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Beauty Queen Is 'Not American Enough'
(The Root) — Last month, Southern rapper and Academy Award winner Juicy J announced via Twitter that he was offering a $50,000 scholarship to “the best chick who can twerk.” It was a marketing strategy to gain interest in “Scholarship” — a song off his latest album, Stay Trippy — and no doubt an opportunity…
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Isaiah Washington on Life After the F-Word
It’s been more than six years since Isaiah Washington was unceremoniously dropped from the hit TV series Grey’s Anatomy for allegedly insulting co-star T.R. Knight with a derogatory gay slur. Since then, the actor has failed to secure a role as popular as Dr. Preston Burke, his character on the Shonda Rhimes-created medical drama, which…
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Lessons From the Birmingham Bombing
(The Root) — Sept. 15 marks the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most tragic episode of the civil rights movement. On that day Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14, were killed in a terrorist-sponsored explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Their deaths overtook…
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How Racism Spurred My Commitment to Activism
In a piece at xoJane, Danielle Moodie-Mills recalls how a painful encounter with racism as a teen taught her how the issue was not relegated to a chapter in history books. Her experience also triggered her lifelong commitment to civil rights activism. “Get out of my seat, nigger.” I was 14 years old when I realized…
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March 2013: What About the Future?
(The Root) — As an exercise in further deifying Martin Luther King Jr. and further solidifying an oversimplified version of his legacy, yesterday’s 50th-anniversary celebration of the historic March on Washington was a huge success. But as a means of kindling a new and badly needed social movement that could meaningfully address the unfinished business…
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Obama: Standing in the Shadow of MLK
(The Root) — In my grandmother’s Arkansas home hangs a portrait of President Barack Obama with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the portrait has written beneath the two men “We Have a Dream; the Dream Has Come True.” It was one of many paintings, posters, buttons, T-shirts and other products that came…
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Are Parents to Blame When Children Break the Law?
It’s time for parents to be held accountable when their children run amok, CNN‘s L.Z. Granderson writes in a stinging piece that addresses several heinous crimes around the nation involving youth gun violence. “We don’t teach accountability, we don’t expect accountability and I’m not even sure we even know what accountability looks like anymore,” he…
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March on Washington: What We Want
(The Root) — Listen to talk radio, peruse the front page of the nation’s major news sites and covers of the big magazines this week, and the 1963 March on Washington occupies a lot of real estate. There are the stories and images of a peaceful gathering of Americans committed to nothing beyond calling for social justice and legal equality.…
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The Rampant Sexism at March on Washington
(The Root) — The March on Washington is considered one of the greatest gatherings for equal rights in human history. Yet while the crowd congregated to push for the equality of black Americans and workers’ rights, female participants in the march, and the civil rights movement as a whole, struggled for equal treatment, acknowledgment and…
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The Badass Women of the March
Keli Goff is The Root’s special correspondent. Follow her on Twitter. It is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of one of the greatest human rights movements in history. The civil rights movement, which did so much to advance equal rights for African Americans, struggled to demonstrate gender equality in its treatment of female civil rights…