of Texas at Austin chapter of Phi Gamma Delta is in the news after it posted rules—racist and homophobic prohibitions included—in the frat house. The letter, which was supposed to be confidential and also shows that one of the members probably needs to…
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Miss. Sheriff Fired After Heated Xbox Rant: ‘I Get Paid to Beat Up N–gers Like You’
A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after authorities say he threatened another person online using racial slurs, the Clarion-Ledger reports. A man identified only as “David” on YouTube posted a video that shows an Xbox screen and reportedly provides audio of a conversation between him and then-Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Slater. David also…
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Black Journalists Back From ‘Africa’s Last Colony’ Tell Overlooked Story
Long-Overlooked Story Told of Continent’s “Palestine” A year ago, the Moroccan government paid expenses for representatives of the U.S. black press to visit their country. Morocco controls what is called “Africa’s last colony,” but that was hardly mentioned. That “last colony” — Western Sahara — is a place that few Americans are familiar with. It…
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Children of Color Likely to Be Majority of Kids in US by 2020
“Around the time the 2020 Census is conducted, more than half of the nation’s children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group,” the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Tuesday. “This proportion is expected to continue to grow so that by 2060, just 36 percent of all children (people under age…
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Culture of Abuse and Racism Revealed in Ferguson Police Department
Editor’s note: The Department of Justice issued two reports March 4 regarding its civil rights investigations of Ferguson, Mo. The Department of Justice’s investigation into law-enforcement practices in Ferguson, Mo., is nearly complete, and the full findings could be released to the public as early as this week. From the information that has leaked out, the results of…
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One-Third of Americans Say Obama Doesn’t Love America
More than a third of Americans don’t think President Obama loves America, according to a new survey,” Jesse Byrnes reported Wednesday for the Hill newspaper. Separately, “Over half of Republicans answered ‘Muslim’ when asked which religion describes President Obama’s ‘deep down’ beliefs, according to a newly released poll by Alex Theodoridis of the University of…
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Masters of the Camera: Renowned African-American Photographers
Nicole L. Cvetnic is The Root’s multimedia editor and producer. Photography is a medium of personal expression and exploration. It provides us with a way to observe and reflect upon life. Through their own unique styles, these 17 photographers focused their lenses on the African-American experience to produce rare glimpses into the worlds of identity,…
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Watch: Fla. Sheriff’s Deputy Drags Woman Suffering From Bipolar Disorder
The Broward Sheriff’s Office in Florida is conducting an investigation after one deputy was caught on video dragging a woman suffering from mental illness through a courthouse hallway by her ankle shackles, the New York Daily News reports. In the video, the woman, 28-year-old Dasyl Rios, can be hearing screaming (though not resisting), “Stop! You’re…
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Oscar Review: Racial Jokes That Didn’t Go Over and a Big Win for ‘Glory’
Pulitzer Winner Wesley Morris Says He Has to Go There “Last year’s hacked dump of private emails stolen from Sony Pictures Entertainment employees included a much-reported exchange between the company’s chairperson, Amy Pascal, and producer Scott Rudin, in which they joked about the kinds of movies President Obama might enjoy,” Wesley Morris, winner of the…