black history month
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Here’s Why Maxwell (the R&B Singer, Not the Coffee) Is Trending
Looks like someone has something against Black History Month … well, at least that’s the consensus on Twitter. I’ll never know what Maxwell is actually talking about because he blocked me on Twitter earlier this summer after I questioned his “All Lives Matter” tweet. But here’s what everyone else is saying (and he apparently called…
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Watch: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Struggle of Race in America
Peabody Spotlight is a digital series produced by the Peabody Media Center at the University of Georgia. Each part of the series draws from the vast Peabody Awards archives, the third-largest repository of audiovisual materials in the United States. Peabody Spotlight will focus on significant societal issues as represented through the storytelling of Peabody winners…
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My Black History: The Cash Money-Ruff Ryders Tour Changed Me Forever
Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…
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OneUnited Bank, Black Lives Matter Team Up to Organize Black America’s Spending Power
Elected officials, businesses and society in general can sometimes find it easy to overlook voices of protest that call for equality and justice. One thing that is seldom overlooked, however, is money, and black America has a lot of spending power to throw around—about $1.2 trillion. Now OneUnited Bank, the largest black-owned bank in America,…
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Stream of Consciousness: Stay Woke for Black History Month With Netflix and Hulu
The TV powers that be have finally seen the light that black on-screen makes green. However, it was the brilliance of the internet not only to know this first but also to bring it to you in various packages, for your viewing pleasure, at your own convenience. Online-streaming services like Netflix made it easy for…
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Living With History: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington Heir Saw the Burden and Beauty of His Ancestors’ Legacies
Editor’s note: For Black History Month, The Root is speaking to the relatives of our most cherished African-American heroes in a series called Living With History. Today we feature Kenneth B. Morris Jr., a descendant of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and educator Booker T. Washington, and spoke to him about how the family are keeping their…
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Kassandra Frederique, Drug Policy Alliance’s Black History Month Series Visionary, Talks Owning Our Narratives [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Mike Pence Gave a White Man a Shoutout for Black History Month
After Donald Trump’s Black History Month speech and proving to the world that he knows nothing about Frederick Douglass, you’d think his vice president, Mike Pence, would keep his Black History Month comments simple or not say anything at all. But, of course, neither of those happened. Pence made sure his tweet reminded people that…
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For Your Evening Laugh: #TrumpOnBlackHistory
This hashtag needs no further explanation, especially if you’ve already read the article by The Root’s Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett. I’m pretty sure these are going to go on for the rest of Black History Month.