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10 Drake Songs Matt Barnes Was Probably Playing While Driving to Fight Derek Fisher
Two thoughts immediately came to mind as I was reading about how Matt Barnes drove 95 miles to confront and fight Derek Fisher for hanging out with Barnes’ estranged wife, Gloria Govan. First: On the list of the “bout it”-est light-skinned black men of all time, considering Barnes’ history, he has to be No. 1…
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From Crack House to Cocaine Apartment: The Privilege of Dying While White
With a bit of trepidation, I’m addressing the story of Kiersten Rickenbach Cerveny, the married doctor and mother of three who was left unconscious in the lobby of an apartment building she did not live in and was pronounced dead by medics shortly after she was found. While the cause of death hasn’t been determined,…
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Empire Recap: Down in the Gutter
So, what was that all about? The show has been all over the place lately. The season premiere featured Cookie giving a speech about the so-called justice system while wearing a gorilla suit, a stream of pointless cameos and Chris Rock as the least convincing cannibal kingpin around. Last week’s episode was surprisingly fresh and…
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Just Sex: The Root Answers Your Most Intimate Questions
Have you found yourself going through the motions in the bedroom? Does your partner not seem as stimulated as he or she once was? Has a recent medication changed your sexual responsiveness or caused physical changes that make lovemaking uncomfortable? You’ve got questions, but are you too embarrassed or too uncertain about whom to ask…
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15 Urban Farms and Activists That Are Changing the Way We Eat
Martin Johnson writes about music for the Wall Street Journal, basketball for Slate and beer for Eater, and he blogs at both the Joy of Cheese and Rotations. Follow him on Twitter.
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Sister Suffragette: ‘Slave’ T-Shirts Highlight White Feminism’s Race Problem
I wasn’t going to write about the white women wearing their white T-shirts to promote the white film about white feminism, but my black feminism wouldn’t allow me to ignore it. Meryl Streep stars as British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in the film Suffragette, which is set to premiere in the United States later this…
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My Boyfriend Asked Me to Move in, but Now He Says He Needs More Space. Is This the End?
Four months ago, my boyfriend asked me to move in. He even went and purchased furniture for my own personal glam room. Yesterday he said he “needed space” and we spend too much time together. We both work from home. I never moved completely in, but I feel hurt that he said he needed space.…
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50 Years Later, The Autobiography of Malcolm X Is Still a Must-Read
“You know that devil’s not going to print that!” That is what Malcolm X, a minister in the Nation of Islam, said to a freelance writer named Alex Haley in 1963 as they sat in a Nation of Islam restaurant in Harlem. Haley and Malcolm spent a large part of several days in that restaurant,…
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Why Men and Women Don’t Speak the Same Language About Money
Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
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The Life of Grace Lee Boggs, a Leader in the Black Power Movement
Grace Lee Boggs, who died Monday at the age of 100, knew every major black leader and luminary worth knowing from the 1930s to the 1960s, and a little beyond. Here’s some proof: She and her husband, fellow activist Jimmie Boggs, assisted Malcolm X and saw him whenever he was in Detroit during the short…